It is quite ironic that the previous Drone-Bomber-in-Chief, Barack H. Obama, has been given the “profile in courage” award, which is being presented to him this week by the JFK Library Foundation. But how much courage did it take for Obama to order the bombings of several different countries, killing mostly innocent civilians, when those countries were of no threat to us?
How insulting to President John F. Kennedy, who promoted peace after recognizing that the post-World War II Cold War and national security state were destructive and unnecessary, and who wanted to “splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
In a June, 1963 speech promoting peace, nuclear disarmament, and diplomacy, Kennedy stated, “No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. As Americans, we find Communism profoundly repugnant as a negation of personal freedom and dignity. But we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements — in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture, in acts of courage.”
The hard-core Cold Warriors probably didn’t like that. Their existence as “security” bureaucrats and their little fiefdoms in Washington were dependent on the fear and paranoia of those “commies,” just as the modern day bureaucrats are dependent on post-9/11 fear-mongering.
And the corporatist cronies back then also probably didn’t like Kennedy’s assertion that “the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need them is essential to the keeping of peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles — which can only destroy and never create — is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.”
Some people believe that the military and CIA have controlled the U.S. government since at least when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
But now there are renewed concerns that the U.S. military may no longer be under civilian control because of the influence all the military generals have on President Donald Trump, who has deferred important military decision-making down the chain of command.
Trump picked generals to advise him because he is enamored with their stars and medals, and seems to have some kind of gut response to their swagger, which might be typical of your average authoritarian like Trump.
But so far there have been bad decisions made by the bureaucrats of the Trump administration: bombing Afghanistan caves and tunnels, which hasn’t affected anything or gotten any ISIS militants, and bombing Syria which may have actually helped ISIS.
I guess we can’t expect bureaucrats (and many others now) to learn from history. The U.S. government’s participation in World Wars I and II seemed to have inflated the egos and hubris of career government and military bureaucrats, their future generations of career government and military bureaucrats, and the institutions they have controlled since then.
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The narcissistic arrogance could be seen in the military bureaucrats when they consciously and knowingly pursued continued aggressions in Vietnam despite their knowing by the mid-1960s that the war could not be won, as revealed by the Pentagon Papers. Those “leaders” contributed to the deaths of a million innocents and tens of thousands of American soldiers who died for no good reason but to serve the deranged egos of the military bureaucrats.
And Iraq in 1990-91, the decision by President George H.W. Bush to start a whole new war and bombing campaign against a country, Iraq, that didn’t attack us and was of no threat to us, was not just an act of incompetence, but a criminal act.
Bush approved of the U.S. military’s bombings of civilian water and sewage treatment centers and electric service facilities, followed by sanctions and no-fly zones that were continued by President Bill Clinton throughout the 1990s which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Iraqis. It was an intentional policy of sadism and psychopathic cruelty, that perhaps involved more sinister long-term goals than just to do with oil.
Who would purposely cause a whole population to be vulnerable to disease and death? Who would do that?
But now we have President Donald Trump, who campaigned with anti-war, anti-imperialism rhetoric, but is now the Happy Warmonger. And Trump’s civilian cabinet advisors include military general graduates from West Point or other top military academies but they aren’t exactly trained in the ideas of restraint, diplomacy, the rule of law, and the U.S. Constitution.
No, post-World War II military people are trained to suppress their consciences, their moral scruples, in order to rationalize their invasions of other territories and the deaths of innocents they cause.
And oh how happy the Trump-advising generals and the other higher-ups in the military must be that Donald Trump is so easily manipulable and spongy. Their psy-ops are working on him like a charm.
It used to be that psy-ops were used by the military and CIA on foreign agents, to manipulate the enemy’s emotions and their decisions. And then the military saw how useful such a technique had been on their own U.S. senators, as reported by the late Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone.
Which is apparently illegal, under U.S. law. Unless they view their own fellow Americans as the “enemy.” Hmm.
Foreign policy analyst Gareth Porter recently tweeted: “Military now seeking permanent US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Time to say loud ‘No’ to permanent war.”
So it’s getting worse now.
Some theorists believe the zealous bureaucrats of the military need permanent war and occupation abroad in order to achieve such a takeover at home. (There may be other reasons, however.)
When the military controls the government, and then there is some kind of emergency or economic collapse, of course they will not think twice about imposing martial law, legal or not, constitutional or not. They will also not think twice about disarming law-abiding Americans.
In Revolutionary times, the early Americans were rightfully wary of militarism, because they knew that would lead to tyranny. But the immoral and incompetent bureaucrats of the modern U.S. government long ago abandoned any concern for the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.
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Sigh. There is no federal government, only a foreign corporation masquerading as it, as it was dissolved permanently being bankrupt and insolvent in 1933, and that corporation owns the military. The Gold Standard and Abrogate dissolved all departments, offices and officers of the Federal Government and it exists today in name only (it’s all illusion, a fictitious entity, not real, and fraud). See just about any of my posts for the legal citations, or I can type them out here again if anyone asks.
And we’re already under martial law rule, so one more time, my comments in brackets… “As we have said the Federal Personal Income Tax is collected under a military venue within a martial law jurisdiction. Federal Reserve Notes are Military Scrip circulated in a Military Venue. The problem is the people don’t understand how the entire United States is in a Military Venue… Under the Social Security Act [1933] there was brought into existence Ten Federal Regional Areas. These Ten Federal Regional Areas [sounds a lot like FEMA regions, yes? That’s because they are FEMA regions and they’re not new as they’d love us all to believe, they’ve been around nearly 100 years : see: gold fringe around the flag which also designates conquered territory and military jurisdiction] are the same as a military base. It is not unconstitutional to circulate “military scrip” on a military base as the base is considered to be a military venue. “Military Scrip”” cannot circulate in the civil jurisdiction of the United States. To get around this Constitutional bar the Congress created Ten Military Venues called “Federal Regional Areas”. The problem the Congress realized was, while Congress could restructure the government agencies into these Federal Regional Areas, the people could not be identified to be within this Military Venue but by their own consent [corporate law operates wholly by consent. we’ve been SOLD out, and it happened a long time ago]. Dyett v. Turner, 439 P2d 266, 269, 29 U2d 403 [1968[ Judge A.H. Ellett, Utah Supreme Court.
Excellent info. I found out Van Buren is also related to the other Presidents. The bloodline is descended from William the Conqueror , Mathilda De Flanders and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Van Burens lineage goes to her first daughter >> Maria Capet.
Bravo! There it is! Thanks so much, well done! You just can’t make this stuff up. 😉
The purpose of the Civil War was to replace the lawful de jure government with an unlawful de facto private government.
Then that makes John Wilkes Booth a patriot. Lol!
Excellent comment. I did look for your other comments and they seem as good as this. Thank you for shedding light upon the scrip thing. I knew about the rest, but that one was obfuscated to me. 1933 was not when this started, however, it was when Abe-ey Baby adjourned Congress without a quorum. That act dissolved the Union. Then, of course, the Act of 1871 incorporated us (lucky us), and then the rest. Correct me if I am wrong, isn’t this a Military dictatorship masquerading as a Legislative Democracy?
Yes, I omitted that, but I knew it’s been since the Civil War and 1871, I just don’t have the legal language yet for it, I’m working on it. But just this information is enough to get people to start thinking critically and using common sense instead of regurgitated indoctrination, so hopefully they start looking into it themselves, which is my goal.
It seems if you don’t add that solid evidence to posts people assume it’s just your opinion, and a crazy one at that. But no one can argue with facts like that, and they don’t, which makes my job easier (to expose them and move on and expose them somewhere else). I have no time to debate people; our time is short!
Regarding your question, well, in my opinion, it’s nothing but a fraud, really, it doesn’t even exist, because corporations are nothing but creatures of the mind, but what you say is quite accurate by description. We are no more a democratic republic than I am Elle Macpherson. 😉 I think it’s imperative to show people how they’ve been deceived over time, which is very empowering.
“We are no more a democratic republic…”
We are not a democratic anything, nor have we ever been. The government of the USA is a constitutional republic, and it is in writing. It is the US Constitution and all that is in Pursuance thereof it, PLUS each states Constitution as the sovereign nations they still are, included is the Declaration of Independence. (the only “democratic” process we have is elections, and those have been corrupted.)
The US Constitution is a COMPACT between the states, and it is the CONTRACT that all who serve within our governments are under, and to make that a stronger bond, they are Oath bound to.
The Declaration of Independence says that the American colonies of Great Britain had become “free and independent states” — separate states. The U.S. Constitution refers constantly to the states, but never to a “nation”; and this is a fact we should all be aware of. Contracts and compacts are not broken by those who work against them from the inside – Traitors. But the people can be deceived into believing a lie or two easily enough when propaganda, food, drugs, subliminals, etc are used against them.
Bertrand Russell,1953: “… Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible…” (“The Impact of Science on Society”, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1953)
Contracts are “null and void” when they are not followed, or fraudulently created by those who have no lawful authority to do so. So what you say is correct, but that is NOT what is ending, and to some, ended our Constitutional Republic, it was the dumbing down of the people.
JFK, at Yale University, June 11, 1962: “For the greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
So have YOU read the US Constitution? Do you understand it? Have you read the framers debates when creating it? If not, why not, before you give up?
Here are some questions; WHO does the US Constitution charge with the duties of enforcing it, and the state Constitutions? The Laws of our land which are in Pursuance thereof it? Defending our borders?
The Militia has as its constitutionally assigned duties to:
— Enforce the US Constitution (Supreme Law of this nation) and each state’s Constitution (Highest Law of the state),
— Enforce and keep the “Laws of the Union” (which are constitutional laws ONLY),
— Protect the country against all enemies both domestic and foreign, and
— “to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”.
So who is the Militia? We are.
George Washington: “It may be laid down, as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of
a free government…, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.” (“Sentiments on a Peace Establishment”, letter to Alexander Hamilton; “The Writings of George Washington”)
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel invasions.“
Those that serve within the state and federal governments have duties TO and FOR the Militias;
Clause 16: “To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the
Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress”.
What are the three branches of the American government? The First branch is “We the People of the united States”. We created the states, and our governments. The second branch is the states. The third branch is the “federal” government which was created to be the representatives of the states in dealing with mostly foreign affairs.
Our type of governments is partly based on the teachings of Jesus Christ; Jesus,
Matthew 20:25: “…the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.”
This is THE reason that in America the US Constitution and each state’s Constitution
basically are the governments, while it is the people who SERVE within those governments are there to carry out the duties put into writing within the Constitutions. The delegated authority is to the three BRANCHES and a few named offices within a branch, not to any person. That way, the people can be, and are required to be, changed a lot so as to not get power hungry. When they leave governmental service, which ever office or branch they served in, which ever position they occupied, high or low, that authority is withdrawn from them and they are forbidden to use it.
In the contract that they serve under – elected, hired, contracted, etc – they are required to take an Oath to support and defend the US Constitution above and before the orders of superiors – if any, and before the duties of the position occupied; that Oath makes it their PERSONAL responsibility for everything and anything they do while serving. So if they go beyond the authority delegated to the position they occupy, then it is a crime, and whatever that action is will not be binding on the American people or the USA.
So if a Treaty is created that is not in Pursuance thereof the US Constitution as is required of ALL legislation, then that treaty is NOT binding on the American people or the nation. What authority those who serve within our government has is in writing, is easily available to all, so before that treaty was signed, the other party had easy recourse to discover if the person being dealt with even has that authority to do so.
Lets now move to the NDAA, is it constitutional? NO, but it is enforced by those who are either ignorant of our laws or willing to be a *terrorist against their own nation.
*28 C.F.R. Section 0.85 Terrorism is defined as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”.
Now it is also important to understand that the Militia in order to be a LAWFUL Militia must do there things; they must be trained as the Congress requires the military to train. They must be educated in the US Constitution because they can and are required to be used by both the federal and state governments for those things listed above. They must be educated in their own state’s Constitution.
Etc
Constitutional republic….. is……….where only the legal citizens can vote in elections.
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Democracy ………………….is……… where illegals can also vote in the elections.
look it up.,…
No, a Constitutional Republic means that the DUTIES and AUTHORITY of those who serve within our government is listed in writing for them to follow. Elections are the people’s voice, not illegals, not those lawfully allowed to be in our nation for whatever reason.
Corrupt elections are crimes against the American people. Political parties are what our framers called “factions”. We are not supposed to have factions because they divide the people, usually on pretenses, bring in foreign influence, etc.
George Washington on factions in his farewell presidential speech: ‘The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a
facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its
bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.” (end Washington quote on factions)
John Adams: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
John Adams: “Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
nope
It was planned all along. The Ashkenazi Dynasty funded the 1776 war to George and the clans…as if they didn’t know? Ben Franklin was too smart not to. Alexander Hamilton was a Rothschild agent overseeing the process.
utah ruined america ?
Other than citing an extreme court decision, which happens to contain some factual errors – the US did not go bankrupt in 1933, it actually just raised the income tax on the very wealthy, who were still making a lot of money, to cover the costs of the New Deal because they would not do the same things with their money which were in the best interests of the people, so by merely doing what was best for the people, at probably lower profits, they could have done the same things. My grandfather was a contractor for the WPA, and built the bridges over the small steams and irrigation canals in the area. He used the government’s money to hire men who were unemployed to do something that was in the public interest which had no profit potential with public roads and bridges. My dad worked on trail building crews which were seasonal, and got paid a whole $25.00 plus room and board, working for the USDA Forest Service and Department of Interior in Rocky Mountain National park. Things that are still in place and in use with seasonal repair for the public good. The number of visitors to Diasauer National Monument in NW CO grew by 1 million visitors who spent more money on motels, restaurants and gasoline in that are to partially replace the income lost when the strip mines closed. The strip mines
The same took place in Utah at about the same time with more to come later, such as Bears Ears. It has the most National Parks and Monuments and Recreational areas of any state in the US. At the time all of these areas were made into Federal sites, by default, since no one had claimed them under any of the applicable government give aways of public land such as the Land Grant Act, the Federal mining laws, etc. They were just places of natural beauty which the various Presidents considered worth preserving as they were for the people to enjoy for ever. We have to remember, that at the time, there were not the public highways that are here today to bring the tourists to and from these places, so there was no market for the land. Now that the infrastructure is there to bring the money to the sites, there is or would be a demand for private development which would greatly interfere with the rights of the non-land owners to visit. The last time I visited Canyon Lands National Park, the paving ended less than a mile off of the main paved road, and then there seems to have been about 50 miles though some land that could not have supported either people or agriculture on a permanent basis, before the ‘camp ground’ which was totally undeveloped except for an port-a-potty, and maybe a picnic table. Since then, about 20 years, I would expect that it has been improved, at the expense of all of the taxpayers, and because of the increase in visitors would expect that there is at least a small settlement with a gas station or convenience store near the entrance off of the main highway (built with taxpayer money), and maybe even a paved road to the campground, which may now, even have a shelter house – we got caught in a rather severe thunderstorm with no cover other than the car.
The goal of the Yellow Hair is to turn everything Federal back to the states, which could really not afford to keep them as they are. If Utah were to just have to maintain them as they are, the people of Utah would have to pay much higher tax rates or the State would have to approve development which would, at least for a time, support them, but the costs of the daily users fees would have to increase to the point were they were not affordable to most of the people.
It has been my tax money, and the money of my ancestors which has been used to keep these places as they were found even though I may never visit them again, I would like to see them preserved, as is, for all people who come after me – that means no privitization and adequate funding for their maintainece from all of the people.
Wow! You have done your homework.
Constant war is required to prevent bankruptcy to the bankers. Research Louis McFadden’s speeches to Congress in the 1930’s. Kennedy was printing gold notes to replace Federal Reserve Notes.
Ivanka and Kushner.
Our government and country are a CIA Deep State run fraud since 1963. American life is a charade with a soundtrack provided by the CIA’s “mighty Wurlitzer.”
The quality of the electronic distractions has degraded to the point where now we get the jackboot on the face of humanity, their patience has run out. But, so has ours…
Simple answer without a long page of explanations: The 12 kosher family who shares the ownership over the Federal Reserve.
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you can make ten times more money in one day of war
than you can in a whole year of peace.
the Rothschilds,
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Making Money from War–
THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD
The World’s Banker, 1849-1999
By Niall Ferguson…
labor unions have become the enemy of the American taxpayer
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“Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants –
but
debt is the money of slaves.”
and counterfeit currency is the money of the TalmudThumpers!
by way of deception
though shall make war.
give me control of printing a nations money.. &… i care not who makes it’s laws
The ‘leaders’ all play golf together and plan which country will wage war against which country.
So long as a continuous boogie man exists and death occurs the military industrial government is happy and in hiding in plane sight.
Suggested read: ‘the report from Iron Mountain’.
When you are born, you are given a birth certificate and social security number. Your name appears in all caps on these documents. You are the newest possession of the overlords.
Who controls the US gov? Or the world for that matter? That would Satin’s children. The current “boss” would be kushner with the trumpster as imposter. Can’t get any more sick than this, or can it?
Kushner is an errand boy
Well, I hope you are correct on that.
Still a dangerous operator with his “deep state” mafia bosses
Hey Scott: Have you ever heard of Bro. Nathanael Kapner? Do a YouTube search. Bone up, my good man.
You are on a gooseChase, as it presently is. And you are woefully behind the curve. …or you are actually a bought-and-paid-for shill. Hope it’s not actually that.
Under the federal rules of evidence, all things that might be protected under the 1st Amendment must be taken in the total context of the situation, so what JFK said in 1963 may or may not apply today because all situations have changed dramatically. It seems that Yellow Hair worships Andrew Jackson, but what he does not say is about his order to forcefully remove the Cherokee from their traditional homelands – ruled Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, but Jackson said that the Court could send its army in to enforce the order – look at what Yellow Hair has said about the courts that have ruled against him on his EO’s – he would like to be able to do the same ignoring the orders of the Court. He ran for Tyrant, with no accountability to any one – like Hitler, and just won the Presidency by the largest minority ever. Only by a total of 70,000 in the three states that put him over the top.
Now we are going back to the time of American Greatness, which is code for privitization, because according to the Freedom Coalition, the Federal Government cannot do anything well, and that also includes the Security agencies. To show this, Snowden, was actually an employee of Booze, Allen, Hamilton, and as an employee of a private Contactor, he had to go to work everyday before he got his clearance, so there was a rush to clearance. During Reagan there was a great surge in the building of Private Prisons, but most of these are now closed, but the Yellow Hair plan is to turn these into Federal Detention centers, and repeat the same problems that lead them to be closed. The government can delegate the authority to detain to any one it feels is qualified, but it cannot delegate the liability that may arise our of such detention. so the way that the private prisons made money was by under-staffing, which put the gangs in charge of their prisons, and these gangs hurt or killed other inmates, so the government had to essentially pay these penalties. Great Idea that will cost the taxpayers far more than it would if the Feds actually ran the detention centers, but fulfilling a campaign promise regardless of the cost.
The way that the Military will take over is if it is privitized as were the Roman Legions. We have Bears Ears National Monument because no one claimed the land – it did not take property that was in use by others to preserve it so that it would not become a big condo project or oil field, but Yellow Hair has ordered a review, so there will be another court thing about whether a sitting president can actually undo the actions of a previous president. How about that Condo Complex that hides the big rock in Yosemite? The great spending on the military will not have any effect for several years – it is taking 5 years for the sea tests on the new carrier – the Ford, but it looks good, but the way that we got there because the Conservative House was cutting the military budget without thought to the consequences.
From Cicero – a Roman Republican and opponent of Caesar who was assinated by Augustus: “We or our leaders have set our boat adrift without oar or rudder, and now we must trust to the mercy of the tempest.” Hail Yellow Hair.
Gawd – this article is lame – where did you get this watered down writer with the superficial analysis? He says “Bombing Afghanistan caves and tunnels…hasn’t…gotten any ISIS militants”. Ridiculous. This sounds like an AP writer, plugging into the posturing about ISIS being something that is not a direct creation and expression of US/Zionist influence. And no mention whatsoever of Israel.
It is absolutely AMAZING that Obama would receive the Profiles in Courage Award. JFK was a very good man, a great patriot and leader who loved and served the country to the best of his ability. Obama is the exact OPPOSITE. Obama is a TRAITOR and a very evil, deadly & dangerous ENEMY of America and of all humanity.
It has always been the Ashkenazic depopulation agenda that Obama followed; and now, Trumpet is following suit without conscience. The profile of courage award was given to Obama by the order of the Khazarian Mafia as another jab into President Kennedy.