{"id":71103,"date":"2017-04-11T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71103"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:38:00","slug":"is-anyone-beside-tulsi-gabbard-person-enough-to-take-on-the-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71103","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Beside Tulsi Gabbard Person Enough To Take On the MIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->April 11, 2017<br \/>\nThousand Oaks, CA<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>It is truly amazing how few Congress members have the courage and<br \/>\nintegrity to stand up to the <em>Military-Industrial Complex<\/em> which dominates<br \/>\nAmerican politics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=73070\">http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=73070<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few who are man enough&#8212;-or in this case, woman<br \/>\nenough&#8212;&#8211;to say no to President Trump&#8217;s constitutionally suspect<br \/>\nescalation of the war in Syria. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70981\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70981<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the people who supported Trump during the 2016 election<br \/>\nwanted the type of foreign policy he promised would guide his<br \/>\npresidency rather than the interventionist model Hillary advocated that<br \/>\nwas consistent with her predecessors. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70925\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70925<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead we are getting another undeclared war without the proper<br \/>\nCongressional authorization, exactly the opposite of what the candidate<br \/>\npledged and exactly what Gabbard objects to.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of calls for impeachment, most of Congress appears on board<br \/>\nfor this violation of the separation of powers and classic abuse by an<br \/>\nimperial executive.<\/p>\n<p>With the Main Stream Media now cheering him on after nearly two<br \/>\nyears of unrelenting criticism, it&#8217;s no wonder they are in shock when<br \/>\na person like Congresswoman Gabbard disputes the official narrative.<\/p>\n<p>And as another indication of just how far down the rabbit-hole towards<br \/>\na totalitarian oligarchy of billionaire banksters and neocon war-mongers<br \/>\nwe have become as a nation, the outrage towards Gabbard by members<br \/>\nof her supposedly anti-war, &#8220;progressive&#8221; Democratic Party is sickening!<\/p>\n<p>Howard Dean has actually stated that Gabbard &#8220;does not deserve to be in<br \/>\nCongress.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71107\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71107<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is my deepest wish that Gabbard sees the light and bolts the party<br \/>\nto lead the pro-peace charge. I pray other anti-intervention populists<br \/>\nlike Rand Paul also leave their wing of the War Party (Republican)<br \/>\nto start a new political grouping that reflects the deep anti-war sentiment<br \/>\nof most Americans who resent these unending Globalist adventures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are currently on the same page regarding legislation to stop the<br \/>\nUS from funding terrorists and both are calling for an investigation of what<br \/>\nreally happening in Syria with respect to the alleged sarin gas attack.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=168849\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=168849<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we all now know, the Deep State is never finished. It is ruthless,<br \/>\ncunning and hegemonic in its actions. Only a determined, focused<br \/>\neffort by decent people will defeat such an evil cohort of leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The time to organize is now: further delay or hesitation may prove fatal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}