“Constitutional Convention”, think about it.  I'm not claiming to be an expert or political clairvoyant but, four years ago, I decided that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were too corporate and militaristic to vote for with a clear conscience; so I wrote in Bernie Sanders for president. Even in progressive circles I feel that most people would say I wasted my vote. Look how far Bernie Sanders came since 2012 championing causes I believe in! History now proves that weapons sales and waging war for profit, corporate hijacking of every aspect of our lives, has continued with vengeance under Barack Obama. It is now obvious that the people who voted for Romney or Obama wasted their votes. Why will I write in “Constitutional Convention” in the presidential slot on November 8^th? Here is my short list of grievances:

*In spite of the lofty wording of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, concerning the rights of all men; the majority of the signers were land owning slave holders who practiced genocide against the Native Peoples and had no intention of granting those said rights to anybody but themselves let alone to women.

*This government, this dirty business, operating as the USA, has almost continually, since it's founding, maintained allegiance to private international banking interests granting them unconstitutional Charters and Acts allowing a monopoly over our monetary system to profit off the trade of our own mutual goods and services.

*The lawmakers have granted citizenship rights to their corporate entities to award immunity to each other, relieving themselves from personal criminal liability, responsibility for actions against the best interests of the vast majority.

*This government promotes war and civil unrest world wide to maintain high profit margin from their military industrial complex investment portfolios.

*They have corrupted the court system and reduced it into a mechanism through which justice is bought rather than decided by an impartial judicial branch under a valid constitution.

*A legitimate 21st century government should be based upon a constitution including democratic rights of the majority of people to determine the laws and appropriation of public funds which they live under. The new constitution must include national people's referendum and recall rights to protect in insure the health well being and longevity of it's people and ecological natural life sustaining systems.

Therefore in hopes and humble action toward building a true humane egalitarian democracy upon the smoldering ashes of a crazed pathologically criminal capitalist cabal experiment gone bad, I will continue to write “Constitutional Convention” in the presidential slot on the ballot, the only place and time any facade of democratic majority power, is given to 'We the People' of this country; until we achieve a more perfect democratic form of governing ourselves.

Ken Driessen

Hayward