We, the people, don’t declare war and we don’t make the peace, but we’re the ones who fight the battles, the ones who shed our blood and die on foreign soil. And for what? Wars don’t help people. They help corporations by keeping the oil flowing. But you’ve let your young men be sent to war, and then turned away when they come back broken. Well, you can’t turn away any longer.

We’ve shown you what war is truly like. It’s death. It’s destruction. It’s random and cruel. It’s broken bodies, broken minds, broken hearts.

It’s true that today some will have lost loved ones because of what we’ve done. But you won’t be the first mother to lose a kid, or the first grandparent to lose a grandson or granddaughter. And at least these deaths will have meaning. People will look back and say today was a turning point.

We have been forced to shed blood to make you wake up. To show you that the current system can’t be reformed. It can only be blown up.

People of America, rise up. You can start with small acts of defiance, like no longer amassing piles of crap. Or you can go out and sow some destruction of your own. You can help open more eyes. The only way to truly reform the current system is to shed blood.

It’s up to you. Will you be free men? Or socialist wannabe slaves?

And while we’ve killed, we’ve also been merciful. There are many more who still live because of our generosity. And if you want them to continue to live, you’ll meet our demands.

First, all American troops must be withdrawn from the Middle East.

Second, all veterans must be provided with jobs and housing and financial assistance.

Third, the political system must be reformed so that politicians may no longer accept more than fifty dollars from any individual or corporation.

We know it will take time to accomplish these goals.

As an interim step, you need to do the following.

The message needs to be broadcast nationally. In addition, our friends Eric Piercy, Isaac Mayakovsky, and Joshua Pritchard have to be released from Sheridan federal prison and taken to the Aurora airfield. And you need to provide us with a bus, so that we can take the hostages to the airfield. Once we’re there, you will give us a plane and a pilot, at which point we will give you half the hostages. And then when the plane lands, we will release the remaining hostages from the plane.

And know this. We will not release a single hostage until our demands are met. And we will kill ten hostages for any of us who is killed.

We Told You What Would Happen

WE TOLD YOU WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

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