Congress Is Captured
Soldiers for Israel may receive eviction and job loss protections
People in the U.S. have a special relationship with their “troops” consisting of performative gestures of respect and support coupled with short rations and low pay.
It’s a feature of the system not a bug that homeless veterans sleep on the pavement in every U.S. city. Cannon fodder that survives military battles are discarded as useless if they carry home mental health burdens or physical disabilities. The poverty draft offers a path toward higher education but for many the path is circular and they end up as low income as they started.
This is the context for news that Congress is again considering a bill to extend the legal protections U.S. active duty military have from evictions or job loss to soldiers who help Israel conduct its genocide in Gaza, its pogroms and land theft in the West Bank, and its carpet bombing of Lebanon. That’s right: the 20,000+ mercenaries fighting for Greater Israel under the blue and white flag would receive special treatment in the U.S. Not mercenaries fighting for Ukraine against Russia, or fighting CIA-sponsored “terrorists” in Libya — just Israel.
The bill, H.R. 8445, languished in committee until a recent push to get it out for a floor vote. Why? Presumably because their AIPAC handlers required it.
How much more special can the special relationship get?
The bill is not a popular one. A typical tweet:
The push is coming at a time when revolt against serving in the military on behalf of Zionist land and resource theft is growing.
The Epstein Files are still resonating as the reason the U.S. seems to do Israel’s bidding at every turn (personally I believe they are two entities owned and operated by the same evil oligarchs).
U.S. allies like Argentina’s current right-wing regime can also be seen pandering to Israel.
What to do? You could contact your “representatives” in Congress and ask them to vote against the bill. (If you can’t stand the b.s. they spout in reply, my advice is just don’t read it.)
You could also look for encouraging news amid our slide into full blown fascism. Here’s often serious comedian Lee Camp sharing research that shows regimes like the 47 cabal seldom hold onto power for very long. Why not?
According to researcher Nafeez Ahmed (as quoted in this Lee Camp substack post):
A fascist regime cannot remain fascist without picking bigger and bigger fights, and those fights kill it. Every regime in the dataset that scored high on overreach died within twenty-one years. …the average time to collapse is just 2.9 years.
Picking bigger and bigger fights is the theme of this interview by Danny Haiphong of Brian Berletic. It’s realistic and concludes that the end of the U.S. regime may not be near but it is inevitable. With fervent hope that the U.S. doesn’t blow up the whole world on its way down.
As a bonus for reading this far, enjoy a short video using not Legos but muppets to keep us laughing — so we don’t succumb to fear.
thanks, lisa. will relish listening whilst stacking wood. btw, does anyone know off top of heads which historical entity requires citizen participation in fighting genocide? this is for use in diy criminal mischief defense. was it nuremberg, geneva?