WHO ARE THE REAL TRAITORS?
“I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.” – Edward Snowden
“If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of
freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams
There are weeks that change
the course of human history. There are weeks when people must choose
sides. There are weeks that expose the real American traitors. There is
no middle ground in this debate. You are either on the side of freedom,
liberty, truth, transparency and the U.S. Constitution or you are on the
side of mindless obedience, oppression, deception, corruption and
tyranny. A courageous young Millennial named Edward Snowden has risked
his life and his future to expose the illegal, surreptitious
surveillance programs being conducted by the United States government in
clear violation of the 4th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The NSA, with the full knowledge of Barack Obama and
Congress, has been covertly collecting phone and internet records on
millions of Americans with the full cooperation of Verizon and other
mega media/data corporations. Our owners have been using the U.S.
Constitution to wipe their asses. The 4th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution is so unambiguous that any intelligent politician,
bright journalist or fifth grader in Miss Sabatini’s history class could
interpret its meaning and intention. Our founding fathers believed in
truth, clarity and simplicity. The traitorous sociopaths in control of
our government today believe in obfuscation, ambiguity and complexity.
Living Constitution?
Do you believe the mass collection of metadata information from millions of Americans with no probable cause is an unreasonable search as defined by the 4th Amendment? Do you believe the complete lockdown of one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the country and the door to door search by heavily armed government security thugs for one wounded teenager, without warrants or probable cause, was a violation of the 4th Amendment? Do you believe secretive governmental agencies have the right to partner with the biggest internet/communications/mass media corporations in the world to record your phone calls, read your emails, and monitor your internet communications under the bogus justification of the War on Terror (you are more likely to be struck by lightning twice than to be killed by a terrorist)? Do you believe that government agencies tasked with revenue collection can be used to create an enemies list based upon whether you donated to the Ron Paul campaign, believe in liberty, or belong to a Tea Party organization? Do you believe allowing minimum wage government drones to molest little old ladies, paraplegics and three year old children, while conducting full body scans on all airline passengers really makes you safer from phantom terrorists? Do you believe having 30,000 high tech surveillance drones that can see you picking your nose in your driveway from 25,000 feet are not a violation of your privacy rights?Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall
issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized.
If you answered in the affirmative to any or all of the questions
above you are either a government apparatchik, someone dependent upon
the surveillance state for your paycheck, a victim of decades of mind
control through corporate mass media propaganda, or one of the willfully
ignorant masses. Of course the ignorant masses will not be reading
these questions as they are focused on the inbred royal family saga, Kim
Kardashian’s bastard child pregnancy, and the upcoming episodes of
Honey Boo Boo, Teen Mom, I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, Duck Dynasty,
Real Housewives of Idiocracy or paying $200 on their plastic debt
accumulator to watch multi-millionaire freaks of nature play children’s
games. Those who argue the U.S. Constitution is a living document open
to interpretation by the interchangeable corporate fascist parties that
control the reins of power at Versailles on the Potomac are nothing but
apologists for the corrupt status quo. The American people are provided
the illusion of choice by their owners, but the major policies are kept
intact – never ending war, never ending currency debasement, and never
ending screwing of the middle class.The revelations by Millennial martyr, Edward Snowden, about the PRISM program and the fact that the NSA harvests data directly from the servers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and other corporate co-conspirators came just days after disclosure that our Orwellian trained keepers had been shredding the 1st Amendment. The Obama administration has continuously flaunted the Bill of Rights when they interfere with their mission to create a centrally planned welfare/warfare state. Republicans don’t resist Obama’s efforts on Constitutional grounds, as they have no love for its constraints either. The seizure of AP reporter phone records in an effort to uncover leaks and to intimidate the free press, monitoring of reporter James Rosen using false information to obtain a warrant, and the computer hacking of lead Benghazi CBS reporter Cheryl Attkisson are clearly violations of the 1st Amendment.
There has been faux outrage among those in the establishment. It’s nothing but a game to entertain their rabid disciples. There is virtually no difference between the pretend parties who alternately operate as figurehead leadership in Washington D.C. Both parties cooperated to crush the peaceable assembly of young people exercising their right to petition the government about the blatant criminality of Wall Street bankers. The supposed Soros inspired OWS movement was subdued by Democratic mayors using their local military police hooligans, supported by the Federal surveillance state, in cooperation with the very same criminal Wall Street banks who had destroyed the worldwide financial system in their ransacking of the nation’s wealth through a well planned and executed control fraud.
The cheerleading of this disgusting display of fascist tactics by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg News told me everything I needed to know. Those within the status quo will circle the wagons whenever there is a threat to their wealth, power and control. If you make it onto the establishment’s enemies list, the Constitution will not protect you. The only true free speech is being exercised on the internet, for now. The plutocracy of wealthy corporate elite and their captured puppet politicians are attempting to crush dissent and free speech by restricting access to anti-establishment websites, introducing legislation to control the internet and as we now know hacking into sites considered enemies of the state. The guarantee of 1st Amendment protection has increasingly becoming a quaint old fashion notion in this fascist state.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.
The Constitution has been increasingly treated as an optional
instructional manual by what passes for leadership in this country. An
all-out assault has been waged on the 2nd Amendment by the
control freaks who want to create a national gun registry so they know
where to send their military assault teams when the time comes. Every
assault on our liberties, rights and freedoms is done on behalf of the
children. Sinclair Lewis once declared:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
He was wrong. Fascism has come to America, wrapped in fiat currency,
carrying a child as a prop, in the name of the War on Terrorism.
Presidents have been flaunting their disdain for Article One, Section
Eight of the Constitution since World War II. The Imperial American
Empire has been militarily enforcing its hegemony over the world since
the 1950’s without Congress ever declaring war, as required by the
Constitution. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria are just the
latest victims of our hypocritical interventionist state. Our predator
drones roam the skies above foreign countries murdering suspected bad
guys at the whim of PS3 trained gutless techno geeks sipping a decaf on
their 9 to 5 shift. The corrupt spineless swine in Congress expose
themselves as nothing more than bought off acolytes of the military
industrial complex warned about by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961:
“This conjunction of an immense
military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American
experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual —
is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal
government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet
we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil,
resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of
our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of
this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We
should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable
citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and
military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so
that security and liberty may prosper together.”
The citizens of this country have failed to heed his warning. We have
not been alert and to describe the narcissistic, delusional, math
challenged, willfully ignorant sheep, bleating for their safety and
security as knowledgeable is beyond laughable. Security and liberty have
not prospered together. The arms dealers formed an unholy alliance with
the Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks, their sugar daddy Federal
Reserve, easily bought off feckless political class, and sociopathic
government bureaucrats to create this corporate fascist welfare/warfare
state that has subverted our liberty while obscenely enriching the .1%
who have used their unwarranted influence in a traitorous manner. The
disastrous consequences for the world continue to build like the dome of
a volcano before it detonates and destroys everything in a fiery swath
of lava.New Boss Same As The Old Boss
“If people can’t trust not only the
executive branch, but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal
judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process
and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.” – Barack Obama
The nattering classes who dominate the boob tube spin the storylines of their corporate clients on a daily basis, but the uncovering of the deceitful activities of the ruling establishment by Edward Snowden have exposed the truth about who runs this country. Republicans, Democrats, neo-cons, ultra-liberals, Fox News, MSNBC, the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, military generals, and the government drones who monitor our phone calls, texts, emails and internet postings have all shown their true colors in the last week. They don’t care about truth, justice, or the American people. James Clapper lied during sworn testimony before Congress about spying on millions of Americans because he didn’t think he’d be caught. He was caught red handed. And no one is calling for his apprehension and imprisonment.
We are lied to, misled, misinformed, and inundated with falsehoods and propaganda on a daily basis by our leaders. The proof that we live in a plutocracy dominated by two corrupt political parties (with 250 millionaires in Congress), six Wall Street banks (JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs), six mass media companies (Comcast, Google, Walt Disney, News Corp., Time Warner, Viacom), seven arm dealers (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, L-3 Communications, United Technologies), a few politically connected mega-corporations (Exxon, General Electric, Verizon, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, IBM), and a few hundred shadowy billionaires is how they have unequivocally declared that Edward Snowden is a filthy high school dropout traitor. He has revealed secrets about how the lords of the manor keep the serfs and peasants under surveillance. Here is a smattering of the vitriol spewed about this American patriot:
“America is now a less safe place. The
world is a less safe place because of what Mr. Snowden unilaterally did.
He deserves to be prosecuted. I hope they find him in the hole that
he’s hiding in in Hong Kong and bring him home and try him.” – Karl Rove
“I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the earth to bring him to justice.” – Lindsey Graham
“For this, some, including my colleague
John Cassidy, are hailing him as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is
neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in
prison.” – Jeffrey Toobin – The New Yorker
“What he did was an act of treason.” – Diane Feinstein
“He’s a traitor.” – John Boehner
“I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I consider him right now to be a defector.” – Peter King
“There is an obligation both moral, but
also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which
would so severely compromise national security.” – Peter King
“I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.” – Al Franken
“For me it is literally, not
figuratively, literally, gut-wrenching to see this happen, because of
the huge, grave damage it does to our intelligence capabilities.” – James Clapper (Perjurer)
“We do not see a tradeoff between security and liberty.” – Keith Alexander – NSA Director
“The national security of the United
States has been damaged as a result those leaks. The safety of the
American people and the safety of people who reside in allied nations
have been put at risk as a result of these leaks.” – Eric Holder
“I think he’s a traitor. I’m suspicious
because he went to China. That’s not a place where you would ordinarily
want to go if you are interested in freedom, liberty and so forth. It
raises questions whether or not he had that kind of connection before he
did this.” – Dick Cheney – The Dark Lord
“And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” – Mitch McConnell
“Now you’ve got this 29-year-old high
school dropout whistleblower making foreign policy for our country, our
security policy. It’s sad, Brian. We’ve made treason cool. Betraying
your country is kind of a fashion statement. He wants to be the national
security Kim Kardashian. He cites Bradley Manning as a hero. I mean, we
need to get very, very serious about treason. And oh by the way, for
treason — as in the case of Bradley Manning or Edwards Snowden — you
bring back the death penalty.” – Fox and Friends
“Can intelligence operate effectively if every starry-eyed analyst feels entitled to be a self-appointed whistle-blower?” – Gary Rosen – The Wall Street Journal
“Edward Snowden should go to jail, as quickly and for as long as possible.” – John Yoo – The National Review.
“I think on three scores—that is
leaking the Patriot Act section 215, FISA 702, and the president’s
classified cyber operations’ directive—on the strength of leaking that,
yes, that would be a prosecutable offense. I think that he should be
prosecuted.” – Nancy Pelosi
“Who is a journalist is a question we
need to ask ourselves. Is any blogger out there saying anything – do
they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our
times.” – Lindsey Graham
“This lens makes you more likely to share the distinct strands of libertarianism that are blossoming in this fragmenting age: the
deep suspicion of authority, the strong belief that hierarchies and
organizations are suspect, the fervent devotion to transparency, the
assumption that individual preference should be supreme. You’re
more likely to donate to the Ron Paul for president campaign, as Snowden
did. But Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another
is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the
fraying of the social fabric and the rise of people who are so
individualistic in their outlook that they have no real understanding of
how to knit others together and look after the common good.” – David Brooks
It seems the ruling oligarchs, their mouthpieces in the mainstream
media (both conservative & liberal), Machiavellian politicians on
both sides of the aisle, unscrupulous military commanders and deceitful
government bureaucrats have all rallied to shield their existing
perverted surveillance state. These people actually believe that what is
best for their own personal interests is best for the citizens of this
country. There is only one Party – the Establishment Party. The smear
campaign against Edward Snowden began immediately. The vitriolic
accusations, venomous scorn, malicious ridicule and pathetic attempts to
discredit Edward Snowden for sacrificing everything on behalf of the
country he loves has revealed more truth about how the real world
operates than the thousands of articles written by supposed “conspiracy
theorists” over the last decade. Anyone with their eyes open and mind
not controlled by the regime know the real criminals in this tragedy.
Leon Trotsky, who also participated in a brutal fascist surveillance
state, put it best:
“The real criminals hide under the cloak of the accusers.”
In a country where those in power encourage and participate in the
plundering of people’s bank accounts by billionaires, the largest
financial control fraud in world history by the biggest Wall Street
banks, treating every citizen as a suspect until proven otherwise under
the auspices of the ironically named Patriot Act, creating an Orwellian
surveillance state of cameras, drones and snitches, torturing suspected
enemies, conducting military exercises in the skies above our cities,
seizing reporters’ personal records, using government agencies to harass
political opponents, listening to our phone calls with warrantless
wiretaps, reading our emails and texts, brutally crushing peaceful
protests, attempting to disarm us, locking down an entire city and
kicking doors down while searching for a hapless wounded teenager,
appropriating our DNA, detaining us without charges, assassinating
suspected dissidents, regulating what we can eat, drink or smoke,
passing 2,500 page corporate lobbyist written bills that no one has
read, using laws to enhance the wealth of the .1%, creating a tax code
designed to minimize the burden on the .1%, the feeding of economic
information by the Fed and Federal government to connected crony banks
minutes before the public so they can pre-program their HFT computers to
profit at the expense of the muppets, conducting cyber-attacks on
sovereign countries and then feigning outrage when the favor is
returned, and militarily intervening around the world under the false
guise of strategic interests, we are supposed to trust the
establishment? As we descend further into tyranny, I don’t know which is
sadder – the pure evil of these men or the apathy and complacent
acquiescence of the willfully ignorant masses to the methods employed by
their owners. The numerous laws passed by those in power are just more
proof of how corrupt our society has become.
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus
The threat of tyranny was still raw in 1975, after the Watergate
cover-up, when Senator Frank Church warned about the National Security
Agency:
“I know the capacity that is there to
make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency
and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and
under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That
is the abyss from which there is no return.”
Again, we failed to heed his warning. We’ve crossed over the abyss
and the vision of our future will be the boot of a DHS thug stomping on
the face of an American citizen – forever.True Ruling Power of Our Country
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
Whenever I would use the term oligarchs, ruling elite, powers that be, owners, .1%, or ruling class, it always sounded too conspiratorial. But after years of reading the writings of Edward Bernays, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ron Paul, George Carlin and a number of other “crazy” bloggers, while witnessing with my own two eyes what is happening in this country, I’ve come to the conclusion that our country is run by an invisible government consisting of a small cadre of rich powerful men who manipulate, obfuscate, eliminate and fabricate in their insatiable greed for glory, riches, power and control. They thought they had perfected the art of propaganda:
“The conscious and intelligent
manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an
important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this
unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is
the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are
molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have
never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our
democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must
cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly
functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in
the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our
ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of
persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the
masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays
The disclosure of the unholy alliance of corporations and the
government to secretly spy on millions of Americans, while attempting to
intimidate journalists and crush dissent from political opponents, is
throwing the master plan of the ruling elite into disarray. The
conspiracy of silence and denial is fraying at the edges as the truth
continues to leak out:
“The contents of a phone call could be
accessed simply based on an analyst deciding that. If the NSA wants to
listen to the phone, an analyst’s decision is sufficient, without any
other legal authorization required.” – Democratic Rep Jerrold Nadler
There have been a few lone voices in the wilderness warning about the
rise of this corporate fascist surveillance one party state, but they
have been scorned, ridiculed, marginalized and ignored. It seems the
libertarian minded men and women of this country have been right all
along.
“We’ve slipped away from a true republic. Now
we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of
government, big business and authoritarian rule, and the suppression of
the individual rights of each and every American citizen. When it comes
to any significant differences on foreign policy, economic intervention,
the Federal Reserve, a strong executive branch, a welfarism mixed with
corporatism, both parties are very much alike. The major arguments in
hotly contested presidential races are mostly for public consumption to
convince the people they actually have a choice.” – Ron Paul
True liberty minded Americans and those who value freedom and the Constitution have rallied to the defense of a true patriot. “We the People” must reclaim this country from the unelected .1% who has conducted a silent coup while we were pre-occupied with our techno-narcissism and consumed by the urge to consume. We have an omnipotent outlaw government with concentrated overwhelming power. The out of control bureaucracy devouring treasure, the blood of our young, civil rights, and the Constitution will not yield of its own volition. When the government tyrants classify all of us as enemies of the state, it is time to dismantle the state and water the tree of liberty with some blood, if that is what is required.
“Perfect safety is not the purpose of
government. What we want from government is to enforce the law to
protect our liberties. The government does not need to know more about
what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is
doing. We need to turn the cameras on the police and on the government,
not the other way around. We should be thankful for writers like Glenn
Greenwald, who broke last week’s story, for taking risks to let us know
what the government is doing. There are calls for the persecution of
Greenwald and the other whistle-blowers and reporters. They should be
defended, as their work defends our freedom.” – Ron Paul
The country is being run like a mafia crime family. The Don and his
family of criminals operate in secrecy, eliminating their opponents,
buying off the press, bribing the police for protection, running the
rackets, and collecting their tribute from those that want to do
business with them. They go to war against the other families whenever
they want to expand their turf. The country has been captured by an
organized crime syndicate and it will require an Elliot Ness type
character with many strident Constitutionalists to rid the land of these
evil, lawless, egocentric men. One of those evil men slithered out of
his lair onto the neo-con network – Fox News – to declare Edward Snowden
a traitor and spy. Mr. Snowden responded to chicken-hawk Dick
“Deferment” Cheney during another freedom of the press in a foreign
country event:
“Further, it’s important to bear in
mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick
Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a
kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a
conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans,
as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by
Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more
panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the
better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.“
Who has done more to shred the Constitution and strip us of rights,
liberties and freedoms in the last thirteen years – Cheney or Snowden?This brings us to the question of our times. Who are the patriots and who are the traitors? Those in power have been using the Bernaysian propaganda technique of conscious and intelligent manipulation of the public mind by using the corporate media to convince the distracted ignorant masses that Edward Snowden has committed treason against his country and should be punished for his crime. Interestingly enough, treason is addressed in Article III Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution:
Treason against the United States,
shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their
Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of
Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act,
or on Confession in open Court.
At the same time it would make sense to define the term patriot:
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
Does Edward Snowden fit the definition of a traitor as described in
the Constitution? The shallow vacuous pundits in the corporate
mainstream media complex blather on about treason while focusing their
in-depth journalism on pictures of Snowden’s girlfriend from her
Facebook page. This is what passes for journalism in America today. A
man uncovers the largest spying conspiracy in human history and highly
paid mouthpieces for the establishment focus on pole dancing. The last
time I checked, Congress hadn’t declared war on anyone, so Snowden isn’t
a traitor under that clause. He must be providing aid and comfort to
our enemies. Who are the enemies today? They seem to change on a daily
basis. I guess since we are considered potential enemies of the state,
his revelations were giving the citizens of the United States aid and
comfort.On the other hand, a patriot is someone who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice on its behalf against those who would damage or hurt that country. The government of the United States (President, Congress, Judiciary), in conjunction with their corporate, banking and media co-conspirators have knowingly and willingly subverted the Constitution of the United States and have therefore committed treasonous acts that have endangered the rights, freedoms and liberties of the people. A corrupt regime will use their thousands of laws to ensnare anyone in some violation of those laws. But at the end of the day a critical thinking individual knows right from wrong without being told by a government bureaucrat. Edward Snowden is a patriot of the highest order. His act of heroism, knowing he would be despised, attacked and hunted down by the American Thugocracy, is on par with the actions of our Founding Fathers who knew they would be hung if their Revolution failed. A true patriot must be ready to defend his country against a tyrannical government. Edward Snowden just dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor.
Edward Snowden is standing up to the autocratic powers that have seized control of our Constitutional Republic. Other patriots (Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Aaron Swartz, Daniel Ellsberg) have sacrificed their careers and lives to reveal the truth about government corruption and malfeasance. Ben Franklin pondered whether we could keep the Republic they had given us. He understood human nature and the likelihood that we as a people would become corrupted, vote for people who promised us the most, and would willingly sacrifice our independence, freedom, liberty and rights for the presumed safety and security of a despotic government:
“In these sentiments, sir, I agree to
this Constitution with all its faults; if they are such; because I think
a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of
government but what may be a blessing to the people if well
administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well
administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as
other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so
corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”
Words of a Traitor?
“…I can’t in good conscience allow the
US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties
for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine
they’re secretly building.” – Edward Snowden
The key terms are “good conscience” and “secretly”. Doing what is
right does not mean doing what the authorities declare to be the law.
Edward Snowden has a conscience. Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, James
Clapper, John McCain, Diane Feinstein, Ben Bernanke, Jon Corzine, Jamie
Dimon and the rest of the sociopathic criminal governing class have no
conscience. Their souls are blackened with their crimes and misdeeds. In
our Bizarro world, Nobel Peace Prize winners slaughter Muslim children
indiscriminately with their squadrons of killer drones. Those in power
are allowed to operate in the shadows, hiding anything that might
incriminate them and secretly spying on millions of citizens without
probable cause, while we the people have no right to privacy or freedom
from surveillance in this plutocracy. We are all suspects in the eyes of
the state and can be terminated at the whim of a government
apparatchik:
“Because even if you’re not doing
anything wrong you’re being watched and recorded. And the storage
capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders
of magnitude … to where it’s getting to the point where you don’t have
to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under
suspicion from somebody – even by a wrong call. And then they can use
this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever
made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with. And attack you
on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and
paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.” – Edward Snowden
Our greatest fear at this point in history is the continued apathy,
ignorance, slothfulness, and delusional thinking of our narcissistic
populace regarding the most important issue of our time – freedom or
tyranny? Will enough people stand and fight the encroaching surveillance
state and the evil men pulling the levers? Change will not happen
through the ballots box, as the system is rigged and the democratic
process has been subverted. It will require patriots taking to the
streets and more people like Edward Snowden stepping forward to lead us
back out of the abyss into which we have fallen. Time is growing short.
Will we rise to the occasion or will we cower and wait until the satanic
Eye of Sauron turns in our direction?
“The great fear that I have regarding
the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will
change. [People] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand
up and fight to change things… And in the months ahead, the years ahead,
it’s only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that… because of the
crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted
threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be
nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be
turnkey tyranny.” – Edward Snowden
“I do not expect to see home again.” – Edward Snowden
Over the course of decades we have allowed ourselves to be corrupted
by the love of material possessions, the lure of a debt based faux
wealth, the money for nothing entitlement promises of dishonorable
politicians, the evil of currency debasement, the effectiveness of mass
media propaganda, and the belief that we could sacrifice freedom and
liberty for promises of safety and security made by a cabal of powerful
rich men. Power has been concentrated into the hands of the few, who
operate in secrecy and despise the people. They don’t want transparency
or open debate. Freedom of speech is nothing but a thorn in their side.
They believe they are smarter than the serfs and have no morality when
it comes to committing illegal acts and disregarding the Constitution.
They are not acting in the public interest. Their abuse of power and
looting of the national wealth have put us on a path towards a bloody
revolution. This is not a time for conformity, obedience or submission.
It’s time to stand up and expose the evil doers. It’s time to rally
around those who care about this country. Who are the real traitors? You
know the answer. What are you going to do about it?
“The issue boils down to this: do we
care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability?
Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for?
Do we care that average Americans are being looted in order to subsidize
the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care? When
the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means
standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and
the media? Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a
people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.” – Ron Paul
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