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The Zionist senator from Connecticut is at it again. He’s doing all he can to get us into a war with Iran.

Look at him beg Petraeus to ask him for the authority to attack. Funny Petraeus didn’t take the bait, is there sanity in the military?

This time teamed up with the dishonorable fellow neo-con artist Jon Kyl. (Z-AZ)** $163,025*. Together, they introduced an amendment to a bill that thru a long list of questionable facts and out of context quotes suggest that it is the sense of the senate that we invade another country on the PNAC “wish” (read Hit) list. Iran.

You can read about the Axis of Evil and other scary PNAC stories in this Sept 2000 PNAC report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” here.

Doing a quick review of the amendment co-sponsors we find:
Joe Lieberman (Z-CT)** $268258*
Norm Coleman (Z-MN)** $38,980*
Lamar Alexander (W-TN)**
John Ensign (W-NV)** $21,700*
Lindsey Graham (W-SC)**
* Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2006 Congressional Candidates
** W=War Party or Bushite, Z=Zionist Party

So, we’ve got two (2) Zionist senators and three (3) War party senators.

So what exactly is a “Sense of the Senate” amendment.

It’s really nothing. Okay, not nothing, but it is only Senate doublespeak for “we wish we could make this a law.” It’s a posturing thing. But don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s nothing to worry about.

They’re laying the track for the train to war. They really don’t care how long it takes. And it doesn’t really matter who the President is going to be. The alignment is nearing completion and all we need now is a fake attack to set it off.

Anyway, here’s the Amendment that passed overwhelmingly yesterday, 76-22.

No kidding, it passed. Okay, so they had to tone down the war rhetoric a little, but nonetheless, your senators voted for it.

(b) Sense of Senate.–It is the sense of the Senate–

(1) that the manner in which the United States transitions and structures its military presence in Iraq will have critical long-term consequences for the future of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, in particular with regard to the capability of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to pose a threat to the security of the region, the prospects for democracy for the people of the region, and the health of the global economy;

(2) that it is a vital national interest of the United States to prevent the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran from turning Shi’a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve its interests inside Iraq, including by overwhelming, subverting, or co-opting institutions of the legitimate Government of Iraq;

(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies;

(5) that the United States should designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, as established under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiated under Executive Order 13224; and

(6) that the Department of the Treasury should act with all possible expediency to complete the listing of those entities targeted under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1737 and 1747 adopted unanimously on December 23, 2006 and March 24, 2007, respectively.

The warmongers in the senate are using the exact same strategy with this amendment that they did when they were laying the groundwork for invasion of Iraq.

Checkout this video on Talking Points Memo. Josh goes over a 1998 amendment that is eerily similar to this one just passed.

Talking Points Memo, is an awesome blog of Joshua Micah Marshall. Cool stuff there.

Read the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy Mearsheimer & Walt paper

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I wanted to share a video here of a kid getting tasered at the University of Florida. It is enough to make you cry, if you let it, to see where we are as a society.

This kid, someone’s son, was viciously manhandled and tasered while in handcuffs by the authorities and everyone sheepishly sits there and allows it to happen.

The buffoon, John Kerry, (who could have shown some leadership, if he only knew what that was) was the only one in the assembly that could have ended the situation. But, if you listen carefully, he just keeps rambling on. As though the cries for help from this young man are nothing more than some static in the line. He has since claimed that he had no idea the young man was tasered.

It made me ashamed to see the students just sit there. Near the end, there was a young woman screaming at the cops, but she gets warned off. Threatened off is more like it.

Was that something?

Interestingly enough, I was involved in a discussion over the weekend with a new friend’s 20 year old son. After awhile we cautiously ventured into this subject of governmental authority.

And before I realized what was happening, like a master swordsman with sword unsheathed, he was deftly wielding Romans 13 about without regard for life or limb.

I was struck by the swiftness and his almost robotic response, as he bandied about biblical Roman law; that we are required to submit to authority, since all authority is ordained of God.

“After all,” he said, “they don’t carry the sword for nothing.”

It was the old, “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” routine. So, I countered with, what must have appeared to be a most meager parry,

“So, you mean that we mindlessly, like sheep, need to submit to that authority and never question it.”

Clearly, I was not interested in a bloodfest, after all, we just met and I really liked this kid, so we moved on gingerly to other topics.

Eyeing each other warily, of course.

Reflecting on this discussion is why I found it extremely interesting to see this playing itself out in the real world. Authority stomping the rights of the individual and no one doing anything about it.

Seeing the comments to this video on YouTube, where this individual is demonized and the police are lauded as heroes protecting our national security.

My friend’s son firmly believes that all authority is God’s authority and clearly he is not alone.

I’ve spent the better part of the day trying to figure out why these people can’t see the signs of totalitarianism all around us.

I’d think it was obvious that the police are no longer public servants and that their jackbooted trampling of our rights is now the norm. More and more they respond from a position of supreme authority.

They’ve become the public masters and see themselves as the keepers of the law that we lowly “citizens” need to bow down to. These laws are constantly being revised under the guise of public safety, that bestow upon the police all the rights, while ours are being taken away.

This leads to the question:

Does our government exist to serve or does it exist to rule?

The truth is I think the answer is both, if by “rule” we mean they are to prevent the violation of the rights of individuals. That’s when the government rules justly, by serving.

You see the government doesn’t grant me rights, they are endowed by the Creator, to every man. I am no man’s servant by decree.

These rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are inalienable. Meaning that they cannot be abridged or suspended, they’re unchangeable. Clearly stating where the governemnt does or doesn’t have authority.

But then I started looking at the comments on YouTube to this video.

So many people think this kid got what he deserved. “How can this be?”, my heart cried out.

As a believer in the Constitution of the US, I thought that all laws would respect our rights, I had no idea that Florida law does not allow you to physically resist even an unlawful command of a police officer. If you don’t submit, you are guilty, period. Check it out here.

Are you kidding me?

Don’t you see that you have been classified as a non-equal to the police officer? Not all men are equal, but we are the servants of the government.

I’ve always assumed that while I should be expected to comply with an officer’s reasonable actions, I also assumed I would be allowed to defend myself from unreasonable, excessive force used by the officer.

I mean I possess a God-given right against unreasonable search and seizure. It’s guaranteed and can’t be legislated away.

That my friend is totalitarianism.

If they can make it a crime to not comply with law enforcement, we are in a police state, where we are rendered powerless.

I’ve posted a few other videos documenting police brutality, just so you don’t think this is a random occurrence.

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