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[https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/house-passes-authority-worldwide-war by Sam Milgrom 26/5/11 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/house-passes-authority-worldwide-war by Sam Milgrom 26/5/11 ACLU] | ||
The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the world, at any time, without further congressional authorization. The new authorization wouldn’t even require the president to show any threat to the national security of the United States. The American military could become the world’s cop, and could be sent into harm’s way almost anywhere and everywhere around the globe. | The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the world, at any time, without further congressional authorization. The new authorization wouldn’t even require the president to show any threat to the national security of the United States. The American military could become the world’s cop, and could be sent into harm’s way almost anywhere and everywhere around the globe. | ||
=====April 17, 1965: Largest Anti-War Protest===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/largest-antiwar-protest/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | |||
“Don’t stand by while human life is destroyed.” — statement on one of the April 17, 1965 outreach fliers. | |||
