By Michael Smith (Veshengro)
This new authorization will not even require the President to show any threat to the national security of the United States. The American military could become the world’s cop, and could be sent into harm’s way almost anywhere and everywhere around the globe.
Before the vote, the House debated an amendment that would have struck out the worldwide war provision. That amendment to the bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of representatives: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Given the enormity of the proposed law, one would have expected that the House would have debated the amendment to strike it extensively, but that’s not what happened.
The amendment was debated for a total of 20 minutes. Yes, you got it right. Twenty minutes to debate whether Congress should hand the executive branch sweeping worldwide war authority.
The vote on the amendment took place earlier that afternoon, and it failed on the House floor by a vote of 187-in favor to 234-opposed.
Now this bill is, obviously, headed for the Senate and the Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled to begin its markup of the NDAA beginning on June 13. If it passed the Senate also in such an unopposed manner then the US is set to hand the executive branch the powers of a king.
Coming to think of it, in reality, the US President is an elected king bar for the name and with the aid of executive orders he can, in fact, rule as an autocrat if he so wishes.
Most people are totally unaware of that situation and also of the way that the President of the Union is, actually, elected. Americans believe that they directly elect their President but nothing could be further from the truth. It is a conclave, the Electoral Commission, which elects the President in a manner similar to the election of the Pope in the Vatican.
Hmm... who would have thought...
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