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. @JoeBiden has tapped retired Army General Lloyd Austin to serve as his #SecretaryOfDefense. There are many reasons why that is a problem.
General Austin sits on the board of directors at #Raytheon, a company that makes billions of dollars a year in profit from the wars overseas, and has done particularly well selling weapons to the Saudi government for their US-sponsored genocide in Yemen.
This appointment is a perfect example of the revolving-door relationship between the White House and lobbyists for major crony corporations like Raytheon and others. #Corruption
Additionally, US law bars recently retired military officials from serving as Secretary of Defense, the top post in the Pentagon, and for good reason. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/biden-lloyd-austin-pentagon-waiver.amp.html
America requires civilians run the DoD so we could try and avoid the horrors the British colonial rule imposed upon colonial Americans. This process, in theory, is *supposed to* humanize a violent position, and provide civilian oversight of the Pentagon. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna691296
As the #TrumpAdmin accelerated our military's involvement around the globe, it also accelerated the police state presence through the Pentagon: unloading ever increasing levels of military equipment to local, state, and federal police all over the nation
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-hand-me-downs-militarize-police-1033-program/amp
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-hand-me-downs-militarize-police-1033-program/amp
. @JoeBiden is giving us every reason to believe that he intends to continue this trend.
The Senate MUST reject Biden's request to change the law allowing Gen. Austin to serve as #SecretaryOfDefense
The Senate MUST reject Biden's request to change the law allowing Gen. Austin to serve as #SecretaryOfDefense
If that fails, the Senate should reject Gen. Austin for the nomination itself to tell Biden that we demand an end to the empire, and to #EndTheWars https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/08/democrats-need-defend-norms-they-should-oppose-lloyd-austins-nomination/?outputType=amp
“He gets the job done.”, says Biden.
That simple statement speaks volumes when you look at the horrific foreign policy of the Obama/Biden administration.
Simply put, #GeneralAustin is the personification of the military industrial complex, and he needs to be rejected explicitly.
That simple statement speaks volumes when you look at the horrific foreign policy of the Obama/Biden administration.
Simply put, #GeneralAustin is the personification of the military industrial complex, and he needs to be rejected explicitly.
