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In today's climate of fear, conflict resolution "is a distinct abstraction, not an actual event." Bipartisan leaders claim today's conflicts "take place everywhere and last forever." As a result, what chance have freedom and justice?
ACLU's report examines America's permanent war policy, the ramifications of militarizing counterterrorism, degrading equity and justice, embracing torture as official policy, racially profiling Americans, expanding a vast surveillance state, and entirely eroding democracy. As a result, freedom hangs by a thread.
Permanent War
On September 18, 2001, a joint House-Senate Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) approved "the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks against the United States."
A decade of war followed. On May 26, 2011, the House gave Obama and all future presidents more war authority than Bush by permitting conflicts anywhere for any reason or none at all.
In fact, Obama doesn't need it. He already wages war on humanity abroad and at home in violation of international law and constitutional provisions and protections.
As a result, permanent war is policy. Nations are ravaged one at a time for wealth, power, and unchallengeable dominance.
Spurious existential threats are claimed. Fundamental values are discarded, including due process, habeas, equity, and justice, as well as other inviolable international and US law.
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