I read this in a political comments section online, from a person simply identified as "Bob." It's a good read. -- FB
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I received this e-mail statement and the content really upsets me. We as a country are losing our way BIG time and I am truly concerned.
If you've been suspicious that your government has been overtaken by the internationalists and globalists but couldn't be quite sure, then as of March 7th, all your questions have been answered. There is no longer any doubt, any more.
It has.
In stunning testimony before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey both indicated that international permission rather than congressional approval provided the legal basis for any military action taken by the United States.
In fact, Defense Secretary Panetta actually stated that the military and executive branch would decide when military intervention was necessary based on NATO or UN resolutions, and then come before Congress and inform them of their decision, much like they did in Libya.
To say that Senator Sessions was stunned at their testimony would be an understatement. Reminding them that military use authorization rested with Congress, and that all legal authority to authorize military action rested with Congress, Senator Sessions again asked them if they believed that international law trumped constitutional authority in the defense of the United States. Like the good little politician that he is, Panetta weaseled and waffled around his answer, but in the end, could not hide his progressive, globalist beliefs that the international community dictated the use or non-use of American armed military forces and that Congress had no say in the matter.
This really shouldn't surprise anyone. The globalists have been taking over ever since the early 1900s. First we had the League of Nations, a disjointed and toothless organization. However, after WWII, the United Nations replaced it, learned from its predecessor's mistakes, and organized a more formidable organization that was intent on global control.
And true UN sycophant that he is, Obama has been defying Congress, side-stepping Congress and congressional authority, and has misused his position as Commander-in-Chief to authorize military action in countries we had no business being in, all at the direction of the United Nations and international community. For a president that campaigned so heavily against the Iraq war in 2008, wailing about the travesty of our troops being over there, he sure has been quick to call out the troops for any little skirmish for which his handlers tell him they are needed.
Absolute power corrupts... absolutely.
However, I have much larger concerns than the executive branch. We have three branches of government, and in fact, the executive branch is the weakest of those three. Next to the executive, we have the judicial branch, and we already know that the judicial branch has been corrupted. Instead of ruling strictly on the basis of the Constitution, our judges now take international law into consideration in their rulings. These men and women sit in our courts all over this country, trained and educated at the progressive schools which have graduated the likes of Obama, the Clintons, and the Bushes, globalists all.
No, what concerns me is our Congress. Where are they in all this? It appears that they have become a castrated lot, with their tongues cut out. They hold all the power. They have the ability to correct this. Why aren't they doing anything? Don't you wish we had a Congress such as the one in Honduras in 2009 which acted legally and swiftly, in concert with their Supreme Court, to depose a president who was attempting to circumvent the law and making pathways to establish himself as a dictator for life? (I know, they later capitulated to international pressure, but for one brief moment, they were a shining example of possibility.)
When the president appoints czars with no congressional oversight, where is the Congress? When our military is used for international actions without the consent of Congress, where are their voices? When onerous rules and regulations are implemented by agencies without the backing of law, why don't we hear their protests in defense of the American people whom they are supposed to represent?
Their silence is deafening.
I fear for our country. No longer are we one people. The politicians have successfully divided us along racial, ethnic, financial, economic, religious, and political lines. They have created an atmosphere where we are so busy fighting one another that we can't focus on the descent into totalitarianism that our country is suffering.
I can't believe that he disarmed active military in a freaking war zone so that he could talk to them. I'll bet dollars to donuts his personal security force wasn't disarmed though. I'm really glad there wasn't a security breach while these guys were told to lay down their arms. Complete stupidity! I can't begin to imagine how demoralizing this must have been for these guys who were told they weren't worth to keep their arms with them for this little talking to. I don't thing George Orwell would ever have thought to write about a Secretary of Defense who disarms his own military in an active war zone.
At least give the guy a chance; he's one of the few truly HONEST politicians you'll ever meet, and his belief in the correctness of our Constitution has never, ever wavered.
Nope, I don't agree with everything he says, either.
But I DO agree with what he has to say about the Congress. Please listen:
Gotcha. Just thinking out loud. I'm still tempted to vote for him in the primary to help send a message. He won't win, but enough votes can make an impression. He's on the cusp of that now.
