Waging a Revolution for Liberty and Kicking MSM and Government Ass with Social Media

OKAY, every political activist waging the Revolution for liberty has complained about Facebook and social media because their accounts have been arbitrarily shut down or their posts have been deleted.  Still, social media is and continues to be an incredibly powerful force and in the absence of a big fat bank account, it's really our only weapon because it's cost free activism.

Instead of complaining, we need to figure out how to maximize social media and grow it into an even more potent force.  MSM is bleeding readers and viewers in print and broadcast because the cozy government-MSM complex is busting loose at the seams as a result of the gargantuan growth of independent Internet media.  Independent citizen journalists, websites, bloggers and social media are in the process of rendering MSM obsolete.   We've come a long way since the days of showing up at a Ron Paul rally in 2008.  In fact, we're blossoming into a formidable force that finally has MSM and the government running a tad scared.  Yeah, the tyrants are still in control but their power and influence is growing more tenuous by the day because their crimes against liberty and humanity are finally being exposed.

What should we be doing?  Well, anybody that likes to write or post news should have a blog and/or a website, a Facebook account and a Twitter account.  Moreover, building up your Facebook and Twitter influence is absolutely critical because they combine to exponentially reach thousands upon thousands through shares and retweets.  It's this power of magnification that catapults an ordinary citizen into a super and extraordinarily effective liberty activist that directly challenged government and media power.

Although not everybody wants to blog or run a website, those folks can still wield substantial social media power merely by sharing FB posts, tweeting and Liking the pages of liberty activists because every Facebook 'Like' and 'Share' and 'Tweet' is an act of political activism.  Moreover, FB accounts can be set up to automatically Tweet so building a following on Twitter is an incredible social media magnifier.

If anything, it's the magnifier effect that renders social media such an awesomely powerful force.  Here's an example.

My Judy Morris individual FB account is maxed out at 5,000 FB friends.  However, an individual FB account doesn't really have the reach of a FB page as I recently learned because FB limits friend interactions to 250 or less.  So 5,000 FB friends really doesn't mean that you are reaching 5,000 folks.  However, a FB page is entirely different than a personal page.  FB friend and liberty activist Jerry Titus recently created the Libertycalling.net website as a joint project to built a new liberty media.  We created the Liberty Calling with Judy Morris Facebook page as a companion to the Liberty Calling website.  Both the website and new FB page have been up and running for only a few weeks.  Unlike the 250 reach with the Judy Morris personal account, the Liberty Calling With Judy Morris FB page, according to FB stats, has a reach of:

Total Likes:  583
Friends of Fans: 276,372
Weekly Total Reach: 9,229 as of 5/19

That's way more social media power than I had before I created the new Liberty Calling FB page.

Twitter is a different social media venue but it's powerful because some folks tend to hangout exclusively on Twitter.  Some folks prefer Facebook.  However, reaching out to both is critically important because they magnify each other, especially when FB posts are automatically tweeted.

Here are a few important rules for social media liberty activism:

1.  Always Like as a fan every Facebook page that is related to liberty and that includes Ron Paul supporters, liberty activists, independent voters, Libertarians, constitutionalists, paleo-conservatives, anti-war folks, anti-bankster folks, Austrian economics, voluntarists and every disgruntled Republican or Democrat.  All these folks tend to be very aware of issues, well informed and they crave news and information.  They are the heart and soul of political and liberty activism.

2.  In addition to supporting fellow liberty activists by 'Liking' their FB pages, share and Tweet their posts to magnify the power of information sharing.  This supports independent media by creating Internet hits on their websites and blogs.  Media is a mass marketing volume game and if we fail to grow our own liberty media by supporting each other, we will fail.

3.  Explore Facebook.  Explore Twitter. Explore other social media venues.  There is power in numbers and reach.

We tend to think that as individuals that we are powerless.  But we are very powerful and a few Likes a day, a few tweets a day and a few shares a days makes a huge difference because once something gets rolling in cyberspace, the impact is huge.

Finally, I absolutely am pimping for LibertyCalling.net and Liberty Calling with Judy Morris.  We've got to pimp for ourselves, our work and each other simply because nobody else will.  We aren't bankrolled with MSM dough but we have talent and truth to spread and these days the cost is free and/or cheap.

That's We the People power that has never before existed in human history.  Let's roll with it! 

The G-7 Tax Collectors Cometh!

One of the incredible things that allows nations and American states to prosper economically is tax competition. It's no secret that low tax US states have stronger economies than high tax states. Similarly, low tax nations have much stronger economies than high tax nations. The NWO, the G7 and all the global bureaucrats have been attacking tax competition for years. They want to impose fixed tax rates everywhere, something they call tax harmonization which translates to all nations agreeing to being equally poor, impoverished and economically impotent.

While tax harmonization has been a goal, the global elites are now in an absolute panic because as economies go bust, folks are energizing their survival instincts and going underground. The underground barter/trade/cash economy is beyond the tax collectors reach and it has been estimated that up to 50% of all Greek economic output is underground. Underground economies are rapidly growing in other nations like Spain. Many bureaucrats are even suggesting that all physical paper money be outlawed and that the only allowable money should be traceable electronic bank money. As statism enters its final death spiral, governments everywhere will be in 100% confiscation mode. Nobody's wealth or savings will be safe as evidence by the grand theft in Cyprus.

The G7 is in such a panic that it focused its recent meeting on 'collective' tax collection.  The BBC reports, here:

The G7 summit was an important stepping stone towards a global new standard on tax. 

Translation of government speak:  A new global tax standard will require a new government bureaucracy to facilitate global statist plunder.

That goal is fiendishly complex and to help achieve it a number of countries have agreed to share information on suspected law breaking in both areas of tax law.

Translation of government speak: 'Fiendishly complex' is a code word that means that whatever rules/laws are passed they will be so unclear and incomprehensible that cooperating governments will have the raw and absolute power to just seize whatever they want and without due process.

The G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed that there must be collective action against tax evasion and avoidance, the UK's finance minister has said.

Translation of government speak:  There can be no place on planet earth where folks with money can hide and be exempt from the confiscating arm of government.  Government must be fed at all costs and plunder is the weapon.  Collectivization of all wealth will be complete and arbitrary.

"We must put regimes in place... to deal with failing banks and to protect taxpayers and to do so in a globally-consistent manner," he said.

Translation of government speak:  The Banksters must be protected, bailed out at all cost and the taxpayers and economy be damned.

Britain wants the rest of the EU - including very low tax countries such as Luxembourg and Austria - to sign up to this pilot scheme at next Tuesday's Ecofin in Brussels.

Translation of government speak:  Those nations that don't comply will be punished and face the wrath of the globalists, governments, banksters and possibly even militaries.

Anyway, the above BBC quotes are just a few highlights from the G7 confab and its ruling elites.  Governments are like voracious beasts that need constant feeding.  Underground economies starve the beast and the beast isn't about to just lay down and die.  While it's still standing, it will devour everything in its insatiable path.  

Arrest and Prosecute the IRS and the Dems: How the IRS is Squashing the 1st Amendment

The scandal involving the admission by the IRS that it has specifically targeted groups that advocate for liberty and constitutional governance should be extremely disturbing to every American.  Even more reprehensibly sinister is that Obama and the Democratic Party are at the forefront in the outright assault on the 1st Amendment and political activism.  As the Democratic Party increasingly bares its totalitarian stripes, the sheer horror of it all is quite reminiscent of the Nazi Party, Stalism, Maoism and other ruthless statist regimes.  Of course, I'm not in any way implying that the Republican Party is any better.  The GOP is indeed also responsible for the wholesale squashing of civil liberties.

The Washington Post has even reported on IRS-gate and how the agency is persecuting groups that are critical of the government.

IRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show

While both Republicans and Democrats approvingly seek to invoke the hideous Patriot Act as a pretext to detain, kidnap and torture anybody who is perceived as an enemy of the state, the exploding IRS scandal only adds to the emerging truth that America has morphed into a Nazified Police State, complete with gulags and torture.

The 1st Amendment is unique in that it actually contains 5 specific rights that the Federal government cannot infringe upon:  freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and the freedom to petition the government.  The exact wording of the 1st Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

These are powerful rights that the Federal government has no legal authority to trample.  Yet, the IRS, the Democrats and the Obama regime are tramping every one of them by targeting religious groups and patriot groups for persecution and attempting to squash their right to free speech, their right to politically advocate using media venues, their right to assemble and their right to petition the government.  Moreover, the IRS, an agency under the direct supervision of the Treasury Department, admits to intimidating, harassing and even threatening groups that exercise their constitutional rights.

By any definition, the acts of the government to squash opposition to the government do indeed constitute a blatant infringement of the heart and soul of American styled liberty as defined by the Constitution and its specific limitations of Federal powers.

Accordingly, the government and the IRS-Treasury Department are engaging in criminal activity.  In a sane and just world, the criminals would be brought to justice through criminal prosecution.  But in America today, the Gestapo criminals are above the law, above the constitution and exempt from criminal prosecution for their criminal activities.

Anybody who still believes that America is the Land of the Free is so utterly delusional that they have voluntarily submitted to the militarized federal police state and its Nazi tactics and propaganda.  This is a very bad sign that does not bode well for the future of liberty in a nation that now consistently and openly squashes liberty.

The Huffington Post and MSM Have Launched Disinformation Campaigns Against JFK Truth Tellers.

November 22, 2013 will be the 50th anniversary of the murder of JFK at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX.  Big media journalists are launching books and others are already pimping for the official government version of JFK's murder by marginalizing and dissing the truth tellers and their volumes of research.  The Huffington Post is just another statist progressive rag that worships the state and all its insidious, tyrannical evil. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the 'Puff Post' is relentlessly loyal to the government and is actively complicit in squashing any and all truth surrounding JFK's murder.  The 5/11/13 Puff Post piece by Allen G. Breed acknowledges that JFK researches exist but mockingly dusts them off as conspiracy theorists.

JFK Assassination Leads To Countless Works About 'Truth' And Conspiracies 

As an amateur JFK researcher, I read JFK and the Unspeakable, Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass.  It's a book that I highly recommend because it received critical acclaim by 'real' journalists and JFK researchers.  James Fetzer wrote, here:

Among the vast number of books that have been written about the death of JFK, perhaps none has been as successful at explaining why he was taken out as James Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE (2008). This superb volume traces JFK's evolution from a cold warrior to a man of peace in a gripping, effortlessly readable study of admirable scholarship. In my estimation, this is the single best volume to understand why he died and why it matters.

 The epic work of Douglass is commendable on many levels.  It's meticulously researched and documented.  Besides detailing all that happened on November 22, 1963 and events before and after that mournful day, Douglass expansively delves into US foreign policy and its key players which is the heart and soul of the government's plot to murder a popular sitting president.   With mountains of evidence to back it up, Douglass concludes:

We have no evidence as to who in the military-industrial complex may have given the order to assassinate President Kennedy. That the order was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency is obvious. The CIA’s fingerprints are all over the crime and the events leading up to it.

So why did the Huffington Post totally, willfully and conveniently ignore perhaps the most important, seminal and scholarly book ever written on JFK's murder?  The answer is simple.  The Puff Post, just like everybody else in MSM, exists for no purpose except to function as the government's pimp in chief and that requires massive disinformation and misinformation campaigns designed to protect the government and its secrets by marginalizing truth tellers.  Anybody who directly or indirectly challenges the government's official position on JFK's murder, or anything for that matter, is automatically dubbed a crackpot, a conspiracy theorist and much worse.

Because of the growing presence of an increasingly powerful alternate Internet media, MSM is losing power but it's still very powerful.  Folks are sufficiently delusional to believe all the garbage and propaganda flowing from their favorite left or right wing MSM rags but even that paradigm is showing signs of weakening.  Despite the best efforts of the government and media, the truth is slowly getting out anyway.

While I loved the Douglass book, I didn't love it because he said the CIA did it.  I revere the book for its voluminous and exceptionally crafted  historical value. Douglass doesn't just throw out documented facts.  He carefully weaves documented facts into a compelling and highly credible story that every American should know, ponder and at least think about but in America, thinking and acquiring knowledge is verboten.  We are expected to believe the big brother media version of everything.

The most fascinating aspect of JFK research is the abundance of various theories - the Cubans did it, the mafia did it, the Russians did it, LBJ did it, the military industrial complex did it, the CIA did it and on and on.  That's why JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglas is such a standout blockbuster work.  Douglass is one of the few who carefully and methodically weaved the foreign policy establishment into the story with footnotes and documentation.

Precisely because Douglass took the JFK murder investigation to a new level, he's a threat to establishment government and the media.  That's the real reason why he's ignored.  While other JFK researchers are merely dissed as nutjob conspiracy theory kooks, the media can't diss Douglass as a conspiracy theorist so he's merely ignored.  Even the media backs off when confronted with a truth that it can't refute.

If anything, Douglass proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that conspiracy is no longer theory.

Lies, Lies and More Lies: Benghazi is pure political theater as well as a cover-up.

Benghazi has been resurrected as the hottest buzz of the week. Of course, it's all pure 100% political theater and quite timely as Congressional hearings on the Boston Bombing disclosed some incredibly embarrassing data on how the US National Security State was a big fail in preventing the Boston Bombing despite having knowledge and verification from multiple nations that the Tsarnaev brothers were dangerous radical Islamists with jihad aspirations. Even more interesting is that NBC reported that the Boston Police Chief testified before Congress that they were clueless about the Tsarnaev brothers and were focused on following the Occupy folks. The Occupy folks? Despite having no connections to terrorism, murder or violence, Boston PD and DHS fusion centers dubbed the Occupy folks a dangerous threat worth tracking while ignoring the real threat of known jihadists who apparently have no problem obtaining US citizenship and welfare benefits.

Unaware of Tsarnaev warnings, Boston counterterror unit tracked protesters

In the fall of 2011, a key Boston police counterterror intelligence unit -- funded with millions of dollars in U.S. homeland security grants -- was closely monitoring anti-Wall Street demonstrations, including tracking the Facebook pages and websites of the protesters and writing reports on the potential impact on "commercial and financial sector assets" in downtown areas, according to internal police documents.

The police monitoring of the activities of Occupy Boston -- an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests that swept the country in 2011 -- came during a period after the U.S. government received the second of two warnings from the Russian government about the radical Islamic ties of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

But back to Benghazi.  The Drudge Report, the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, has let loose with some scathing headlines that just don't quit including:
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White House meets privately with press to discuss Benghazi...

ABCNEWS: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference...

Petraeus Expressed Frustration At Altered Account...

ATTORNEY: Whistleblower demoted, threatened...

There can be no question that Benghazi is one giant blame game that was hatched by Republicans to discredit Obama and the Dems.  However, Obama is not blameless.  I blogged about Benghazi in  October, 2012 and provided a lot of background information on the CIA, its nefarious but secretive missions and its long history of being in bed with radical Islamists, below and worth reading.

My Two Cents on Benghazi

However, I'd like to expand the October Benghazi blog post to include even more information.  Benghazi came under attack on September 11-12, 2012, an obviously very significant date that sends chills up and down the spines of Americans.  On November 2, 2012 a British newspaper ran an extensive piece on Benghazi and the CIA:

Benghazi consulate that came under attack by Al Qaeda militants was being used for CIA operations Mail Online

It's no secret that Benghazi was a secret but not so secret and openly known CIA operation, something even the CIA admits.

CIA confirms role in US consulate attack in Benghazi The Telegraph

The US consulate in Benghazi that came under attack by militants on September 11 was mainly a secret CIA operation, shedding new light on the deadly assault.

The Christian Science Monitor reported:

Benghazi fallout: CIA reveals secret intelligence hub was nearby

While the precise nature of the CIA mission is unclear and remains shrouded in misinformation and disinformation, such is the nature of covert operations.  However, among those who astutely understand the CIA and US foreign policy, there is no doubt whatsoever that the CIA was arming Syrian Jihad rebels.

Geraldo Rivera reported on Fox News that his sources confirmed that the Benghazi CIA operation was all about arming Syrian rebels, here, which is something that both Republicans and Democrat neocon warmongers support.

At the end of the day, Benghazi was nothing more than the CIA arming and funding Sunni Salafist Wahhabist jihadists to destabilize Syria and prep the nation for the fall of Assad and another bloody and murderous US intervention, invasion and occupation.

The CIA, an organization that is really nothing more than the private but taxpayer funded military arm of Wall Street, defense contractors, the New World Order and corporatist special interests, has a long history of creating false flag attacks to inspire the American public to embrace outrage as a pretext to march off to yet another war.  The government propaganda machine works 24/7 to romance the American public into beating the war drums and it's all done with the collusion of mainstream media, print and broadcast.

The Gulf of Tonkin fiasco was a classic false flag attacked that LBJ and the CIA engineered to further destabilize Vietnam and justify a US military invasion and massive bombing of a nation that did absolutely NOTHING to harm America in any way. It's well documented and it's definitely worth a Google because the Vietnam horror resulted in the murders of millions of Asians, the napalming of of massive swaths of real estate in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and the deaths of over 58,000 Americans.

As the US continues to beat the war drums to attack Syria, it's invoking chemical weapons as justification.

Anti-Syria hysteria? US pushes chemical weapons claim

US Secretary of State John Kerry said there is “strong evidence” proving the Syrian government used chemical weapons in its war against the militant opposition, a position at odds with recent UN findings.

The official 'lie' has been debunked by various sources in the alternate media because America's mainstream media obviously can't handle the truth but that comes as no surprise considering that MSM is the government's chief propaganda stooge.  In any event, many alternate news sources absolutely reject the US government's official story that it's the Assad regime that is using the chemical weapons.  It's far more likely that the US has provided chemical weapons to the Syrian rebels to use against Syrian citizens and then blame it on Assad.

See for Yourself: Syrian Government Likely Did Not Use Chemical Weapons

Unlike the days of the Vietnam era and pre-Internet days when ABC, CBS and NBC controlled all the news with absolute monopoly powers on all information, these days we do have access to alternative information and news sources that dramatically conflicts with the official version of anything.  Moreover, these sources are proving to be more credible that the media and the government.

We've arrived at an era where conspiracy is no longer theory.  The truth is everywhere and that's got the goon government and its media operatives running scared. With the official Boston Bombing story having more holes than Swiss cheese, it's clearly evident that any amateur citizen journalist can see with a fraction of a brain cell the great fraud being perpetrated upon us.

Benghazi?  It was just a CIA mission gone bad, like Fast and Furious where the government was supplying Mexican drug cartels with military grade weaponry and then blaming the Mexican drug violence on American 2nd amendment rights.

If you really want to read something scary, read the CIA's The Ten Commandments of Counterintelligence, a dot gov link that ends with "If there were ever to be a mascot for US counterintelligence, it should be the pit bull."

The CIA pit bulls have their fangs solidly anchored in everything.  And yes, I owe pit bulls an apology but so does the CIA.  Pit bulls are like adorable kissing puppies compared to the CIA.

Why a Creep Like Lindsay Graham is Sitting Pretty and Probably Won't be Challenged in a Primary

Liberty activists are constantly frustrated by the fact that they can't unseat worthless, warmongering and despicable incumbents in primaries.  Lindsay Graham is a prime example of all that is wrong with our primary and election system, the Republican Party and Republican voters.  Politico did a puff piece on Graham that disclosed a bitter truth, a truth that applies to nearly 100% of Republican incumbents who are nearly impossible to dislodge from their solidly anchored thrones.

Lindsey Graham faces down primary challenge

Graham has repeatedly poked his finger in the eye of the GOP base..... 

Yet a year out from his primary, Graham is in surprisingly good shape. He had over $5.4 million in the bank at the end of March....

Some South Carolina conservatives loathe Graham, and will express as much next year, but right now they’re outnumbered by the ranks of those who like him or at least respect his leadership role. “The 30 percent of the Republicans who don’t like him really don’t like him, but generally speaking Lindsey is very highly regarded back home,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C).

Precisely because the Republican voting base is exceedingly accepting of big government statists and warmongers who stomp on civil liberties, folks like Lindsay Graham are never really threatened.

Then there's the money.  Few challengers have the financial resources or the ability to compete with Graham $5 million plus campaign war chest. MapLight.org reported that the average cost of a US Senate seat is a staggering $10,476,451, or an average of $14,351 that was raised every day during the 2012 election  cycle, here.

Who funds campaign coffers?  Special interests dough owns US elections.  According to Open Secrets, an organization that tracks campaign finance money, Lindsay Graham's top campaign contributors by industry are:

Industry                             Total     Indiv.   PAC

Lawyers/Law Firms	$1,026,779	$894,529	$132,250
Electric Utilities	$434,562	$225,110	$209,452
Real Estate	$371,130	$341,630	$29,500
Lobbyists	$309,379	$302,015	$7,364
Retired	$301,664	$301,664	$0
Securities & Investment	$286,208	$265,208	$21,000
Leadership PACs	$233,500	$0	$233,500
General Contractors	$196,538	$106,038	$90,500
Insurance	$194,800	$83,800	$111,000
Health Professionals	$173,362	$104,862	$68,500
Commercial Banks	$147,710	$52,560	$95,150
Business Services	$146,199	$135,699	$10,500
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$141,619	$86,619	$55,000
Misc Finance	$141,163	$127,663	$13,500
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing	$137,380	$66,980	$70,400
Defense Aerospace	$132,100	$24,600	$107,500
Hospitals/Nursing Homes	$129,936	$51,936	$78,000
TV/Movies/Music	$121,143	$44,467	$76,676
Railroads	$107,250	$6,250	$101,000
Textiles

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00009975&newMem=N&cycle=2012

While it's true that the American people are mostly clueless about campaign finance, they also fail to comprehend that our election system is rigged for the exclusive benefit of special interests and corporations and certainly not for the benefit of We the People.  We the People haven't been a part of the process for decades.

Once you understand campaign finance, you also understand why folks like Lindsay Graham can give We the People the birdie.  After all, he's been bought and paid for and all with the blessing of the Sheeple People voters.

For more on our corrupt to the core election system, see:

The Rot, the Stench and the Filth of Campaign Finance & How to Fix It

How to End the Wars - It really is easy and it's been done before

Americans are somewhat aware that our current crop of wars not only never seem to end but they actually are expanding into other countries.  It's as if the US Military is a global militarized dictatorship that resembles a giant octopus that is enveloping and devouring everything in its deadly path.  The war in Afghanistan has expanded into Pakistan, courtesy of Obama.  Obama launched the war in Libya, engineered the takeover of Egypt by dangerous Sunni Salafist Wahhabist psychopaths and he's arming Sunni rebels in Syria as part of his regime change schemes to topple Assad, a man who has done absolutely nothing to America or threatened us in any way.  We've got the  "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" Republicans and Democrats who are lusting to bomb, nuke, invade and occupy a nation of 75 million folks.  America's foreign policy insanity is on steroids and  continues to multiply exponentially.

Will we ever have peace?  Only if we kill the military industrial complex that lords over us and is devouring our liberty and prosperity as well as reigning terror and death upon numerous foreign nations and innocent people.  American's won't admit it but America is really a military dictatorship.  Our local police forces have been transformed into para-military, federally funded militarized gestapos.

Here's the bitter truth that Americans cannot face:  We murder for defense contractor and Wall Street profits.  If that's not the epitome of a thoroughly debauched and degenerate nation, I don't know what is.

But here's another truth:  Americans have the power to end the wars and the military dictatorship that lords over us with a terrorizing iron fist.

The military industrial complex (MIC) and its enormous powers expanded greatly with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and the US entry into WW I in 1914.  By WW II, the MIC had grown significantly more powerful and by the time the Vietnam War rolled around, America was in its infancy of a full fledged military dictatorship.  Today, we are bearing witness to the scourges of military power and its oppressive tyranny.

So how precisely do We the People end MIC power?  It's really quite simple because it's happened before.  As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960's and expanded into Laos and Cambodia, anti-war sentiments were building strongly in America.  The slaughter of millions of southeast Asians and a rising US military death toll was angering the people.    LBJ's war was such a disaster that his re-election was in jeopardy.  As the situation grew progressively worse for LBJ, he feared the humiliation of a general election or primary defeat so he decided NOT to run for re-election in 1968.  Nixon, a foreign policy hawk,  won the 1968 election.  The Vietnam War resulted in over 58,000 dead Americans but the hawks were determined to wage the Vietnam War for all eternity.

However, Nixon was soon smothered with anti-war Congress Critters who ferociously fought to end the Vietnam War. By 1973, Congress simply refused to fund it.  The American Prospect did an excellent analysis of the Vietnam War and how it ended.

How Congress Got Us Out of Vietnam

...in January 1973, the president knew that he only had a limited amount of time before Congress finally used the power of the purse to bring the war to an end -- regardless of what the administration wanted. Indeed, to make certain that the president could not reverse course, in June 1973 Congress passed legislation that included an amendment sponsored by Church and Case to prohibit the use of more funds in Southeast Asia after August 15. Sixty-four senators voted in favor. When the House assented, its vote marked the first time that chamber had agreed to cut off funds, too.

And that's precisely how the Vietnam War finally ended - it was defunded by Congress when Congress refused to appropriate anymore money for it.  

While presidential war making powers have expanded considerably since the Vietnam War era, what hasn't change is that the president can't wage wars or do much of anything unless Congress appropriates money to fund the wars.  It's Congress that controls the purse strings, not the president.

We the People elect Congress Critters and We the People have the power to fire the warmongers who vote to fund the wars.  With 100 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives, finding information is very easy in the Internet age because voting records and roll call votes are available online.  Moreover, organizations like opensecrets.org have huge databases of political campaign contributions and it's easy to identify the Congress Critters who are wholly owned subsidiaries of defense contractors.

If We the People want peace, it's within our power to achieve peace by not electing anymore warmongers to Congress.

It really is that simple.  It's been done before and we can do it again.  Slaying the military industrial complex is not only critical to world peace and peaceful co-existence, it's absolutely critical to our economy and fiscal stability.  Wars have consumed American prosperity, vastly contributed to our $16.8 trillion in unsustainable debt and are directly responsible for the miserable decline of the American middle class.

It's long over due to end the blood money that flows to Wall Street and defense contractors.  Americans who vote for warmongers definitely have blood on their hands and they are no different nor any less vile than the evil banksters and defense contractors.

Let's do it. No Excuses!