The Bull-Moose Note.

It’s ridiculous for the US to start a war with Iran to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon when Iran has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and cooperated with international agencies like the IAEA to monitor their nuclear program.

On the other hand, Israel has not signed the NPT, has an estimated 90-200 Nuclear Weapons, maintains a policy of “Nuclear Ambiguity”, has stolen nuclear weapons material from the US, and doesn’t allow the IAEA to monitor the Dimona Reactor.

It’s clear who the real threat is.

DHS & ICE are relying on administrative warrants signed by agency officials — not judges — to detain people, even though the 4th Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires a judicial warrant to enter homes, schools, or workplaces without consent.

Administrative warrants are not reviewed by a judge and do not automatically authorize entry into private spaces, but federal agents are using them as justification, and in many cases refusing to show any warrant at all.

ICE claims they don’t need judicial warrants, insisting they can detain anyone they suspect of being undocumented based on probable cause. This has resulted in a nationwide racial profiling campaign where federal agents are essentially Stop & Frisking anyone who appears to be a minority or have an accent.

In 2013 Federal Courts ruled that NYC’s Stop & Frisk policy violated the 4th & 14th Amendments because of unconstitutional searches and racial discrimination. If that was unlawful for NYPD, why are similar tactics being accepted at the federal level?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 22, less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump said he would decide on whether or not to bomb Iran within the next two weeks, American B-2 bombers took off from an airbase in Missouri to drop the largest bombs the United States has ever used in combat on three Iranian nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.

The Trump administration has maintained that the strikes were necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which they say the country was just “weeks away” from accomplishing, even though no credible evidence of Iran working to build a nuclear weapon has existed since the country’s nuclear weapons program was shut down in 2003.

While the Trump administration has said that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, it has taken steps to shield a preliminary intelligence assessment that shows otherwise from Congress. The President canceled an intelligence briefing regarding the assessment that was scheduled to take place this past Tuesday because he knew the assessment wasn’t going to support his claim that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.

Instead of eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. bombing campaign may have just pushed it further underground. If the goal was to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the strikes appear to have failed. Unless, as some analysts warn, the real objective was to provoke Iran into pursuing a bomb, which would give the U.S. and Israel justification for a broader war in the future.

All we can do now is see how long this ceasefire holds.

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