{"id":31106,"date":"2018-02-17T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31106"},"modified":"2018-02-17T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T11:57:08","slug":"america-a-military-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31106","title":{"rendered":"America: A Military Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AMERICA: A MILITARY NATION<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA that have run the government, just like in countries governed by military dictatorships.<\/p>\n

Oh sure, the fa\u00e7ade is maintained \u2014 the fa\u00e7ade that is ingrained in all of us in civics or government classes in high school and college: that the federal government is composed of three co-equal, independent branches that are in charge of the government.<\/p>\n

But just a fa\u00e7ade. It\u2019s fake. It\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that the federal government used to consist of three branches. But that quaint notion disintegrated when the federal government was converted to what is known as a \u201cnational-security state\u201d after World War II. Even though it was done without a constitutional amendment, that conversion effectively added a fourth branch of government to the federal government \u2014 the national-security branch, which consists of the NSA, the CIA, and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

The addition of that fourth branch fundamentally altered the original three-branch concept, especially because the fourth branch quickly became the most powerful branch. The reason is because ultimately government is force, and the fourth branch is where the most force was concentrated within the new, altered governmental structure.<\/p>\n

As law professor Michael Glennon has pointed out in his book National Security and Double Government,<\/em> the result is a federal government in which the military, the CIA, and the NSA are in charge. They are the ones actually calling the shots. But they permit the other three branches to maintain the fa\u00e7ade that they are in charge, including periodically going along with decisions in the other three branches to keep Americans thinking that everything is the same as it always has been.<\/p>\n

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AMERICA: A MILITARY NATION Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1949,135,11469,16095,525,577,620,827,7840],"class_list":["post-31106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-america","tag-cia","tag-future-of-freedom-foundation","tag-jacob-g-hornberger","tag-military","tag-nsa","tag-pentagon","tag-united-states","tag-world-war-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31107,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31106\/revisions\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}