October 02, 2019
October 02, 2019 - PRESSADVANTAGE -
Wayne Madsen, an American author, journalist, and columnist who focuses on intelligence and international affairs, and owner of the Wayne Madsen Reports blog site, has announced a new blog post by Kitty Dunn that has been published on the site. Aside from being a Washington-based journalist covering national security, intelligence, and international affairs, Wayne is the author of the book, “Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999,” and he was a Senior Fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC.
The new blog post, titled “Democratic Institutions Under Assault on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” talks about the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend the British Parliament to prevent the legislative body from stopping his plan to force a unilateral British withdrawal from the European Union on October 31 2019. The suspension of Parliament will continue until October 14, only two weeks before the UK is no longer a member of the EU.
Author Kitty Dunn says, “That means the re-imposition of a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, an EU member state, thus the Good Friday Agreement that brought relative peace to Northern Ireland will be placed in jeopardy.”
In this foreign affairs article, the author states, “Unelected British Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to prorogue Parliament, a decision that received pro forma royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II, is the first such move since King Charles I shut down Parliament in 1629.”
The article then points out that democratic institutions are in peril in the UK because the British Prime Minister’s move is similar to King Charles I shutting down the Parliament in 1629 to rule Britain as a tyrant for 11 years. This monarchy came to an end after a civil war allowed Oliver Cromwell to seize power and declare a republic for Wales, England, Ireland, and Scotland.
The article then warns that both the US Congress and the UK Parliament should be worried because US President Donald Trump has indicated in one of his tweets his support for the British Prime Minister’s suspension of Parliament. Kitty Dunn then points out that Trump’s support for Johnson’s move sends a clear message to dictators and those who are planning to become dictators in their countries that the US president supports them.
The article also adds that Trump had also made similar unconstitutional actions regarding the US Congress. It alleges that Trump had illegally utilized congressionally-appropriated funds for other purposes, and that he refused to provide the subpoenaed witnesses and documents to congressional oversight committees.
According to the article, the US president has used Article II of the Constitution to support his claim that he has absolute power, and that this is very similar to the British Prime Minister’s move, when he neutralizes the power of Congress by simply ignoring it.
In response to the British Prime Minister’s move, some Members of Parliament have threatened to barricade themselves inside Westminster and even hold an emergency session of Parliament in another location if they are forced by the police to leave the premises.
Wayne Madsen joined the US Navy right after graduation from the University of Mississippi. He was then stationed at the Naval Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) station at Coos Head naval facility in Oregon in early 1982. Later that year, he was transferred to Washington, DC. He had reported that in 1984, he was loaned by the Navy to the National Security Agency. Later, he resigned from the Navy in 1985.
He held various jobs between 1985 to 1989, and then in 1990, he joined Computer Sciences Corp. and worked there from 1990 to 1997. In 1997, he joined EPIC as a senior fellow but left in late January 2005. It was in 2005, that he became a freelance journalist and his articles had caused him to be described as a conspiracy theorist.
Those who are interested in the articles about international affairs and Washington intelligence topics can visit the Wayne Madsen Reports website.
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