Obama Guts Child Soldier Act In Favor of Shipping Cash & Arms to Middle East

Child Soldier of The Congo

On September 28, 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum which completely gutted former President Bush’s Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008(CSPA or CSAA, the name was changed to Child soldiers Accountability Act prior to finalization), a Bill which made it a federal crime to recruit or use soldiers under the age of 15 and a measure which forbade our government from selling weaponry and providing financial assistance to countries who enslave child soldiers. The law also gave the US authority to “prosecute, deport or deny entry to individuals who have knowingly recruited children as soldiers.”
Judging from the verbiage of the memorandum, which you will find in a screen clip below, the newly white listed countries include Libya, South Sudan, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – all countries which are  notorious for their use of child military labor.

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While I was  perusing the White House web site searching for other references to Child Soldiers I quickly discovered TWO(2) other memorandums which accomplished the same thing, one from 2010 relinquishing the sanctions on Chad, and another from 2011 in reference to the Congo only – making this 2012 measure Barack Obama’s 3rd and most sweeping and egregious free pass for countries enslaving children as child soldiers – and once again allowing the United States to continue funneling arms and cash to those countries. To add insult to injury, 2010 represented the first year that the Bush inspired CSPA bipartisan measure was to go into effect.
Ironically it was President Obama himself who deemed child soldiers a form of “slavery” less than a week after issuing his latest memorandum:

DALLAS, October 3, 2012 – “When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed — that’s slavery. It is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world. Now, as a nation, we’ve long rejected such cruelty.”  -Barack Obama

The addition of Libya to the list of countries now allowed to enslave children and be rewarded for it is of particularly disturbing. During the Libyan revolt of 2011 US-backed rebels used children as young as seven to assist in their war effort.
What’s also troubling in regards to Libya revolves around the Muslim Brotherhood’s February 17 Brigade which slurps U.S. funds from Egypt’s annual 1.5 Billion dollar “financial aid” package sponsored by American taxpayers. Feb 17 is notorious for their use of child soldiers and ironically was charged with the responsibility of providing security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during the time of the  September 11th 2012 attack which took the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 military operatives.  Feb 17 was a a no call no show on that night which helped facilitate the death of the aforementioned men as well as the theft of highly classified documents from the embassy building regarding oil contracts, lists of safe houses protecting U.S. informants and other less than savory information – which this author believes was the reasoning for the attack in the first place. But, I digress.
The mainstream media has completely blacklisted any mention of these presidential memorandums regarding CSPA and a quick search of google referencing “Obama child soldier” will prove that point. There is one small reference from ABCnews to the 2011 memorandum but all other search results are by new media websites and citizen journalists.
But while Obama’s mainstream media is on board assisting their president to diplomatically enslave innocent children in impoverished 3rd world countries, it appears the United Nations is not. Just a few days ago The Cable issued a report claiming that even the U.N. is asking the President to stop waiving sanctions on these countries who enslave child soldiers. On Tuesday, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report containing recommendations on how countries can address the issue of child soldiers — along with some criticism of Barack Obama’s insistence of allowing the exploitation of children by militaristic regime’s via his memorandum pen:

“The Committee urges the [United States] to enact and apply a full prohibition of arms exports, including small arms and light weapons as well as any kind of military assistance to countries where children are known to be, or may potentially be, recruited or used in armed conflict and/or hostilities. To this end, the [United States] is encouraged to review and amend the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act with the view to withdrawing the possibility to allow for presidential waivers to these countries,” the report stated.

And now, for the final uppercut; not only did then Senator Barack Obama vote for S. 2135 Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008 – he COSPONSORED it in 2007! Scroll and open the ‘cosponsors’ tab found at that link. It’s right there in black and white. And while we’re at it, here’s Senator Obama’s complete senatorial voting record.
Why is the President of the United States gutting legislation which he himself cosponsored and helped make law just 5 short years ago while in the Senate? What new revelations could have possibly presented themselves to him in that short span of time that would make him shift so drastically from wanting to protect children across the globe to waiving his own law and dismissing their agony and suffering?
This is the guy we’re supposed to trust with an across the board blind drone policy which states he can order the killing of Americans without trial based on his opinion and definition of what he considers “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force.”  This is the president that Lindsey “lintseed” Graham(r-sc) has came rushing to defend, giving the President an A in reference to his drone policy and going so far as to codify the President as a victim of his own libertarian and democrat constituents in Washington because they all condemn the policy.
Considering President Obama’s motivations for waiving these very important CSPA restrictions and sanctions on those who employee and enslave children into their military ranks – motivations which are transparently obvious, ie.  so he can continue sending arms and crated-cash shipments to those respective governments – based on the stipulations of his “targeted drone strike” policy  Barack Obama should drone strike himself because he’s showing all the signs of being a “senior operational leader” of terror sponsoring countries worldwide.
I’ll spare you his arms deals and 1.5 billion dollar annual payments to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and his financial support of Hamas for now – but mark these words: Barack Obama is sending what little American wealth that remains overseas to our very own enemies – and he’s getting better and better at doing it without so much as a peep from our mainstream media which represents a very alarming situation because as soon as media stops reporting these guys and gals in Washington will be completely free of public scrutiny and they can finally relax and finish raping whats left of  the American taxpayer as well as what few morals our society once possessed.
If anyone, supporters of the President or whomever, can offer some insight into why it’s in the best interest of the United States to send funds and hardware to violence prone African and Mid-East nations especially considering our national debt and our beleaguered economy, while simultaneously allowing children to be exploited in the name of war I would be relieved to hear it.
(many apologies to my readers for missing this when it happened back in September. This administration has gotten extremely good at sneaking real news past all of us, myself included, and I spend a few hours per day pouring over news stories. Also, many thanks to Laurie Struder for bringing this situation to my attention.)

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Presidential Memorandum--Child Soldiers Prevention Act

Presidential Determination
No.       2011-4

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT:    Presidential Determination with Respect to Section 404(c) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, pursuant to section 404(c) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA), title IV of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110 457), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application to Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA.
You are authorized and directed to submit this determination to the Congress, along with the accompanying memorandum of justification, and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                        BARACK OBAMA