Saturday, July 7, 2018

Morning Rant: the CIA, Term limits for Congress, Voters Rights, Power to We the People


There are not three branches of government. There are five....at least five anyway.
Of course, in America we have the executive, legislative, and judicial...but number four, and perhaps the most important is the electorate, the voters, the people who choose our leaders and representatives and put them into office.

Number five is the CIA, for the the actions of the CIA often go unexamined, and they have built a longstanding tradition of covert affairs...emphasis on the covert.

For more info on the CIA and their actions, one can look to the work of:
John Stockwell - "In Search of Enemies" and "The Praetorian Guard" 
Jeremy Scahill - Article from the Nation on the CIA in Mogadishu 
Ralph McGehee - "Deadly Deceit" 
Bill Clinton - Interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace admitting that the CIA refused to certify basing rights in the Near East, so the U.S. military could go after Bin Laden prior to 9/11.
John Perkins- "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - with specific attention to a group that he calls the Jackals. These are people that receive outside orders to cause internal destruction and chaos within a government that does not play ball with the United States or the system of financial oligarchy.
Aldo Moro- Italian Prime Minister who was murdered....Who killed Aldo Moro?

As for the the electorate. The citizens of any voting country are the largest branch of the government. They have the largest power to check and balance the system, yet at this time we need to give more power to the people. In nations like America we have term limits on the president, but where are the term limits on the senators and the representatives?

A man named William Cooper, became famous for his book "Behold a Pale Horse," but in an interview he makes a startling proposal.

Limit the terms of Congresspersons and Senators to one single term:
1. Six years for a Senator 
2. Two years for a Congressperson. 
3. You serve only once...one time in a person's life.

The reasons for this are simple and the following:
-It would create a constant revolving door of people from a state or district coming in and out of the political sphere.
-It would eliminate career political candidates in the legislative branch.
-The voters would always have new choices.
-A candidate would NOT have to spend a single second of their term fundraising, and they could devote the entirety of their two years or six years to their work. 

Two terms is too much. We are talking about 12 years in the Senate. This would take power away from the establishment politicians and restore it to the voters. With limits of one single term in the House and the Senate, we would have enormous amounts of power placed on those who vote and less on those who are choosing the nominations.

Let's open this for discussion:
Please leave a comment below,
Should congresspersons and senators have term limits?
If so, how many terms?

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