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AUMF Hunger Strike Enters Day 50

H.R. 198: Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF 2001)

AUMF Hunger Strike Status for IronBoltBruce

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 7 (Day 50)
Status: Weight Lost: 48lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/334625651422294016

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 6 (Day 43)
Status: Weight Lost: 43lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/332081945645305856

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 5 (Day 36)
Status: Weight Lost: 40lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/329538531737350146

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 4 (Day 29)
Status: Weight Lost: 34lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/327023783108038657

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 3 (Day 22)
Status: Weight Lost: 31lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/324465046728093697

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 2 (Day 15)
Status: Weight Lost: 23lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/322011760477470722

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 1 (Day 8)
Status: Weight Lost: 14lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/319395159882215424

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Boston Marathon Scare: Our Terrorism Abroad Washes Back Ashore

Boston Marathon Bombing | Boston Marathon Scare

Regardless of who was really behind them and why, chances are the Boston Marathon bombings would not have happened if unconstitutional laws like AUMF 2001 and NDAA 2012 Sec 1021 were not on the books.

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Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing killed 3 Americans and wounded more than 170 others. It was clearly an act of terrorism, but as with 9/11 no terrorist organization has thus far claimed responsibility. That’s seen by some as an indication that the act was state-sponsored. If so, what state?

I don’t know who did it. You probably don’t know who did it. And I’m convinced that the fearmongering CNN, Faux News, MSDNC and other mainstream media empty talking heads that started cackling “Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda! Homegrown Jihadists! 9/11!” before the dust even settled have no clue either.

Yes, the Boston Marathon Scare – which is how it will be leveraged by the fascist propaganda mouthpieces of our government and the Military Industrial Complex that controls it – is a human tragedy. But it is only one of countless human tragedies, and perhaps for perspective we should view it in comparison to just a few of the other “acts of terrorism” that occurred within a few days of the Beantown bombings:

  • In Afghanistan, a “fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike… An airstrike in the same district in Kunar that killed 10 civilians in mid-February prompted Karzai to ban his forces from requesting airstrikes (http://mil-com.me/XQKJ6B). “And along with drone attacks, an average of 4.8 children are killed per day in Afghanistan…” (http://bit.ly/YsOrym).
  • In Iraq – where Dubya declared “Mission Accomplished” and which Odrona claims we “left with honor” – “As of midday on Monday, as security officials and medical workers continued to count the dead and wounded, at least 37 people had been killed and more than 140 wounded in nearly 20 separate attacks, mostly car bombings, in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Hilla, Falluja, Nasiriya and Tikrit, according to local officials. The local elections, the first since the withdrawal of the American military at the end of 2011, are being anticipated warily by American diplomats and United Nations officials as a crucial test of Iraq’s shaky democracy” (http://nyti.ms/159GLZ4).
  • In Pakistan, “At least 5 persons were killed and seven others injured when a US drone struck a compound in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) here in Wana on Wednesday. According to details, an unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a residential compound located in village Sararogha of Babar Kot in SWA. As a result of missiles strike the compound was destroyed completely resulting in death of 5 people and leaving 7 others injured. It was feared that death toll may rise further as condition of some injured people was also stated to be critical” (http://bit.ly/YTy0zy). U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are killing 49 innocent civilians – including children – for every 1 “known terrorist” taken out (http://bit.ly/NOthd0).
  • Here at home, “Almost once every hour a U.S. military veteran takes his or her life. The Department of Veterans Affairs reports that 22 veterans commit suicide every day, on average. Austin veteran Andrew O’Brien almost become one of them. He survived a suicide attempt in 2010, after returning from a 12-month deployment to Iraq. Now he’s telling his story to raise awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder and military suicides” (http://bit.ly/110Kumb).

For decades America’s false and failed “nationbuilding” efforts have spread death, destruction and moral decay more so than “democracy”. American drone, missile and bomb strikes are now terrorizing, maiming and killing innocent civilians and children in unprecedented numbers, and America’s military forces are losing more troops to guilt- and depression-related suicides than they are to enemy forces that the American government itself is funding. It should come as no surprise, consequently, that the insanity and inhumanity our perpetual wars for oil and profit are proliferating overseas would make their way back to our shores.

Regardless of who was really behind the Boston Marathon attack – and regardless of whether their motive was payback for years of murder and mayhem or psyop propaganda to convince you to sacrifice Social Security that’s real for National Security that isn’t – one thing is certain: On Monday 15 April 2013 the citizens of Boston got a very small taste of the death and destruction America delivers daily around the world, the principal and questionable legal justification for which is the post 9/11 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Pass H.R. 198 to repeal it, and we’ll all be in a safer place. AUMF Hunger Striker IronBoltBruce has fasted for 22 days, lost 31 pounds and much of his strength in hopes of raising awareness and rallying support to make that happen (http://RepealAUMF.org).

And you?

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AUMF Hunger Strike Status for IronBoltBruce:

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 3 (Day 22)
Status: Weight Lost: 31lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/324465046728093697

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 2 (Day 15)
Status: Weight Lost: 23lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/322011760477470722

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 1 (Day 8)
Status: Weight Lost: 14lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/319395159882215424

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AUMF Hunger Strike Enters 15th Day

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Demanding the repeal of the post 9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), one American grandfather vows he’d rather die of a hunger strike than see his grandchildren die of a drone strike.

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The hunger strike of the human rights and civil liberties activist known as IronBoltBruce entered Day 15 at 6:00am ET on Wednesday 10 April 2013. The record-holding long distance motorcycle rider has eaten nothing since his fast began on 27 March and declares “I have lost 23 pounds and some of my strength but none of my resolve to see AUMF 2001 repealed and my grandchildren saved.”

His seminal act has initiated the “AUMF Hunger Strike” – Twitter hashtag #AumfHungerStrike – the singular demand of which is the repeal of Public Law 107-40, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Act signed into law by George W. Bush on 18 September 2001. Enacted just seven days after the attacks of 9/11, “AUMF 2001” gave the President sweeping and essentially unchecked powers to wage a global war of vengeance against the alleged perpetrators. Specifically, the President was and is “…authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

Over the ensuing 11 years, the AUMF 2001 carte blanche has served as the legal justification for a number of controversial military and government actions both abroad and at home, and by both President Bush and President Obama. Both administrations asserted AUMF as their authority to violate the sovereignty of nations with which we are not at war and conduct drone strikes which in Pakistan, for example, are reportedly killing 49 innocent civilians – including children – for every 1 “known terrorist” taken out. When on Valentine’s Day 2012 Obama signed “H.R.658 FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012” into law as Public Law 112-95 he authorized the use of drones in American airspace, and whether under AUMF 2001 that authority extends to the government execution of domestic airstrikes against American citizens was the focus of Senator Rand Paul’s widely publicized 12-hour filibuster last month.

Also here at home, AUMF 2001 serves as the statutory basis for Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012, or “NDAA 2012”, signed into law by Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve 2011 as Public Law 112-81. Known also as the “Homeland Battlefield” or “Indefinite Detention” provision, it gives the federal goverment “police state” authority to detain without charge and hold without trial American citizens on American soil, effectively nullifying the protection of habeas corpus and overriding the Bill of Rights. NDAA 2012 Section 1021 is being contested as unconstitutional in federal court by a group of activists headed by Pultizer Prize winner Chris Hedges, but for now it remains law.

An American citizen and grandfather concerned about the future and freedom of his grandchildren, IronBoltBruce committed to the AUMF Hunger Strike in hopes of raising public awareness of the threats to life and liberty posed by AUMF 2001 and NDAA 2012. The repeal of AUMF will undo NDAA, and that is what the AUMF Hunger Strike demands. Congresswoman Barbara Lee – the only U.S. Representative to vote against the 2001 AUMF – recently sponsored H.R. 198: Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the passage and enactment of which would satisfy AUMF Hunger Strikers like IronBoltBruce. Unless more concerned citizens participate in the hunger strike and support RepealAUMF.org (@RepealAUMFNow) in order to inspire a groundswell of grassroots political and direct action, however, GovTrack.us gives H.R. 198 a “2% chance of getting past committee” and a “0% chance of being enacted.”

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“The United States Government has ‘aligned itself with Al Qaeda’ in Syria and elsewhere, Senator Graham. So as per your guidance, who do we detain without charge under NDAA 2012, and who do we execute without trial under AUMF 2001? Should we start with President Obama, or you?”

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AUMF Hunger Strike Status for IronBoltBruce:

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 2 (Day 15)
Status: Weight Lost: 23lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/322011760477470722

#AumfHungerStrike: AUMF Hunger Strike of #IronBoltBruce Week 1 (Day 8)
Status: Weight Lost: 14lbs; Resolve Lost: None.
#AUMF #NDAA #Drones | RepealAUMF.org
https://twitter.com/RepealAUMFNow/status/319395159882215424