Philip Giraldi – Strategic Review Jan 9, 2020
Once upon a time there was a Constitution of the United States. In Article II, Section 2 it stipulated that only the U.S. Congress has the power to declare war, which means the American president has to go to the legislative body and make a case for going to war against an enemy or enemies. If there is a vote in favor of war, the president is empowered as commander-in-chief to direct the available resources against the enemy.
There is also something called international law. Under international law there are situations in which a head of state or head of government can use military force defensively or even preemptively if there is a substantial threat that is imminent. But normally, a country has to go through a procedure similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, which means making a case that the war is justified before declaring war. The Nuremberg Tribunals ruled that starting a war of aggression is the ultimate crime.
The president has already declared that he needs no approval from Congress or from anyone else to initiate further military operations against Iran in the Middle East, even if the action taken is “disproportionate.” Meanwhile he, the State Department and the Pentagon are all stating, without presenting any evidence at all to the public, that Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was planning attacks that would kill “hundreds of Americans” as a casus belli justifying his assassination. The White House is also asserting that the killing was done to “stop a war,” which makes no sense even coming from the addled tweet-conditioned brain of Donald J. Trump. And if one still harbors suspicions that Trump might actually be of sound mind, it is possible to listen to him on the day after the assassination while speaking to a gathering of his supporters at an evangelical church in Florida. He told the cheering crowd that “God is on our side” and that Soleimani “…was planning a very major attack, and we got him.” The audience went wild in approval, chanting “four more years.”
Such chest beating moments of pretend strong leadership coming from president bone spurs as well as similar justifications for an assassination that will be surfacing over the next few days simply do not pass the smell test. Take the window dressing away from the Pentagon and media propaganda and all one has left is that the United States illegally and openly killed a senior official from a country with which it is not at war and did so without the consent of the third country where the assassination took place with which the U.S. is also not at war. The assassination was not in reality based on any imminent threat and is therefore illegal under international law and is undeniably an unconstitutional act of war directed against both Iran and Iraq.
What is particularly bizarre about Trump-think on this issue is that the assassination was carried out right in the open in a country with which the United States has had of late a friendly relationship and which allows American soldiers to be based on its soil. Judging from the crowds of protesters gathered in Baghdad to protest the killing, that somewhat comfortable arrangement is about to end. And it will also end American involvement in neighboring Syria, which will be unsustainable without a presence in Iraq. That is the only good news to come out of the assassination.
To be sure nations at war will try and sometimes succeed to assassinate enemy leaders, and the intelligence services of various countries also have been known to kill foreign politicians who are considered to be threatening. America’s best friend Israel leads the world in that statistic. But spy agencies work their mischief on a basis of plausible denial, which means that the countries that carry out assassinations make every effort to obscure their role and permit deniability.
The difference in what the White House has done now is that another page has been turned in the process of the United States going completely rogue. It all started when George W. Bush warned that “you’re either with us or against us.” Barack Obama subsequently labored over his Tuesday morning kill lists, which included American citizens, and the Trump White House has now expanded that license, asserting that it can act with complete impunity and out in the open to kill anyone at any time anywhere without due process or any actual demonstrated cause or accountability.
Donald Trump should be aware that there is considerable downside to the tiger that he has let out of its cage. What will he do if “enemies” all over the world decide to copy the Trump example and kill American diplomats, soldiers and tourists because they oppose U.S. policies. And what about if they up the ante a little bit and kill senior Ambassadors, Congressmen, and even succeed in killing a presidential cabinet member or two. Trump in his foolishness has invited reciprocity and has even granted those who do the killing a certain immunity if they are claiming that they are doing it to stop something worse, i.e. war.
Finally, if the target of the assassination had been anyone but an Iranian, Israel’s enemy, one can count on there being hell to pay with Congress and the media over Trump’s having gone completely off the rails. Assassinating a foreign leader as a new United States government policy has to be an impeachable offense. Forget about obstruction of justice and collusion with foreigners: assassination is the real deal and if it does not constitute a high crime, it is hard for one to imagine what does. By all means let’s impeach Trump based on what he has actually done, not on speculation over what he might have connived at.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly justified the U.S. “extreme pressure” directed against Tehran, demanding that Islamic Republic take steps to become a “normal country.” The real question should be, “When will the United States of America become normal?”
Every President since Truman has committed an act of War without Congressional approval. Every citizen who votes is a 14th Amendment government slave who has voluntarily relinquished their Constitutionally protected God given Rights by becoming a Non-Natural born or Naturalized citizen. The Act of 1871 created the U.S. INC. and every citizen who does not declare their political status in considered a U.S. employee. Government property. Not A Free or Liberated individual who is Protected by the Constitution. The wool has been pulled over our eyes for so long that practically no one has a proper knowledge base to realize the deceptions that are being played out. Trump will not be impeached for this latest crime because there are so few “actual” Americans to bring charges and the Common law system of Justice was mothballed centuries ago. It still exists but there are not enough “Natural born” citizens with knowledge to populate or participate in it. The USA is a corporation with a population of employees not individuals. This was the beginning of the end March 12 1819 http://www.amendment-13.org/ Since then dual citizenship has gone unquestioned and BAR member took over the legal profession and the Justice system.
” the federal government has kept a secret: A little-known constitutional amendment, designed to prevent people with “titles of nobility” from holding public office, was ratified in 1819 before being deleted from the document as part of a conspiracy by power-hungry lawyers and bankers. But the original 13th Amendment is technically still on the books; we just don’t know it.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/new-hampshire-lawmakers-allege-secret-hidden-thirteenth-amendment/
That gives a little background to help understand the following
You don’t own yourself — the Federal Reserve does. ( government employee/property ) http://www.viewzone.com/collateralx.html
More on the 14th amendment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFVIlP9PFkY
I don’t believe that a majority will ever know these facts clearly or even accept them as being the truth.
@ Truthy1:
In America, from what you say, the Birth Certificate, is actually a Title of Ownership, of the Person named there-on, of the Corporation of The USA Inc.. In Canada, I believe, that a Birth Certificate, is the same type of Ownership Document, to the Hudson’s Bay Company, or the Property of Ruperts Land or the Crown of British Commonwealth or the British Monarchy. Thus, just like the Rothschilds, Queen Elizabeth II is one of the Richest person on the planet. The Rothschilds are Rich as well, but once everyone on Earth must have the “Mark of the Beast” ( Forehead or Right hand) through Bitcoin-like , digitized crypto-currency with Blockchain electronic ledger technology, for a One World Economic System (Globalization), the Rothschilds will own every person on the planet. They will own you because they can prevent you from Birth to Death from buying and selling, living, etc. and track / control you 24 / 7 / 365 days a year for your lifetime. Thus this “Mark of the Beast” is a System of the Antichrist (Satan) to destroy humanity. The goals of these Satanists is stated on the Georgia Guidestones in Georgia, USA. It is also stated in legalese in UN documents of Agenda 21 or now Agenda 2030 and UN Special Envoy, Canadian Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, is the front man for this scheme. DO NOT believe his smooth-talking legalese, used to fool humanity into this scheme for the good of the Planet!
Follow-up
THE VATICAN OWNS EVERYTHING
Global Elite families control the Vatican and the Corporation (the incorporation of the Apostle Peter). They also control the US Military, and the London Financial District – all three of which are independent city/states. The control center is the Crown Temple Syndicate. The Washington DC private corporation Federal Estate is actually owned and controlled by the London Crown Temple Syndicate. The Syndicate, through the House of Windsor, owns approximately 1/6 of the Earths land surface. But I digress … https://werdsmith.com/genesology/i97KFbseh
The birth certificate connection
Who owns your Soul? Welcome to Cestui Que Vic Trusts
The Holy See controls the courts through the Canon Law.
King Henry VIII in breaking with Rome created his own raft of Cestui Que Vic Trusts cemented in 1666 under Charles II. With the installing of Saxa Coburg and Gotha on the throne of Britain Rome began the road to retake power leading to the illegitimate Monarch that is Queen Elizabeth II, who has undone everything achieved by Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII. (The Tudors were backed by the House Stanley and House Pallavacini)
Vatican II finalised the Jesuit and thus the secret society combine takeover of the entire Vatican system allowing futurism to become the real script religion would follow. This includes Zionism and Islam.
The original idea of Monarchs tied to the Christian Canon Law was not originally a bad thing, but from 909 AD the Carolingians became the Monastery at Cluny. The West is controlled via this system therefore whomever controls Rome the Church, controls all in Christendom. https://thebridgelifeinthemix.info/british-law/in-profile-who-owns-your-soul-welcome-to-cestui-que-vic-trusts/
@ Truthy1:
Very true indeed: all of it! But you are forgetting the Vaticans connection to the Holy Roman Empire, which is a Frankish Germanic entity that brought about the various REICHs in Germany. Hitler in conjunction with the Vatican was the 3rd REICH. The modern European Union (EU – though Rothschild backed) is actually an intermediate step to the formation of the final Global Empire of the 4th REICH (German-led reformed EU) backed by the Vatican with an alliance to the rest of the Eurasian Landmass LAND power. This forms a triumvirant axis of Berlin (German EU – Vatican/Rothschild backed), Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China, where the focal point is Jerusalem, IsraHell, as a bridge to Africa. North America and the UK are excluded because they have fallen and were the Sea-based SEA powers that were replaced. You will also notice that the power base has also shifted East, where the power is concentrated to within 1000 kms of the Mediterrranean Sea. Thus Bible prophecy holds true and the Bible is the story of the world around the Mediterranean Sea because Jerusalem is the focus after Yahweh and Jesus Christ! If you do NOT understand, think of the Silk Road from the time of the 3 Kings/Wisemen/Magi to Marco Polo and now the Chinese BRI / SCO , Brick and Road Initiative and Shanghai Cooperation Organization and then think of Global De-Dollarization (Removal of US $ as Reserve Currency, No More PetroDollar – buy Oil with US Dollar). Thus Amerika is dead – DOA and a Mark of the Beast, Digitized Electronic Crypto-currency, a Bitcoin-like Blockchain computerized ledger Technology that tracks and controls you 24 / 7 / 365 days a year from Birth to Death and you can NOT Buy or Sell without it, where you must have the Mark on your Forehead or on your Right Hand. True believers, whether Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc., will NOT want this!
That dog & pony show of a speech by Trump the bloviating buffoon at the Evangelical “church” following him ordering the unconscionable murder of a foreign dignitary, which absolutely constituted a war crime and serious breech of constitutional law, was nothing but alarming and absolutely shameful. That a crowd of self-described Christians would cheer a murdering maniac and morally repugnant acts should be shocking to anyone who isn’t a psychopath. Evangelicals are out of their fucking minds. And there are no bigger delusional idiots on the planet than “Christian Zionists”. Giraldi nails it, as usual, in this piece.
@ Truthy Come on, man, the Vatican, while wealthy and powerful, most certainly does not “own everything” and is not in control of the shit-show that is the destruction & downfall of civilization. While the historical references you provide have merit and some validity, you are promoting red herrings and diverting from the true culprits – organized Jewry. I agree with your comments regarding what is hidden from the slaves in the US regarding the corporation that is the “UNITED STATES” and all that, and your historical references regarding shifting powers have merit in reference to the times in which they occurred, but it is now, undoubtedly, organized Jewry driving the train as it’s careening off the rails.