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Guest Post: America - Government By Terror, Torture and Tyranny
Authored by Stephen Lendman, originally posted at Jim Quinn's Burning Platform blog,
America governs lawlessly. Out-of-control rogues run things. Conditions go from bad to worse. Tyranny threatens everyone. So does possible global war.
Fear-mongering, saber rattling, hot wars, proxy ones, drone ones, geopolitical ones, financial ones, anti-populist ones, mass incarceration, censorship, lawless sanctions, subversion, sabotage, targeted assassinations, mass murder, cyber-war, and horrific draconian harshness reflect out-of control governance gone mad.
Lying is official policy. So is state terror. Independent governments aren’t tolerated. They’re targeted. Regime change is prioritized. World peace is threatened. Humanity’s menaced. Survival’s uncertain.
Daily revelations explain more. War is called peace. State-sponsored assassins are called freedom fighters. Real ones are called terrorists.
Capital has divine rights. Monied interests run things. Plundering the earth for profit is prioritized. Popular needs go begging. Social America’s dying. Poverty, unemployment, hunger, homelessness and human misery go unaddressed. Corporate rights alone matter.
Democracy’s a four-letter word. Out-of-control power is unaccountable. Rule of law principles are mocked. Tyranny’s the law of the land. Advancing America’s imperium matters most.
Workers are exploited. They’re unprotected. Human and civil rights are sacrificed. Wealth, power and privilege are served. Militarized control supports them. Nonbelievers aren’t tolerated.
Torture is official policy. Gitmo is America’s public face. Innocent detainees suffer. So do many others. Thousands of political prisoners fill America’s gulag. It’s the world’s largest. It operates globally. Mercy isn’t in Washington’s vocabulary.
Diktat power rules. Police state terror threatens everyone. Freedom’s fast disappearing. Dissent’s not tolerated. Heroic whistleblowers are criminalized.
Even retired four star generals aren’t safe. More on that below.
Journalists are spied on. So is everyone worldwide. Big Brother watches everyone. It’s no longer fiction.
Censorship prevents truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Students are debt entrapped for life. Millions have no futures. An entire generation’s lost.
Madness substitutes for sanity. Unconscionable wrongdoing persists. America’s unsafe to live in. Oblivion awaits. Most people are too out of touch to notice. Others are dismissive.
Failure to act responsibly matters. It lets Washington get away with murder and much more.
Rogues running America take full advantage. Who knows what’s next.
The Pentagon’s former second in command’s being investigated. General James (Hoss) Cartwright allegedly leaked information higher ups want suppressed.
Cyberwar is official US policy. In spring 2010, Iranian intelligence discovered Stuxnet malware contamination. Its Bushehr nuclear facility was affected. US/Israeli cyber-war bore full responsibility.
Cartwright perhaps explained. He ran cyber-operation Olympic Games. Obama ordered stepped up attacks. Targeting Iran is prioritized.
Perhaps there’s hope if retired four star generals become whistleblowers. Maybe other insiders will be emboldened to act. Legions more than ever are needed. Hopefully many will come forward responsibly.
Edward Snowden provided a vital service. He’s a hero in his own time. He’s globally recognized. He deserves praise, not prosecution. History won’t forget him. He revealed what everyone needs to know.
Unprecedented global spying is official US policy. It’s lawless. Spies “R” us defines it. Police states operate this way. America’s by far the worst. It’s unmatched in human history. No one’s safe anywhere any time.
Shoot the messenger. Snowden’s hunted. He’s a wanted man. Washington wants him arrested. It wants him prosecuted. It wants him imprisoned. It wants him silenced. Perhaps it wants him dead.
It wants information he knows suppressed. London’s Guardian revealed it. It plans telling more. On June 28, it headlined “US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene.’ ”
It wants truth suppressed. It wants its message alone circulated. “The US army has admitted to blocking access to parts of the Guardian website for thousands of defense personnel across the country.”
“A spokesman said the military was filtering out reports and content relating to government surveillance programs to preserve ‘network hygiene’ and prevent any classified material appearing on unclassified parts of its computer systems.”
Pentagon officials lied. Censorship is official US policy. NETCOM On-Line Communication Services operates from San Jose, CA. It’s an Internet service provider.
Spokesman Gordon Van Vleet said it filtered “some access to press coverage and online content about NSA leaks.”
“The Department of Defense routinely takes preventive ‘network hygiene’ measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.”
An Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) spokesman said policy affects hundreds of defense facilities. Doing so suggests far worse future policy.
Washington may block anti-government content. It may do so routinely. Alternative media sites may be targeted. Vital truths more than ever may be suppressed.
Revealing them responsibly risks being criminalized. So may discussing what’s already known. Pointing fingers the right way is dangerous. Doing so risks being charged with aiding and abetting America’s enemies.
Van Vleet added:
“We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security, however there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information.”
“Until declassified by appropriate officials, classified information – including material released through an unauthorized disclosure – must be treated accordingly by DoD personnel. If a public website displays classified information,” blocking it will follow.
“Classified” includes vital information people have a right to know. Suppressing it reflects police state harshness. Rogue states operate this way. It bears repeating. America’s by far the worst.
According to an unnamed Pentagon spokesman:
“The Guardian website is NOT being blocked by DoD. The Department of Defense routinely takes preventative measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.”
On June 25, Guardian editors headlined “Edward Snowden: in defense of whistleblowers,” saying:
He’s no traitor. America’s First Amendment matters. It “prevents prior restraint and affords a considerable measure of protection to free speech.”
Obama violates its letter and spirit. He’s done so by “show(ing) a dismaying aggression in not only criminalizing leaking and whistle blowing, but also recently placing reporters under surveillance – tracking them and pulling their phone and email logs in order to monitor their sources for stories that were patently of public importance.”
Thanks to Snowden, we know more about what NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake called “a vast, systemic institutionalized, industrial-scale Leviathan surveillance state that has clearly gone far beyond the original mandate to deal with terrorism.”
Snowden is today’s Daniel Ellsberg. Releasing the Pentagon Papers got him targeted. He also faced Espionage Act charges.
He might have gotten life in prison. He was lucky. Gross government misconduct saved him. His 1973 trial collapsed. At the time, judge William Byrne, Jr. ruled:
“The totality of the circumstances of this case which I have only briefly sketched offend a sense of justice.”
“The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.”
Federal judges today don’t speak this way. Ellsberg later said:
“The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.”
“If you can’t handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn’t stay in the government at that level”
“The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth – essentially, never say the whole truth – of what they expect and what they’re doing and what they believe and why they’re doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters.”
Ellsberg’s a modern day hero. So is Snowden. Washington fears ugly truths revealed. Doing so arouses public anger.
Perhaps it emboldens others to tell more. Coming forward threatens America’s imperial ambitions. Preventing them responsibly matters most.
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We're not starving yet...
The general populace of the west, not just the US, is sitting in front of their boob-tube being spoon-fed worthless tripe masquerading as news, believing all of it.
When we get hungry enough we'll wake up. The problem is they are ready for it. They've already gotten their hands on 2 billion rounds of hollow-point ammo and they already know who the trouble-makers are. The military is short of ammo and is rapidly running out. The hollow-point is the same calibre that the police and Homeland Security uses. The military uses a different calibre.
Does this sound well planned to you?
That would make a great rap song. Maybe add an industrial bacground.
You elect Communists into office, you get communism.
Yeah, "elections" are the problem. LOL...
Next the Muppets will welcome an official tyrant.
He’s no traitor. America’s First Amendment matters. It “prevents prior restraint and affords a considerable measure of protection to free speech.”
The lapdog media just say this because they are covering their own asses to keep themselves employed. I doubt you'd ever hear them say something similar about the 2nd Amendment.
All the Amendments matter that's why they exist. There seem to be far too many traitors and collaborators in the US now. And not enough Patriots left to stop the dissection in progress.
Please prove me wrong.
An ancient warrior once said: first reckon, then risk.
No need to intervene when your enemy is damaging himself.
Looks like you failed again [shakes my head]. This post doesn't pertain to any ZH member's. They have a major ass cramp about now. Keep trying, it becomes easier to make your life a collective misery. Blows a kiss! Tag, your it...
Only if you're not the United States. An empire is only threatening if you're on the wrong side of it.
Snowden's done no service for this country - but against it. There's nothing that wasn't already known to some quantity before the unwarranted disclosure to enemies of the US. He's no hero and has done everything against the United States, enabling its enemies to further damage it.
The true hero will be the one that captures and/or neutralizes Snowden, whether they are a private citizen or government official.
Good thing you led off with italics, saved yourself some serious junking.
Highlight his name, hit Tab 3 times (until a small ' appears next to the down arrow), hit enter
Thank you!
People like you were the Nazis who exterminated my ancestors.
Sig Heil!
This provides examples of whistleblowers and their supporters who aid and exploit them. More to come.
Checkmate bitchez
The USA is dead, long live the USA!
"Not God bless America, God damn America."
Jeremiah Wright - Obama's mentor.
So, what new?
No shit. Standing armies, standing bureaucracies, and the non-working aristocracy have to fill their time somehow.
Escape to Ecuador...NOW!
http://yourescapetoecuador.com/
They hate us because we are free.
Back to watching Dancing with the Stars
The hate us because we're us
Please use [SARC] tag when being sarcastic. You want to avoid that akward moment when your sarcasm is so advanced people actually think you are stupid
"Government By Terror, Torture and Tyranny" ... and wanton waste. I thought that Obama's trip to Africa would cost us $100 million ... I was wrong it will cost us 7 Billion:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/30/19221056-obama-announces-african-electricity-initiative-reflects-on-mandela?liteIraq is still waiting for electricity after shock and awe. What hypocricy the USA is capable of these days.it will be American tax payers setting up electric in Africa for Corps to profit from.
Starting with the shipbuilders and $BDI.
Wondering where the .1% er's were going to hide when SHTF.
The answer to that would shock you. It would be better phrased, where do they think they will hide? Definitely worth researching. Hint - DUMBS.
Dont worry - its just newly printed. Therefore no sweat attached of hard working Americans.
Our current system favors psychopaths on every level. This type of system reinforces itself, with ever crazier psychos pulling in others.
The extent of spying, lying and deceiving shows what our world has become: we are ruled by heartless, soulless, emotionless, powerhungry reptiles that are ready to push the button, after all, wouldn't it be nice if we would all just disappear, so they can have it all?
The whistleblowing is an actual danger to their status quo, and therefore I expect things to go crazy soon.
Whatever big happens in the coming weeks/months, remember not to fight each other...
Zimmerman acquittal will be the spark that ignites rioting and then martial law. We will fight each other much to the delight of the Leviathan.
Blacks
Hispanic Jews
Guess who will burn the most shit down?
"A society is in serious trouble when its political pariahs have at the core of their demands a return to the rule of law."
- Chris Hedges
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_election_march_of_the_trolls_20...
This didn't happen overnight, the last winning of the battle, though short, was when Andrew Jackson beat the banks, but ultimately the banks have won.
Trial by jury (the "jury box") is one of the last things that separates us from the barbarians. The ballot box and soap box are hopelessly rigged and compromised with money. "They" had better hope "we" don't resort to the ammunition box.