Both parties wage war abroad without remorse

Editor,

I shall vote for no one for U.S. president — I oppose all war. I oppose all weapons of wars. I oppose anyone joining any nation’s military to wage war. So why would I vote for any candidate to be commander in chief of the U.S. military? I refuse to authorize any candidate to commit mass murder in my name. I know of no past U.S. president who publicly repented and apologized for his atrocities before he died.

When I first moved to Albuquerque in June of 1970, I was completing my two years of nonmilitary community service as a conscientious objector under the draft during the Vietnam War. I have paid no federal income tax for war for 33 years. For me as a conscientious objector to all war, paying federal income tax to train and equip others, largely the poor and people of color, to become professional hired killers to murder on command with no conscience would be more evil than being a soldier myself.

I shall vote for Jeanne Pahls for Congress and Robert. L. Anderson for Senate. Both are write-in candidates. Both are committed, longtime activists for peace.

There is not a dime’s worth of difference between most Republicans and most Democratic members of Congress concerning robbing and murdering our neighbors abroad. Both the Republican and the Democratic parties are drenched with the blood of millions they have robbed and murdered in many nations for many decades.

The United States is less than 5 percent of the world’s people but steals and hogs 25 percent of the world’s wealth.

I lived well all of 2011 on $4,441 for my total expenses — rent, food, etc. — less than half of the U.S. poverty level and the federal income taxable level for me as a single person. I have never received food stamps.

I vote my conscience every day by living simply to boycott greed and war.

Don Schrader
Daily Lobo reader