As a citizen who deeply cares about the sovereignty of our nation, I am profoundly concerned about the implications of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This legislation threatens to erode the autonomy of our military by paving the way for a merger with Israel's armed forces. This is not just a political maneuver; it strikes at the very heart of our national independence.

The National Defense Authorization Act, a staple of our defense and budgetary policy, has recently morphed into a vehicle for policies that may undermine our sovereignty. It includes provisions that could facilitate merging certain military operations with Israeli forces, potentially compromising our independent decision-making in critical defense strategies. Such moves not only risk our ability to maintain autonomous military policies but also challenge the principle of national sovereignty—a value we hold dear as a nation.

Moreover, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) exerts significant influence over U.S. policy. If AIPAC is encouraging policies that align too closely with foreign interests, it should be required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). This would ensure transparency and maintain the integrity of American policymaking, reminding us that national decisions must prioritize domestic welfare above foreign influence.

The necessity for AIPAC to register as a foreign lobbying entity is not merely about bureaucratic procedure; it is about protecting the integrity of our governance. The intent of FARA is to ensure that all entities potentially influencing U.S. policies are transparent about their affiliations and intentions.

We call upon lawmakers to question and reconsider any components of the NDAA that infringe upon our national sovereignty. We urge the American government to enforce FARA regulations rigorously, ensuring that entities like AIPAC operate with full transparency.

When examined closely, these individual issues reveal an integrated apparatus designed to monitor and manage society as a single, centralized unit, while our federal resources are utilized to underwrite severe violations of international law.

Federal Legislation and National Security Risks
Recent provisions tucked into federal defense and intelligence legislation raise severe constitutional and national security alarms:

The FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA Section 219): This provision (previously designated as Section 224) mandates the structural integration of America's dual-use, "crown jewel" technologies—including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity—with a foreign nation without requiring reciprocal access to source codes. This moves military cooperation out of transparent State Department foreign aid frameworks and into opaque Pentagon procurement channels, eroding vital congressional oversight and compromising U.S. technological sovereignty.
Intelligence Overreach (Tom Cotton’s Section 622 of the Intelligence Authorization Act): This section mandates unconditioned intelligence sharing and "data fusion" with foreign entities, explicitly binding the Executive Branch's Article II authority by making it legally impossible to reduce or suspend this data pipeline without unprecedented presidential hurdles.
Allowing a Foreign State to Violate Americans' Constitutional Rights:

By legally mandating "data fusion," these provisions explicitly create an unconstitutional backdoor for foreign entities to trample on the Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. Mass surveillance data collected on Americans by domestic agencies can be funneled directly into these integrated pipelines, allowing a foreign government to process, analyze, and exploit the private information of American journalists, legal advocates, and dissidents without a domestic warrant. This effectively outsources the violation of U.S. civil liberties to a foreign power completely insulated from the Bill of Rights.

The Moral and Humanitarian Crisis
It is fundamentally and morally unacceptable for the United States to legally bind its intelligence and military apparatus to a state actively engaged in severe international law violations. Formal United Nations findings—including reports from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry and the UN Human Rights Council—have thoroughly documented systemic atrocities, concluding that actions in the region amount to ethnic cleansing, deliberate starvation as a weapon of war, and forced displacement.

Crucially, UN experts have detailed a systemic pattern of weaponized sexual and gender-based violence, including the arbitrary detention, torture, and sexual abuse of Palestinian men, women, and children. Passing legislation that cements unconditioned data fusion with an entity committing these documented horrors violates basic human decency and implicates our nation in global crimes.

The Domestic Infrastructure of Control
These federal provisions do not exist in a vacuum; they mirror a domestic network of infrastructure expanding rapidly across Illinois that erodes privacy and personal autonomy, creating an integrated apparatus designed to monitor and manage society as a single, centralized unit:

Flock Safety Cameras: Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are spreading exponentially across Illinois municipalities. By tracking the movements of citizens without a warrant or individualized suspicion, these cameras build a permanent, searchable database of our daily lives, stripping away the Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Data Centers and Environmental Degradation: The immense computational power required to process this staggering amount of surveillance data relies on an aggressive expansion of industrial data centers. These facilities place unsustainable strain on the Illinois power grid and consume millions of gallons of water daily for cooling, forcing local communities to bear the environmental and financial costs of their own surveillance.
Digital ID and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The ultimate bottleneck of control lies in the push for state-issued Digital IDs and a federally mandated digital currency. If the government can track every financial transaction and identity marker in real time, it gains the power to freeze assets, restrict travel, and enforce total compliance at the push of a button.
[Flock Cameras & Digital ID] ---> Real-time tracking of movement and identity
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 [Massive Data Centers]     ---> AI-driven processing and profiling
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 [Digital Currency / CBDC]  ---> Financial gatekeeping and compliance enforcement

When a citizen’s physical movement (Flock cameras), personal identity (Digital ID), and financial livelihood (CBDC) are entirely digitized and filtered through massive data infrastructure, total social management is achieved.

A Call for Immediate Accountability and Rectification
As a progressive leader in the House who has historically stood up for civil liberties and human rights, your voice is critical in halting this centralized overreach. Because I have not yet heard back from your staff, I ask for your specific, actionable response to the following questions:

Will you vote against, or introduce amendments to strip, Section 219 and Section 622 from the FY2027 NDAA to protect congressional oversight and prevent unconstitutional foreign data fusion?
What concrete legislative measures will you pursue to halt warrantless domestic surveillance pipelines that allow foreign entities or domestic agencies to bypass Fourth Amendment protections?
Will you oppose federal frameworks pushing for centralized Digital IDs and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) that threaten to lock citizens into a centralized social tracking matrix?

Sign this petition to stand up for our national sovereignty and demand that the NDAA be declared unconstitutional. Together, we can protect the independent spirit and decision-making capability of our armed forces and ensure fair representation of all lobbying entities.