Community | December 16, 2011 | 4 comments

Sen. Bernie Sanders Denounces Defense Authorization Bill - (The Man That Should Be President)

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The Senate today voted for a Department of Defense bill that authorizes $662 billion for the military, almost as much as last year despite the withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the year. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted no and issued the following statement:

"The bill continues to authorize heavy spending on defense despite the end of the 9-year-old war in Iraq. Ironically, the Senate vote came on the same day when Defense Secretary Panetta was in Baghdad officially declaring that our military mission there has ended and that virtually all of the combat troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. At a time when we have tripled defense spending since 1997 and spend more today on defense than the rest of the world combined, I get concerned that my deficit-hawk friends say we've got to cut Social Security, Medicare, education, health care and other programs that help working families, but when it comes to defense spending the sky is the limit.

"This bill also contains misguided provisions that in the name of fighting terrorism essentially authorize the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens without charges. While we must aggressively pursue international terrorists and all of those who would do us harm, we must do it in a way that protects the Constitution and the civil liberties which make us proud to be Americans."
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4 comments // Sen. Bernie Sanders Denounces Defense Authorization Bill - (The Man That Should Be President)

  • Luna2na
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      Luna2na  

    • Between this pile of swill and the KeystoneXL shit and the insane rednecks flying around shooting the wildlife for the corporate ranchers who trash our national forests and other public lands, I've had it. This is the crap that really gets me depressed. I was raised with a sense of community and trust in the Constitution yet I knew there would come a day like this. It makes me sick. I guess the changes predicted for 2012 may be changes we hadn't really anticipated and I'm sure that the world as we know it will not be anything like what the near future now holds....

      I get a sick feeling that a general strike is in our near future, one where everyone is so pissed off that everyone refuses to go to work and slave away for the 1%... which will probably trigger another civil war in this land given the military madness and the mercenaries who will undoubtedly appear. These buttwipes don't want us to be a country anymore and they are doing everything incrementally so they can slowly deprive us of our lives.

      It's why I "walked" away from everything back in the early days of the last regime, sold everything and left everything that I couldn't run through an airport with. The mantra that has sustained me all this time is: If you don't have it (meaning physical possessions, including money), it can't be taken from you. I am now reevaluating that mantra since I'm not sure it applies anymore.

      I need to get some sleep but I don't think I will be able to for a couple days now...

    • 5 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
  • VFORVENDETTA
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      VFORVENDETTA  

    • Bernie is usually great of course, but could you imagine news media that would actually talk like fucking adults, and not like ball-less men, and brain-dead women smiling being cordial And spewing forth the same completely innocuous questions and/or statements which go absolutely fucking nowhere.

      Wouldn't it be refreshing on national television, if some news media personality (Like Howard Beale style) could simply look into the camera and say something like this-

      "662 billion dollars, that's six hundred and 62 billion fucking dollars! For the fucking military!

      That money sure as hell could be spent a lot better here at home, With that kind of money, we could house the homeless, feed the hungry, provide jobs to reconstruct our crumbling Infrastructure, and probably much more, that is if we lived in a democracy and our "representatives" actually fucking represented us, but we live in a plutocracy, so therefore they only serve the interests of the fucking wealthy!

      In other news.... the corporate controlled minions of both parties engage in the continuing pseudo-debate on whether peaceful protesters should be considered human beings and should be treated as such, or as an increasing number of lawmakers feel enemy combatants, which enables police to use any force necessary which they deem appropriate to curtail non-compliant behavior, this and much more coming up after the break....."

      The reality, is that you know it's a really sad fucking day in America, when our most reliable source of News, comes from a mainstream entertainment source, namely I'm talking about Jon Stewart of the daily show, Which is a comedy show, a fucking comedy show! things are so fucking bad, that one of the few objectively accurate sources of much needed information, is on a comedy show, (I really like Jon Stewart, I intend no offense to him at all) truly fucking pathetic and sad.

    • 5 months ago
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