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Three More-Important Questions For Presidential Candidates To Debate

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Jay Janson

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Americans are no a sane people.
They Kill indiscriminately accordingly

Submitted on Tuesday, Dec 24, 2019 at 2:51:45 PM

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Gene Engene

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All the principles of international law are reflected in the Kellogg-Briand Act of 1928, which specifically made both war mongering, and war profiteering illegal, to which the United States was signatory.

But no mention is ever made of this, when the causes of any war since WWII are discussed. And that is because those individuals who most profit from war, ANY war, are already so deeply embedded in both the financial system, AND the government, that their 'leverage' is almost invisible, and strictly NOT to be talked about, IF you want to keep your job, reputation, and/or your life. Making money from war, under any such premise, or construct, has long been a part of the European, and subsequently American, banking system, and is the primary lever that is used, sub rosa, to persuade the American people, now, that each and every war is unavoidable, therefore inevitable, and therefore "necessary", to secure the benefits of 'freedom and democracy' to the people. And - it must be said, the benefits of war profits, because war is the ultimate consumer - it produces nothing - it only destroys, including its own tools of destruction, which must be replaced/resupplied, at whatever cost, no matter the cost, at ANY cost - thus leading to more profits.

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Jerry Kelley

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War is a racket, it always has been and always will be. Why? Because that is how the filthy rich get their money and power and they do not care about anybody else!

Submitted on Wednesday, Dec 25, 2019 at 12:35:10 AM

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Richard Pietrasz

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact is not the only binding legal document in the United States that makes these wars illegal. The much earlier Constitutional amendments known as the Bill of Rights also make these wars of aggression illegal.

Some would object that the limitations on US government power do not apply to non-US citizens, or at least to do not apply to residents of foreign countries. While that is what the US government does, it is not legal according to the Constitution. US citizenship only matters in eligibility for some US government offices, and immigration issues.

Submitted on Wednesday, Dec 25, 2019 at 2:43:10 AM

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Michael Dewey

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Third Question:

"Moderator: This question is for any candidates who wish to respond to:

"Every society has laws against breaking and entry into someone else's home. During the 2012 Democratic Party's Presidential Candidates Debates, candidate Rep. Ron Paul was heard to claim more than once that all US post-Second World War invasions beginning with Korea were illegal, unconstitutional and a horrific loss of human life.

It was as if Rep. Paul was talking to himself, for no candidate, nor TV commentators afterward, made mention of Ron Paul's claim and the issue of US military forces having taken the lives of so many millions of men, women and children within their very own countries.

Are there not laws against a country invading another country, which has not attacked the first country, especially doing so without a declaration of war, as the Nazis did?"

[["My question is not a question but a statement of what many others have brought to light to me. Congress does not declare war next time putting soldiers in harms way, why are the lights still on in New York City?]]

Submitted on Wednesday, Dec 25, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM

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"The book is very well written...very important in this individualized capitalistic illusory world that enslaves us all within its tentacles and forces us to believe that we are atomized and disconnected beings. Indigenous Lakota people end prayers with "Mitakuye Oyasin...all my relations..." An ancient African proverb states, "A person is a person only because of and with others..." This instructive text is very useful for us living in what we are always told is the modern world, because it reconnects us all and reminds us that ultimately, the endless circle of the Universe binds and connects us all and the Earth is Mother to us with no hierarchy...the ones at the bottom matter the most...like the ants who build mounds and hills, all working in unison and harmony...the book teaches that we were created for community and our destiny is organic community...anything else is doomed..."

Julian Kunnie, Professor of Religious Studies/Classics at the University of Arizona and author of The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People

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