“I served 7 years in the Army overseas, to include one year as a combat medic in Iraq for 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (2003-2004),  six months as a triage coordinator and nursing assistant in Pakistan for 212th M.A.S.H. (2005-2006), one year teaching combat first responder medicine to deploying soldiers in Kuwait (2006-2007), and 2 months stabilizing critically wounded soldiers in Landstuhl hospital, Germany (2009). I have received numerous decorations to include the Meritorious Service Medal, 3 Army Achievement Medals, the Humanitarian Service Medal, and the Global War on Terrorism Medal to name a few. 

Upon returning to the United States after 7 years of absence I found a nation without healthcare or education options for my countrymen while Washington continues to wage a war of aggression against the civilians of small countries half a world away. Tax monies are poured into a defense system whose activities are ironically compromising the national security of our civilians. The profits of a tiny group of corporate elite are protected by a military and police force who are now pushing our neighbors from their homes. My action at the Cruz home was not one of disobedience; I have sworn to protect my country from enemies both foreign and domestic, and challenging a stolen police state is obedience to this oath. I call upon my countrymen to address the corruption born of a society whose classes are so drastically separated, and I believe unionizing the working people of America in a Socialist, self-governing system to be an urgent matter of ethics and national security. My hope is that small-scale activist action will awaken the American giant in non-violent unity. We must take back control from the darkness that has driven our nation while we were sleeping. Solidarity.”