Having received no reply to my letter from yesterday a Sunday letter I admit, I did have hopes of receiving at least a reply, to my request of pause and consideration when comes to values we project. I admit to a very high standard of value I place on human life, the importance of it, the preservations, efforts to better it, so I would have an expectation of reply.
Yesterday I spoke of compassions and passion, today I speak to reason.
H.R.4870: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015
Introduced in the House June 13th, 20014. Passed the House on June 20th 2014.
I have an issue with haste it leads to waste. However stepping beyond the speed of the bill is the price tag.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4870
Then to my utter amazement I found how easy a slight of hand is, it takes either a good deal to make millions move, but when comes to billions its harder it takes assistance to give another half trillion to defense by slight of hand. The part that gets me is other undefined defense activities and classified activities.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4923/text
Other defense activities
For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses, necessary for atomic energy defense, other defense activities, and classified activities, in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $754,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That of such amount, $249,378,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.
As if to slow my spinning head by the assault of these Bills all republican I might add, I turned only to see, it is once again time to give the Intelligence Authorization for appropriations.
Presented by the Democrats with provisions for the following departments
Section101 -
Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the:
(1) Office of the Director of National Intelligence;
(2) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA);
(3) Department of Defense (DOD);
(4) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA);
(5) National Security Agency (NSA);
(6) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force;
(7) Coast Guard;
(8) Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy (DOE), and Justice (DOJ);
(9) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI);
(10) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA);
(11) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO);
(12) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); and
(13) Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1681
Now I understand the idea of being strong and able to reply to assaults, I am for a strong defense, a reasonable defense, but this is not about defense, this is about investing in the destruction of human life at an unreal level. This about excess, duplications upon miss management, this is about inflecting horror through bombs, at such a level as to defy human reasoning.
Though slight of hand, through attachment by amendment our leaders are faced with special deals and special projects, but when a project develops to something so vile as our believe in this defense budget, in each area it shows so much duplication of service, so much government with one focus, the demise of human life. This is about a group of materials that must be used, by design for if we do not use them we will sell them.
War causes more than just pain and death, it cause a loss of home and employment, it cause people to flee, it causes refugees, yet out disregard to humanity, this government will not show prudence in its spending, it has yet to provide funding for refugee these horrors has caused.
Look to our promises to other nations is not the amount of weapons and warriors the very core of these agreements, a weapon by design if to take life, a warriors job is to do that taking of life. Would you not prefer peace, or food, would you not prefer prudence in funding, would you not request this stop.
Then as if to point a need of reality given by one among you, you the elected officials,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/23/new-england-mayors-call-for-refugee-resettlement-freeze/
A call to stop not the war but people running from war, stop the refugees. All of last week the news of how our southern boarder is being over run not by immigrants looking for a better life, but children looking to escape the horrors of the Drug War.
This Mayor is not complaining that these people come from Mexico he is complaining about the refugees of wars and people from Cuban, Russia, Congo, Eretria, Honduras, Bosnia, Somalia, Mexico, Burma, Slovakia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iraq, China, Columbia, Afghanistan, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Ethiopia, with special attention given to those from the horrors of War in Africa, that were given refugee status here.
He is complain that with all that we spend of taking and destroying human life, we show little care for the results of our behaviors.
Again I ask that you discuss this, again ask that you try to reason this out with friends, your co-workers, your family, I ask that you starting asking them to be responsible to human life. I ask that we demand they stop this reasoning, and employ human dignity, employ hope, I ask that we stop listening to the fear they talk about, and start looking at the results they are doing.
To what justification can we spend trillions of dollars in the destruction of human life, without equally spending trillions of dollars in the protection of human life, No child should need run from bombs planes or death.
No Child Should Die by a Weapon of War.
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