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J.T. Scott


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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 32
Sign: Sagittarius

City: CONWAY
State: Arkansas
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/10/2008
Friday, January 09, 2009 

Category: News and Politics
Thanks to this piece of legislation that passed by a remarkable 300-5 vote in Congress. First thought..several of them probably abstained. The rest went with the herd and obviously didn't give it much thought, elsewise one might believe our representatives are working for Israel, not us, right?


WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Many voices around the world speak up for the Palestinians, but few in the U.S. Congress.

Lawmakers in Washington routinely pass nonbinding resolutions supporting Israel during Middle East crises. The Senate on Thursday backed Israel's battle against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and the House of Representatives followed on Friday.

Even U.S. lawmakers who express sympathy for the Palestinians hesitate to call themselves pro-Palestinian and they voice strong support for the security of Israel as well, hewing to decades of close U.S.-Israeli ties.

"When these events occur, there's almost a knee-jerk reaction of Congress that endorses 1,000 percent what Israel is doing," said Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat and Lebanese-American who has voted against some of the measures and did so again on Friday.

"Israel is our ally. ... It always has been, with which I perfectly agree. But I don't believe in allowing that to blind us to what is in our best interests, or giving knee-jerk approval to anything Israel does. We don't do that with any other ally," he told Reuters.


This passed by a wider margin than the Patriot Act (357-66) and is more in line with the massive approval given to the Violent Radicalization And Homegrown Terrorism Act* (404-6) did in recent years.

Why is our government acting to strain relationships further between the Arabs and Israelis? Why are they promoting the exact kind of violent radicalization that will create more terrorist events? DO they actually want another major event in our own country that could lead to another war overseas? I think so.

-JT

*This bill (HR 1955) has not yet been seen in the Senate. It passed the House in October of 2007 on a quick roll call vote and disappeared into committee. Not one mainstream media venue mentioned it. Why? This bill guts the ability of any person to suggest even a PHYSICAL PROTEST against a government policy if you take it at it's literal context. If and when they pass this in the Senate, probably by a landslide, it's over my friends. Free speech will be a thing of the past. You'll only see me on my way to the woods.
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