This election, we cannot stop the Bush-Kerry gang of 300 billionaires from continuing to wage World War III in Afghanistan and Iraq for four more years.

But we can make a difference to Americans whose lives will be sacrificed in this dastardly scheme by opposing draft slavery and perhaps stopping the expansion of World War III to Iran, Nigeria and Sudan, by giving our support to the "other" candidates for president: Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party or Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party. They are both anti-war, both a Bill of Rights-ist, both on the ballot and neither are billionaires. They're not even millionaires; they are plain, ordinary people like you and me. Please check out www.badnarik.org or www.peroutka2004.org .

It doesn't take a George Washington to see that American-powered British Empire is in direct contradiction to America's reason for being. Give the turncoat "one party" Demo-publicans the boot and reclaim America by voting Badnarik or Peroutka. Until the Demo-publican monopoly is ended, we will continue to be subjected to the whims of their billionaire bosses.

**published in The Chronicle Telegram on October 5th, 2004.**