# What I Learned By Being a Protester.

** I once participated in a protest against military drones at Creech AFB, near Las Vegas, with fellow Veterans for Peace members and other groups, such as Code Pink. The passion and dedication of those people were inspiring, but I came away with the feeling that the whole protest was little more than an insignificant bug on the windshield of an enormous war machine. The military will not be swayed.

Our only hope for a sane world is to somehow awaken humanity to the fact that we are, in fact, gripped in the matrix of a false reality. The war on terror is nothing more than a money making racket. We think only of the cost of war and never peer outside the box to observe the profits that war provides for the select few. These select few control the media and the government, and as a result, they control our perception.Television is the main program that infects our minds with fear, division, and hatred of the manufactured enemy.

If we, individually, were to reflect in solitude, we would never want to see anyone's pet harmed, or their home destroyed, or their mother or brother killed by military violence, no matter who they may be or where they are from. We are good people. The programming locks us into groupthink and we become separated from our higher selves and from humanity. **

#*Break out.

Leave the program.#*