Gerald Celente - Occupy Peace -- Remarks in Kingston NY

 A small rally in uptown Kingston marked the launch of a national movement, which organizers hope will transform American politics and stop World War III.

“Occupy Peace,” the brainchild of Trends Institute founder Gerald Celente, featured Ralph Nader, who delivered an hour-long foreign policy speech, plus other appearances by Cindy Sheehan, Gary Null, and Robert Thurman.

About three hundred people attended. Documentarians videotaped the event, for future online distribution, to help mobilize smaller statewide organizations, under the umbrella OCCUPYPEACE.US .

“We are gathered here to initiate a new burst of energy, to wage peace, and resist criminal wars of aggression” Nader observed. He said the use of brute force as an instrument of foreign policy, “affects our country in a very devastating manner.”

Nader noted that nowadays presidents declare wars, despite the constitutional separation of powers. “The Founding Fathers wanted a deliberative process, in Congress,” he said. “Congress has surrendered its authority, and given it carte blanche.”

Administrative death panels are held weekly in Washington, Nader indicated “President Obama gathers his security advisors in the White House, and they decide who’s going to live and who’s going to die, in Yemen or Somalia, or Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan, you name it -- drones,” he said

“President Obama gives the thumbs up, or thumbs down. Woo authorized him to do that? Where is the imminent peril requirement? And what happens when they expand it, and it is not stopped?” Nader spoke at length about blowback, the increase in enemy resistance to such acts.

“Apart from the brutal homicide that’s involved here, apart from the criminality, do you think that’s a smart move, from our own national security,” Nader asked. “Look at the cost. All empires eventually devour themselves,” he said.

Celente laid out his four-point program for attaining peace, starting with bringing the troops home, then putting them to work rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure. Demand the Constitution be followed by the three branches, and finally create statewide referendums for war, since Congress abdicated their power following WWII.

“We will vote whether or not to go to war.” Celente declared. “It’s not like they have to get on a horse and go to Washington. If we can bank online then we can vote online,” he said. “We’re all in this together, history is being made, and you’re all making it.”



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