...we have to be concerned with all lives, 
from Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School to Yemen. 
The US military is by far the largest arms dealer in the world, 
and it’s common knowledge that much of its weaponry ends up 
with those that our government calls “terrorists” and claims to be fighting. 
The US calls the terrorists it arms “rebels,” as in Syria, 
or “friends and allies,” as in Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Gun control should begin at the Pentagon.
 
The endless “War on Terror” emerged after 9-11, 
which became the excuse for war as a constant, not an aberration. 
Until we rein in the US’s determination to exert hegemony over the whole world, 
we will continue to see blood spilled here while, at the same time, our missiles rain down 
on innocents in the name of specious “humanitarian intervention” and stopping terrorism. There is an irony to the US invoking the term “humanitarian intervention,” 
as it publicly abandons and scorns international law, 
bombing civilians and even hospitals.

I counted ninety geographically distinct manifestations of the Democratic Party 
promoting their participation in the March for Our Lives, 
and all the march and voter registration logos and banners were blue. 
Your thoughts on that?

The Democratic Party contained the message and excluded the call for peace, 
just as they did with the two Women’s Marches. 
It is counter-intuitive that a women’s march and a students’ march 
wouldn’t talk about peace, 
with the US at war in at least seven countries and no end in sight. 
But the Democrats, who promoted the Women’s Marches and the March for Our Lives, 
are a pro-war party. Peace is not on their agenda. 
War is a bi-partisan policy because, according to Wall Street, 
war is good for business, 
and that’s who controls our government.

At the beginning of his second term, 
after the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 
Obama said that he would address gun control and sounded convincing. 
A year earlier, in 2011 he had bragged, 
"In fact, my administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners—
it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks 
and wildlife refuges."



i got this from black agenda report. it's how i felt watching the march for our lives, it was contained coded message at a democratic get out the vote rally. not a word off message, not a word on militarized schools or murderous wars for the empire of absolute power. they used these kids to parrot the democratic party line, business as usual, the status quo of global violence.