Nato, UN trumps Congress’ War Powers Act says Defense Sec Panetta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNwOeyuG84&feature=player_embedded
While this shit has been going on since before I was born, to flat out tell Congress the Defense Department’s authority comes from Nato or the UN is shocking. Hopefully this wakes some of them up. Call, mail, fax and email your Senator, Congress critter asap.
This is not good. Not good at all.
Here we go. Thats just what they needed to break us down.
The US military has been USED for the better part of a century now for purpopses other than defense of the homeland. General Smedley Butler (two time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient) preached about this but no one listened.
Globalism, the US Constitution just dosen’t fit in. . .
Is this news to people? Seriously…its been going on for a while now…
They are just getting bold enough to come out and say it.
You are being manipulated.
Panetta really didn’t handle that very well. He should have known that type of question was coming and should have prepared something better than that.
The US can only fight a war if the US congress declares it. Military action is another thing.
All he would have had to say is that world bodies do not have veto power over the US using force? Would that have been so hard to say???
It is when you are a progressive globalist. At least he is honest and saying what he believes.
Disturbing, but certainly nothing new. As far as Panetta goes, he has to blow his boss to keep his job (meant as a euphamism and metaphor and not to be taken wholly or partly in context with actual performance of oral sex).
He said what he believes in an accidental moment of honesty.
He is a transnational socialist. His world view is exactly what he stated to Congress.
Just the tip of iceberg, wait until after UN Weapons treaty conference July 2-27…
Didn’t this happen to Rome before their demise?
When was the last time Congress actually used the Wartime Powers act to declare full on war? WW2?
This has been happening for years now. Its just like Zappa said, the curtains of freedom have been pulled back and the only thing on the other side is that brick wall.
So, I’m just curious. Where are the comments now from all the posters on this website who, as people would predict these events over the last several years, have been making all the tinfoil hat comments? “Our constitution prevents them from doing the things you paranoid individuals think they will do.”
Whatever. The current government, republicans and democrats alike, wipe their collective ass daily with the constitution. Then throw in events like the Indiana Supreme Court decision on the 4th amendment. These sorts of decisions will become more and more common. Give Obama a 2nd term where he will be able to fill the Supreme Court with progressives and stick a fork in us. We’re done.
It’s been very obvious this stuff was coming. Whether we’d like to believe it or not.
I used to think those tinfoil hat wearers were a bit on the anxious side. I guess you can only use the constitution as toilet paper for so long before it’s pretty much all gone and those people ended up being right.
This is not new. Remember when all the liberals wanted bush thrown in international court for war crimes. The left has long looked past our own domestic law and sought out international acceptance rather than whats legal or right for America.
The first year Obama was in office it was a “We’re sorry” international campaign.
:rolleyes:
Agreed, but I think it is a major thing that they feel safe enough to say it aloud. It is even worse that almost no one cares.
Couple the authority to go to war with the largest standing military in history and the resources are already available to proceed without civilian (politician) declaration. Not even a need to call governors for guardsmen, and certainly no draft.