"In other words, Snowden did what
Americans are supposed to do --disclose government crimes against the
Constitution and against citizens. Without a free press there is nothing
but the government’s lies. In order to protect its lies from exposure,
Washington intends to exterminate all truth tellers."
July 23, 2013
Role Reversal: How the US Became
the USSR
Paul Craig Roberts
I spent the summer of 1961 behind the Iron Curtain. I was part of the
US-USSR student exchange program. It was the second year of the program
that operated under auspices of the US Department of State. Our return to
the West via train through East Germany was interrupted by the
construction of the Berlin Wall. We were sent back to Poland. The East
German rail tracks were occupied with Soviet troop and tank trains as the
Red Army concentrated in East Germany to face down any Western
interference.
Fortunately, in those days there were no neoconservatives. Washington had
not grown the hubris it so well displays in the 21st century. The wall
was built and war was avoided. The wall backfired on the Soviets. Both
JFK and Ronald Reagan used it to good propaganda effect.
In those days America stood for freedom, and the Soviet Union for
oppression. Much of this impression was created by Western propaganda,
but there was some semblance to the truth in the image. The communists
had a Julian Assange and an Edward Snowden of their own. His name was
Cardinal Jozef Mindszenty, the leader of the Hungarian Catholic Church.
Mindszenty opposed tyranny. For his efforts he was imprisoned by the
Nazis. Communists also regarded him as an undesirable, and he was
tortured and given a life sentence in 1949.
Freed by the short-lived Hungarian Revolution in 1956, Mindszenty reached
the American Embassy in Budapest and was granted political asylum by
Washington. However, the communists would not give him the free passage
that asylum presumes, and Mindszenty lived in the US Embassy for 15
years, 79% of his remaining life.
In the 21st century roles have reversed. Today it is Washington that is
enamored of tyranny. On Washington’s orders, the UK will not permit
Julian Assange free passage to Ecuador, where he has been granted asylum.
Like Cardinal Mindszenty, Assange is stuck in the Ecuadoran Embassy in
London.
Washington will not permit its European vassal states to allow
overflights of airliners carrying Edward Snowden to any of the countries
that have offered Snowden asylum. Snowden is stuck in the Moscow airport.
In Washington politicians of both parties demand that Snowden be captured
and executed. Politicians demand that Russia be punished for not
violating international law, seizing Snowden, and turning him over to
Washington to be tortured and executed, despite the fact that Washington
has no extradition treaty with Russia.
Snowden did United States citizens a great service. He told us that
despite constitutional prohibition, Washington had implemented a
universal spy system intercepting every communication of every American
and much of the rest of the world. Special facilities are built in which
to store these communications.
In other words, Snowden did what Americans are supposed to do --disclose
government crimes against the Constitution and against citizens. Without
a free press there is nothing but the government’s lies. In order to
protect its lies from exposure, Washington intends to exterminate all
truth tellers.
The Obama Regime is the most oppressive regime ever in its prosecution of
protected whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are protected by law, but the
Obama Regime insists that whistleblowers are not really whistleblowers.
Instead, the Obama Regime defines whistleblowers as spies, traitors, and
foreign agents. Congress, the media, and the faux judiciary echo the
executive branch propaganda that whistleblowers are a threat to America.
It is not the government that is violating and raping the US Constitution
that is a threat. It is the whistleblowers who inform us of the rape who
are the threat.
The Obama Regime has destroyed press freedom. A lackey federal appeals
court has ruled that NY Times reporter James Risen must testify in the
trial of a CIA officer charged with providing Risen with information
about CIA plots against Iran. The ruling of this fascist court destroys
confidentiality and is intended to end all leaks of the government’s
crimes to media.
What Americans have learned in the 21st century is that the US government
lies about everything and breaks every law. Without whistleblowers,
Americans will remain in the dark as “their” government enserfs them,
destroying every liberty, and impoverishes them with endless wars for
Washington’s and Wall Street’s hegemony.
Snowden harmed no one except the liars and traitors in the US government.
Contrast Washington’s animosity against Snowden with the pardon that Bush
gave to Dick Cheney aide, Libby, who took the fall for his boss for
blowing the cover, a felony, on a covert CIA operative, the spouse of a
former government official who exposed the Bush/Cheney/neocon lies about
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Whatever serves the tiny clique that rules america is legal; whatever
exposes the criminals is illegal.
That’s all there is to it.
http://bit.ly/17EhFjr
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