Will Americans wake up in time? I wish I could answer, “yes,” but I regret that Americans are an insouciant people. They are unaware. Americans are more concerned with sports events, sales, and which celebrities are sleeping together than they are with their liberty. Washington can create a police state, because there are insufficient citizens with the intelligence, education, and awareness to stop Washington.
Congress has accepted the police state and has given up too much of its power to the executive branch and is too beholden to the special interests that benefit from the police state to do anything about it.
The federal judiciary has proven to be almost as impotent. Federal judges did not ask federal prosecutors why, in violation of the whistleblower protection laws, they were prosecuting National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake for blowing the whistle on the NSA’s illegal spying on US citizens instead of the officials who broke the law and committed felonies. Judges did not ask why CIA agent John Kiriakou was prosecuted for blowing the whistle on the torture program instead of those who committed crimes by authorizing and committing torture.
The innocent and the truth-tellers were prosecuted. The criminals and the liars were not.
The destruction of truth and the law in the US is the legacy of 9/11. Both conservatives and the left-wing have bought into the government’s preposterous story that a few Saudi Arabians, unsupported by any government or intelligence agency, outwitted every institution of the National Security State and inflicted the most humiliating blow against a superpower in human history. They buy into this story despite unequivocal evidence that WTC building 7 came down at free fall acceleration, an event that can only occur as a result of controlled demolition.
But evidence and expert testimony no longer have authority in the US, which now has its own form of Lysenkoism.
Lysenko was a quack Soviet scientist, a charlatan who successfully persecuted Soviet geneticists for “setting themselves against Marxism” by not having a Marxist theory of genetics. Soviet geneticists were arrested and executed for being “against the people.” Even the world famous Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, was arrested and died in prison.
Americans don’t know any more about physics and structural architecture and engineering that the Soviet population and Stalin knew about genetics. Today “Lysenkoism” is used as a metaphor to denote the corruption of science in behalf of a social, political, or ideological purpose.
Lysenko used lies to gain power, just as Ponzi scheme operators use lies to gain wealth. Power is an Aphrodisiac, and everyone in Washington wants it. All indications are that they have it.
Liberty is disappearing before our eyes.
Expect no help from “progressives,” who believe in Obama more than they believe in liberty.
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org and has been used here with permission.
The underlying problem is that you move back and forth between the Obama and Bush admins. While true some Americans are unaware some are. When drone strikes kill people such as Anwar al-Awlaki who had planned and orchestrated the attempted bombing of the passenger jet many aware Americans see no problem in killing him. Its more efficient and less costly to use a drone versus sending special ops to kill him.
You miss the point. It isn’t about “cost”. One, there is no evidence that al-Awlaki “planned and orchestrated the attempted bombing of the passenger jet”, and, two, even if there was, targeted assassination is illegal and immoral.
The whole point is that drone strikes are themselves are subjective. Some would argue that more needs to be done to mitigate against civilian casualties. Most evidence points to the fact that he did plan the failed attack. In either case he was an avowed jihadist, ample video evidence, and he vowed to orchestrate other attacks. Again what one person would argue is illegal another would argue is within the grounds of a rational policy. Again more needs to be done to mitigate against civilian casualties.
Again, one, no evidence has been presented that he planned any attacks, and, two, extrajudicial assassinations are by definition illegal. What can be done to end the killing of innocent civilians is to stop the illegal drone attacks.
Any number of sources like the New York Times, Washington Post and yes even Al Jazeera point to his role in Al Qaeda and planning attacks against the US. But I guess if you don’t believe those sources probably think 9/11 was an inside job. But I digress. Illegal or not vast numbers of reasonable people view targeted strikes as an option in dealing with external threats.
The mainstream media like the NYT and WaPo also claimed that Iraq had WMD. I defer to my previous comment.
And about Al Jazeera? Not all media sources are in on some vast conspiracies….
My point remains.
On one side of this argument is the rule of law, on the other is the perverse logic of majoritarianism, resulting in the tyranny of the majority, an ever-changing feast of distorted “democracy.” Politicians or thinking people (?), whoever choose the latter do so at their peril.
We forget who created, funded and trained Al Qaeda. We also forget who brought them to the US and helped them set up money laundering operations to fund their terrorist activities in Bosnia/Serbia and then here. We did, of course.