Congress To Vote On Declaration of Worldwide Perpetual War With No Borders And No Clear Enemies
The United States Congress is set to vote on legislation that authorizes the official start of World War 3, a worldwide war against an invisible enemy that can reside in any country the U.S. Government chooses.
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By Alexander Higgins with excerpts from Alex Thomas
May 15th, 2011
The legislation authorizes the President of the United States to take unilateral military action against all nations, organizations, and persons, both domestically and abroad, who are alleged to be currently or who have in the past supported or engaged in hostilities or who have provided aid in support of hostilities against the Untied States or any of its coalition allies.
The legislation removes the requirement of congressional approval for the use of military force and instead gives the President totalitarian dictatorial authority to engage in any and all military actions for an indefinite period of time.
It even authorizes the President the authority to launch attacks against American Citizens inside the United States with no congressional oversight whatsoever.
Just to recap, because that was a mouthful:
- Endless War – The war will continue until all hostilities are terminated, which will never happen.
- No Borders – The president will have the full authority to launch military strikes against any country, organization or person, including against U.S citizens on U.S soil.
- Unilateral Military Action – Full authority to invade any nation at any time with no congressional approval required.
- No Clearly Defined Enemy – The US can declare or allege anyone a terrorist or allege they are or have been supporting “hostilities” against the US and attack at will.
- Authorization To Invade Several Countries – The president would have full authority to invade Iran, Syria, North Korea, along with several other nations in Africa and the Middle East and even Russia and China under the legislation all of which are “know” to have supported and aided hostilities against the United States.
The America Civil Liberties Union writes:
New Authorization of Worldwide War Without End?
Congress may soon vote on a new declaration of worldwide war without end, and without clear enemies. A “sleeper provision” deep inside defense bills pending before Congress could become the single biggest hand-over of unchecked war authority from Congress to the executive branch in modern American history.
President Obama has not sought new war authority. In fact, his administration has made clear that it believes it already has all of the authority that it needs to fight terrorism.
But Congress is considering monumental new legislation that would grant the president – and all presidents after him – sweeping new power to make war almost anywhere and everywhere. Unlike previous grants of authority for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the proposed legislation would allow a president to use military force wherever terrorism suspects are present in the world, regardless of whether there has been any harm to U.S. citizens, or any attack on the United States, or any imminent threat of an attack. The legislation is broad enough to permit a president to use military force within the United States and against American citizens. The legislation contains no expiration date, and no criteria to determine when a president’s authority to use military force would end.
Of all of the powers that the Constitution assigns to Congress, no power is more fundamental or important than the power “to declare War.” That is why, in 2002, when Congress was considering whether to authorize war in Iraq, it held fifteen hearings, and passed legislation that cited specific harms, set limits, and defined a clear objective. Now, Congress is poised to give unchecked authority to the executive branch to use military force worldwide, with profoundly negative consequences for our fundamental democratic system of checks and balances. Once Congress expands the president’s war power, it will be nearly impossible to rein it back in. The ACLU strongly opposes a wholesale turnover of war power from Congress to the president – and all of his successors.
Coalition Memo to the House Committee on Armed Services Regarding a Proposed New Declaration of War
Comparison of 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and Proposed Expanded Authorization
The offending text uses doublespeak to declare perpetual war.
Specifically, the text uses the phrase “affirms” armed conflict which is the terminology used by congress to declare war in every instance since World War 2.
Congress affirms that —
(1) the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces and that those entities continue to pose a threat to the United States and its citizens, both domestically and abroad;
(2) the President has the authority to use all necessary and appropriate force during the current armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note);
(3) the current armed conflict includes nations, organization, and persons who—
(A) are part of, or are substantially supporting, al‐Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners; or
(B) have engaged in hostilities or have directly supported hostilities in aid of a nation, organization, or person described in subparagraph (A); and
(4) the President’s authority pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107–40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) includes the authority to detain belligerents, including persons described in paragraph (3), until the termination of hostilities.
Indeed, the moment we all feared has come before us as Congress is set to give the President absolute power over the military, including the authority to launch military strikes within the United States against U.S. Citizens.
With the assassination of Osama Bin Laden on Pakistan soil many were naive enough to believe that the War on Terror would come to an end.
Instead, the reported success of the raid is being used as a crutch to push through new legislation in the defense bills which literally authorize World War 3, an endless war with no defined enemies and no borders.
The whole Osama Bin Laden staged media spectacle was put forward not only in order to install TSA in train stations, malls, and all major public events, it is also being used to convince the public to support endless war all in the name of security.
Short of committing genocide the termination of the hostilities will never come and as such the war will never come to end.
We have already learned that officials falsified reports that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq for the “prize” of oil.
If a whole government of top officials can not be trusted then surely a single president cannot be trusted either.
We have seen the U.S Government turn Nazi and buy and burn every copy of a book that had evidence of a 9/11 cover up. The Department of Justice has already published a memo calling constitutionalists and survivalist potential terrorists.
Is it not bad enough that U.S courts have already legalized the abduction of U.S Citizens along with their indefinite detention and torture in overseas prison camps? Or that the U.S Government openly admits to gunning down, kidnapping and torturing American college students?
Under the definition of the legislation, the President could authorize the military to attack the ACLU building because they have supported the “terrorists” by arguing for their civil rights.
How long will it take before this moves towards assassinating activists?
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The have already labeled conspiracy theories as “dangerous thoughts that could lead to violence” and have even specifically called The Intel Hub, which routinely publishes my articles, an echo chamber pushing out “dangerous thoughts that could lead to violence”.
Uncle Sam openly admits to turning its multi-billion dollar espionage network against U.S Citizens which has produced such great fruits as innocent activists exercising their first amendment rights being placed on the terrorist watch list by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Just remember as long as we are in a state of war your civil liberties and constitutional rights are pretty much null and void, only enforceable if the Government allows you to have them.
Even then, they can declare you a terrorist, an enemy combatant or a threat to national security to revoke your constitutional rights immediately. They then can play the national security card when they are asked to explain their allegations.
All around this is rotten and the first step to getting our rights back is to end the perpetual wars.
Contact your congressman and tell them NO WAY to this egregious bill!!
Note: While some of the groups against this provision are obviously not freedom orientated, it is clear that this bill is 100% against the Constitution.
Its as if the global elite have passed this police state bill to the Neocons and certain Democrats, playing into the left right paradigm, are coming out against it.
It is important for freedom minded Americans to realize that their is always going to be some portion of one of the two political parties against a tyrannical act that the other party is carrying out. This is part of the left right control paradigm.
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The US is in the war business. That will kill the long-forgotten USA. Wake up you stupid, sports-oriented people or you will wake up starving, dying and dead. So, who won the game?
If Congress were to turn Pres. Dover loose on humanity, it should be their last act as free citizens. And Obama should be wheeled into retirement so he can learn some skills, starting with gardening or making bird houses.
Ever since one was arrested and convicted of calling a manlaw pusher a nazi, the world turned upside down, you are all feeling what it is to be persecuted for being truthful, free and right, bless ones sight for seeing this, fight strong.
Hmmm
If this passes the American Republic will soon just be a distant memory. This coupled with the Patiot Acts, the creation by the courts of the corporate “person”,the Trillion dollar “defense” budgut and of course the first domino that fell the Federal Reserve would in fact give the “President” more power that Adolf Hitler hand in 1937. The mechanisms that our founders put in place to ensure that checks and balances have been entirely removed. We have a “president” with the power to order the death of ANY US CITIZEN for any reason he makes up. We have corporations (in this case just another name for a few really rich scumbags) along with the state of Israel in control of the Whitehouse and most of Congress. It is all over people. We are officially just another police state run by the few for the few and screw the rest.
Retirement?? Bird houses?? Why not just suck his junk for him?
You’re so used to these pricks slapping each other on the wrist and getting away scot-free with the slaughter of innocent millions that you don’t even recognize them as being deserving of any real punishment.
They don’t need to retire, or be publicly disgraced. The whole lot of them need to be marched to the guillotine so we can play soccer with their heads.
Right on!!!
Right On is right! time to start building gallows and hoarding rope as well, for those fat turds too chunky to fit in a guillotine with their fat greasy zionist necks.
soon, folks, very soon!
Seem the Albert Pike’s letter of 1871 about three planned World War was not a real after all.
… Here it comes, the elites have paved the way for WW3. And to no surprise, the American people refuse to hear us out. Well, this is what it’s come down to. And no one stood up to them.
The enemy is clearly YOU!
It is written in stone that the GLOBAL POPULATION by 2025 is to be 500,000,000 and the rich will control those people with an iron rod.
It’s too bad that the majority of Americans are more engulfed in pointless sporting events and the next episode of Dancing with the Stars than what is happening to their foregone rights that have been nullified by Washington politicians that you have all delegated your sovereignty to to make all of your decisions for you. WHAT A COUNTRY!
Wake up people, YOU are their next target!
I hate to say it but most Americans truly deserve what is going to happen to them.
I hate to say it, what we’ve got knockin at our door reaches far beyond our country. No one ‘deserves’ what’s going to happen.
Americans are a melting pot of just about every nation if not all, so for anyone to say that Americans deserve what’s going to happen is in effect also saying all of humanity deserves what’s coming. Sadly, what’s knockin on our door is knockin on every country’s door.
Well, it was Americans that voted Obama into office via diebold voting machines…oh yeh, and voted W as well as Clinton in. The great and dreadful day baby!
What amazes me is not that this act is considered. What amazes me is that so many people are failing to connect the dots between the “dead” Osama and a sudden resurgence of violence, murder and death, along with this endless declaration of war, just as people are starting to ask, “Why, if he’s dead, are we still here?.” They can’t win a war on the world, which is exactly what this will declare, and no amount of spin will fool the world to our intentions. Not even the most deranged defense contractor would buy such a proposition as having a chance for victory, so one can only conclude that this is inevitably a means of ensuring America loses this fight. Bully a few people and they might stand up to you, you might take a kick or two but you can move on to other victims. Bully everyone in the schoolyard, and they will realize just how many there are of them, and despite your larger stature, just how small you look in comparison.
It seems the transnational junk-measuring contest has at last proven we are severely lacking in endowment.
“They can’t win a war on the world, which is exactly what this will declare, and no amount of spin will fool the world to our intentions.”
“They” know that. Step out of the forest into the wide open field where the trees don’t partially block one’s view of the field.
This isn’t exclusively an American problem. It’s not hard to see what is in plain view, wrapping around it is another matter. Notice how many all around the world have died in recent years? Just from purported to be natural disasters alone is mind boggling.
Put it in perspective, all this technology fuzzied up as better, more efficient and so on has in effect made a substantial portion of humanity more of a liability than an asset. What does a corporation do with its liabilities?
Governments are run like corporations. The only interests the ones running them serve are their own.
The parallels to George Orwell’s “1984″ are just chilling…Cheers!
So is this suppose to make the US president King of the World? Most Americans might be stupid enough to fall for it, after all they fell for the OBL fairy tale, but I think other nations might not approve. I guess it’s all part of the plan towards WW3. USA USA USA…..LOL
Everybody gone crazy?? This is JUST a POST! Who wrote it? WHAT Congressional Bill NUMBER?? Or WHO read Yomama’s MEMO to his henchmen?? The jew ACLU behind this weird NOTE? jew SCARE-A-MONGA for TURD SHEEPLE… WAKE UP, morons, you deserve every bit of this garbage for being SO complacient with your corrupt selected officials!… your alleged ‘servants’. 100 MILLION armed and p*ssed Americans will put an end to any coup attempt by the Zionist Occupation Government in the D.C. Latrine. To the meek and dumb, go change your diapers.
ALL THE INFORMATION ANYONE NEEDS TO FIND THIS INFO IS IN the ARTICLE. It is NOT hard to find!!!
Section 1034 of this document. Page 19
http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/flooraction/Jan2011/hr1540.pdf
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/10/new_war_on_terror
http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=1&threadid=5435561
http://www.feardepartment.com/2011/05/text-of-new-world-wide-war.html
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Comparison_of_2001_AUMF_and_2011_New_World_Wide_War_Authorization.pdf
Yea, Congress may very well be voting theirselves out of existance on this one. It’s looking more and more like the possibility of Martial Law and or even cancelled elections if they pass this.
Obviously the ‘peace-loving’ nation that America once was no longer exists.
Now that Bin Laden is ‘officially’ dead (regardless of when he actually died) the US need to enshrine their imperial agenda into law. Wit no boogeyman to scare the public, the US government organized crime syndicate must come out of the closet and declare their true intentions. Exactly what this insidious bill does. Essentially creating a Monarch with absolute impunity.
“Obviously the ‘peace-loving’ nation that America once was no longer exists.”
The more I delve into history it is an eyeopener. Americans as in we, the People, got swallowed up in the corporation of US of A beginning with what appears to be a foundation of a corporation within the much embraced Constitution. My quantified opinion.
Americans, as in we, the People, are still peace loving for the most part. Is why we don’t see what has been in plain sight all along, yet we had to look for it to find it.
It has naggled me as long as I can remember as to why DC is not a state and further who or what nation it actually belonged to. Why would there be a ‘central government’ as purported to be for America that technically itself was not a ‘state’?
“Essentially creating a Monarch with absolute impunity.”
I’m not so sure we haven’t had one all along. Is it coincidence that the framework of our government is very similar to Parliament? Is a bit that way in Canada too, tho I haven’t explored that in depth.
“US government organized crime syndicate must come out of the closet and declare their true intentions.”
Sadly, thus far looks to me that they did a long time ago as far as declaring their true intentions. We didn’t see it, nor did generations before. Was another war after 1776. We lost that one. Along comes the Constitution not long after.
It? It is only a piece of paper with some ink on it. So what? So is yesterday’s newspaper.
Everyone is deluded into thinking that inanimate objects have strange powers over people to compel them, because of fancy rituals.
Legislation = voodoo, laws = magic spells.
“Legislation = voodoo, laws = magic spells.”
Smart!! And, eyes wide open!!
Good piece. It’s a virtual perpetual motion machine for the benefit of a very sick few.
And you and I; we get to pay for it! And pay and pay and pay….
Word of the Day: TREACHEROUS – See: “BEHIND THE VEIL”
http://notionalvalue.blogspot.com/2011/05/word-of-day-treacherous-see-behind-veil.html
treach•er•ous (trchr-s) adj.
- Marked by betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidious. See Synonyms at faithless.
- Not to be relied on; not dependable or trustworthy.
- Marked by unforeseen hazards; dangerous or deceptive
See minutes 7:00 to 14:00 of “Behind the Veil” Here ( http://notionalvalue.blogspot.com/2011/05/word-of-day-treacherous-see-behind-veil.html ). While the film’s left slant is swayed by the two party narrative; Larry Pinkney’s insight on the Obama brand at 20:40 and “The Republicrats” at 1:39:22 cracks this myth and speaks to the heart of a failed system. If you watch nothing else, see the Chris Hedges speech on hope at 1:45:00.
Uncovered; is a system that affords three wars and tax cuts for the wealthiest few but can’t afford to maintain our national parks or vital services for the most vulnerable among us. While insightful, we cannot endorse the notion that free market capitalism is a failure. It, like our beloved democratic republic and the rule of law has been hijacked and subverted for the benefit of a powerful few. No mater the system or it’s rhetoric; human evolution is marked by man’s struggle for sovereignty and self rule against the tyranny of power and control. “Behind the Veil” exposes a treacherous ploy purchased through, and implemented by, those we trust to represent us….
In March of 2009 Bloomberg reported the Government and Federal Reserve had spent, lent, or committed $12.8 Trillion on the bailouts. Today you can add to this; our continual support of Fanny and Freddy, the Federal Reserve’s ‘Quantitative Easing’ programs at about $100 billion per month and that figure stands near $16 Trillion or higher. Regardless; it is the largest transfer of wealth in human history and it continues unabated and wholly unchallenged.
Meanwhile the Obama administration
* Increases secrecy, blocking more Freedom of Information Act request in 2009 than the Bush administration in 2008. – Huffington Post, March 16, 2010
* Fights for Government immunity in prosecutions for domestic spying . – Electronic Frontier Foundation April 7, 2009
* Extends the Patriot Act without any reforms. – CS Monitor, March, 1, 2010
* Cracks down on government whistle-blowers more than any President in history. – New York Times, June 11, 2010
* Ignoring 70% of Americans who desired Universal Health Care, Obama cuts a secret deal with Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies to kill the watered down public option – while simultaneously campaigning on it’s behalf. – NY Times, March, 16, 2010
* Uses a signing statement (which while campaigning he called unconstitutional and promised would end in his administration) to ignore labor and environmental standards for the IMF and World Bank. -Huffington Post, June 27, 2009
* Gives permits to BP and other oil companies, exempting them from the environmental protection laws – NY Times, May 13, 2010
* Violated his own ban on lobbyist working for the administration and appoints former Monsanto Lobbyist Michael Taylor as America’s food safety czar; which according to Inflection Point is like making the Big Bad Wolf Little Red Riding Hood’s legal guardian
* Launches FBI raids on antiwar activist in Chicago and Minneapolis – Democracy Now, Sept. 27, 2010
* Illegal wars, Torture, Rendition, and Authorized assassination of US citizens. U.S. Assassination Campaign Continues As CIA Drone Targets U.S. born Cleric. – The Obama administration launched a drone strike in Yemen last week to assassinate a US-born Muslim cleric who has never been convicted of a crime – Democracy Now
* Dramatically increase drone bombers killing thousands of Pakistani civilian’s.
* Ect, Ect.
It’s a double edge sword. Obama! Well, even ardent supporters must admit, like his promise to reform NAFTA, his campaign rhetoric was a vicious ruse. Instead of using the bully pulpit to tell America the truth and ask for support to make real change, he is in league with those he feigned to rail against.
Instead of drawing on his background in constitutional law to reinstate this vital social construct he continues in it’s blatant disregard. At the same time true Republican conservatives have been neutered by sociopathic RINO ‘Republican in name only’ Neocons who have no affiliation to our country or it’s laws; but worship at the church of the lowest production costs; consequences be damned.
‘Behind the veil’ a small amoral clique, unrepresentative of the U.S. population, directs both parties to slice away at our liberties and economic prospects while pushing a foreign policy agenda of increased military intervention, in what will prove to be an unsustainable imperialist expansion.
“by their fruits ye shall know them” – Mathew 7:16
Read the rest Here : http://notionalvalue.blogspot.com/2011/05/word-of-day-treacherous-see-behind-veil.html
“Congress To Vote On Declaration of Worldwide Perpetual War With No Borders And No Clear Enemies.” IF this passes the Congress, they are more delusional than I thought. The article states that “(1) the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces and that those entities continue to pose a threat to the United States and its citizens, both domestically and abroad. What, NOW WE ARE THE ENEMY?! I really think THEY believe that to be true. I just watched a video of a students celebrating the end of the school year at Western Illinois University. These brain-washed cops showed up in RIOT gear (most likely to practice their martial law techniques) and assaulted the students with mace, etc. It was the G-20 Summit all over again. THIS IS NONSENSICAL!
If you want to watch the video of the police assaulting students, do a Google search for “Police admit to “testing” new riot gear on WIU students « Wake-up Call.” This is getting really weird. They are “testing” new riot gear on students???
“Authorization To Invade Several Countries – The president would have full authority to invade Iran, Syria, North Korea, along with several other nations in Africa and the Middle East and even Russia and China under the legislation all of which are “know” to have supported and aided hostilities against the United States.” This is the reason that globalization does not work… nobody can trust anyone anymore. Honor and integrity are just words to many of these leaders. Unfortunately, without these two characteristics, societies become societies that shoot first and ask questions later.
Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says “Congress shall have power to … declare War”.
Yeah well that doesn’t really matter since when bush signed the paper on the north American union there is no constitution legally . I know it says it but when his signed it was NULL AND VOID.
Are you serious?! Congress is considering this shit?!! My God, what is going on with this country?! Don’t these idiots understand that by giving the President unchecked authority, they are turning this country into a dictatorship?! The House is Republican, but what about the Senate? Surely there have to be some clear-thinking representatives and senators in Congress who will oppose this?
This country cannot afford to wage perpetual war. Look where it has gotten us so far. Our jobs are vanishing, our education costs are sky-rocketing, our debt is in the trillions of dollars. What do the elites think we are, the ancient Atlantaean Empire of legend? And even with Atlantis, that did not go so well. The legends say that the Atlantaean invasion of Europe was defeated by the ancestors of the Greeks. Then a great flood swept Atlantis, and it went into the ocean which now bears its name.
Will the United States of America become a second Atlantis?
If Congress even considers passing this legislation then they haven’t even a clue what the Bill of Rights and our Constitution is about and deserve to rot in a the hell of their own making. The Patriot Act, original and revised both previously adopted by both Houses of (our lunatic) Congress, are basically unconstitutional bills of tyranny. So that if this Declaration is even considered by our Congress, these elected elite need to be reeducated or thrown out of office for treason. There is not much else to say on the matter.
>> And You believe all this shit!
Poor America — hoh many of you are out there?
Some with Ph.D.? And I thought I dont like Obama??
––Now I like him better.
any petions for this!?
facebook along with other social media websites will not let you repost this. sad day
I feel compelled to say this despite not knowing this site but you know that almost all other countries enable their heads of state to declare war. Congress is simply doing what the rest of the world has already done. Pretty much any parliamentary system allows (or virtually allows) the Prime Minister to Declare War. It is simply not pratical to allow a room full of people to sit around in a room debating (in some degree public usually) whether to go to war with country x or even with terrorists. I agree with you that perpetual war that has been the case for the past ten years is not a good idea but this type fear mongering on the left just makes us sink down to the level of our opponents.
This is just sick,OUTRAGEOUS,that the obama adminstration,think they can pass a rule that limits everyones free speach no matter were you live in the world.This is not a man but a manifestation of real evil,intent on murdering millions.Obana is one big picec of shit so what you going to do now obama send a rocket over to the uk go on then (WORLD WAR 3)COMING TO A STREET NEAR YOU NOW
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