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DEFIANCE Whistleblowers Arise - Points on US Military Intelligence,
Commander Bradley Manning Medal of Honor & Crikey Article Edition
1stly, it's not
really that funny that the 'net is being stubborn with this article's
site, as it's only the 2nd day back on the “Telstra”
mobile wireless broadband network, and that the operative I spend
over an hour talking to on Friday, was the same Filipino hussy who
had messed me around disastrously uptil 2 years ago, the time I went
over to Virgin wireless broadband - which has been faultlessly
excellent, but for less coverage to Telstra's network.
For over 20 years
I've known Telstra has ASIO operatives inside it's head office tower
in central Melbourne, who have been shamelessly and with psychotic
fanaticism monitoring Australians' telecomms.
So it's no
surprise that I, Australia's most “out-there” but “below the
radar” all-the-while quite IN-YER-FACE Investigative
Journalist and Supporter of WikiLeaks and the likes of COMMANDER
Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Et Al, get a hard time of it when I
have any use for the appallingly low standard Telstra telecomm
networks.
As I said in a
deep, low, slow tone to another internet technician after the same
Filipino female failed to solve the problem,
“You're
working for the dark side, Luke!” to whit he laughed a lot,
knowing who I was imitating, and who I was referring to.
However..,
Were the
Google-bots which monitor these blog pages capable, they could surf
back through this blog to find my own e-ssays going to the same
points this excellent article from Crikey addresses, about the
increase in public recognition, and thus support for the likes of
Manning and Snowden.
As Bernard says
here, something of a critical mass has been reached.
Well..., maybe
not THE critical mass, enough for 200 million American citizens and
military personnel arm-in-arm to storm the Pentagon - with ropes -
but yes, Ed Snowden, but of course, Brad Manning, and never to forget
Senator Assange, have breached the previously delusive unbreachable
defenses of the US administration and it's rather psychotic abuse of
surveillance technology and methods, and so we can yet be optimistic
that 1, THE PEOPLE SHALL PREVAIL in Justice and the furtherance of
the securing of our Freedoms, and 2, this significantly increases the
likelihood that Bradley Manning and Julian Assange will be
exonerated, even from as high up as the Pentagon's honchos, perhaps,
as I intend calling for, from the White House, with “Barra”
giving the order to release Manning, and cease all security attempts
to bring down/bring-in Assange.
All these three
[and never to forget the support teams and networks especially
Assange had and has] will be seen sooner-than-later, that they ARE
friends of even mainstream Americans, for their own Courage, Honor
and Rightmindedness in pursuing and exposing the clearly evil games
of the administration and their CORPORATE masters and allies.
Whether this all
brings yer av'rage American to recognize that indeed the demon is in
capitalism and it's insatiable goals, thus that Socialism is in fact
the better, more stable, more equitable way for them to govern
themselves, is quite another “leap of faith” no doubt.
I don't suggest
that any of these Genuine Heroes, unlike the false heroes promoted by
hOLLYWOOD, have Socialist tendencies or ideals.
Unashamedly, I
repeat that I do have and hold to the Deepest RED-Blooded COMMUNISM.
The fact that I
have come to detest most fellow, predominantly WHITEGUY Human Beings
and their insane minds and culture, might be beside my point.
And I DO have
serious doubts that I could live my professed Socialism, because I
think you're all fucking nuts, and now, after 58 years of
BOOOLLLLSHSHSHIT, prefer my own company, to those who greaze and lie
and hex.
Nevertheless....!
Cleaning up the planet, of about 5,000 years of inculcation’s
toward talking shit, by whiteguy, is a farcical call.
But this does not
mean we can walk away from doing what we can to clean up the planet.
While the likes
of the world's TRUE Heroes [LISTEN UP hOLLYWOOD!!!?]
Assange-WikiLeaks, Manning, Snowden, Kiriakou, Et Al, Et Al, see it
as their Duty, to All, we can be inspired, and act similarly
fearlessly for their Guidance.
And, it is not a
far-fetched concept to see a large majority of yer Av'rage Jo's
hitting the street PROTESTS as part and parcel of their Duty to
Democracy, when word of psychotic maniacs in authority acting out,
gets around the 'burbs.
“Presidential
Decree”, it might just be, MISTA President?
RELEASE PRIVATE
FIRST CLASS BRADLEY MANNING!
Compensate Him,
AND, Promote Him, Please?
A Medal of Honor,
for his Clear-Thinking, Courage, Sight of Duty, and Right Thought,
Right Action, is also Due Him.
But...? What do
we do with the prosecution???
Determining that
the actual, real and present ENEMY of American Citizens, are the
CORPORATIONS sponsoring and profiting from the two illegal invasions
of Iraq and Afghanistan, then we also rightly determine that the
CORPORATIONS, and their heads, and operatives within the Pentagon and
ancillary forces'/services' intelligence offices, are guilty of
“AIDING THE ENEMY”.
Therefore...., it
would be right that they be executed, were it not for the roaringly
clear fact, that they are quite, quite insane!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!
Crikey Australia
“And, yes,
Manning is a whistleblower. For all the efforts of WikiLeaks’
critics, and those who so passionately loathed Julian Assange that
anyone indirectly linked to him became a target of contumely as well,
to suggest Manning simply tipped gigabytes of secret material onto
the internet — indeed, published them “wantonly” — bear
in mind what he revealed. He showed us war crimes,
demonstrated by the “Collateral Murder” video (in
relation to which, the only person to be jailed has been Manning), a
video Reuters had been trying to obtain through freedom of
information for years; he gave us the Iraq war logs, which
revealed the horrific official body count of the invasion and
occupation of that country and abuse and torture by US forces; the
Afghan war logs, which revealed instances such as US
contractors engaging in child trafficking and special
forces operations inside Pakistan that had been denied by the US
government; and, in painfully embarrassing detail, the
systematic use of the State Department around the world to engage in
espionage, promote the interests of US corporations at any cost
and support regimes that even the US acknowledged were
corrupt.”
Here's the full
article:
Manning and
whistleblowing in an age of persecution and indifference
by Bernard Keane,
www.crikey.com.au
Aug 01, 2013
12:42PM
The indifference
of the US media to the case of Bradley Manning hasn’t prevented him
from exposing the security state or influencing other whistleblowers.
So US Army
private Bradley Manning didn’t “aid the enemy”, according to
his military judge. Why, we don’t know — we haven’t seen
the judicial reasoning yet. It might be that the charge itself — that
publishing anything confidential that happens to be seen by someone
with whom the United States is at war falls under the Espionage
Act — was regarded by Judge Denise Lind as absurd. Or she might
regard the charge as appropriate, but not proven, in Manning’s
particular case.
That has,
however, allowed nearly all of the US mainstream media to get on with
ignoring the Manning case, something they’ve done since word that
he’d been arrested leaked out in 2010. The trial was conducted at
Fort Meade, in Maryland, not too far from Baltimore-Washington
Airport — not exactly difficult to get to for the east coast US
media, but mainstream media attendance at a trial at which the media
was an unindicted co-conspirator has been scant. Independent
journalists like Alexa O’Brien who have attended have been
subjected to absurd and highly restrictive conditions.
Manning was,
however, found guilty of “wanton publication”.
“Wanton
publication” is a charge invented purely for this case by the US
government. Go and google it — the only existence of the phrase
before Manning’s trial was in the 19th century when “wanton”
was used in a different and more lascivious sense. If journalists,
American or otherwise, think it’s a relief that a whistleblower
wasn’t deemed to be “aiding the enemy”, they ought to wonder
exactly what “wanton publication” could amount to.
And, yes, Manning
is a whistleblower. For all the efforts of WikiLeaks’ critics, and
those who so passionately loathed Julian Assange that anyone
indirectly linked to him became a target of contumely as well, to
suggest Manning simply tipped gigabytes of secret material onto the
internet — indeed, published them “wantonly” — bear
in mind what he revealed. He showed us war crimes, demonstrated by
the “Collateral Murder” video (in relation to which, the only
person to be jailed has been Manning), a video Reuters had been
trying to obtain through freedom of information for years; he gave us
the Iraq war logs, which revealed the horrific official body count of
the invasion and occupation of that country and abuse and torture by
US forces; the Afghan war logs, which revealed instances such as US
contractors engaging in child trafficking and special forces
operations inside Pakistan that had been denied by the US government;
and, in painfully embarrassing detail, the systematic use of the
State Department around the world to engage in espionage, promote the
interests of US corporations at any cost and support regimes that
even the US acknowledged were corrupt.
How many people
died as a result of Manning’s revelations? The US government
initially claimed he had placed large numbers of people in danger
around the world. But under oath yesterday at Manning’s sentencing
hearing, Brigadier General Robert Carr, who headed the taskforce
investigating the impact of the WikiLeaks material, admitted that
after exhaustive work the taskforce could find no one who had been
killed or injured. One of his former subordinates, however, claimed
that there had been “some unpleasant comments directed at me and at
the US” by allied officials.
Indeed, as former
defense secretary Robert Gates said, the harm alleged to have ensued
from the documents’ release was “significantly overwrought”.
Why the
prosecution for espionage, the attempt to establish that good
journalism could be treason, the psychological torture and physical
abuse of Manning during his incarceration? It’s all designed to
send a powerful signal to any other whistleblower who might be
tempted to reveal war crimes, or torture, or the actions of diplomats
serving as corporate shills: this is what will happen even if you
merely embarrass us.
The pursuit of
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the increasingly bizarre
attempts by the United States to secure him, including having the
Bolivian President’s plane forced down, and assuring the Russians
the US wouldn’t kill or torture him if they handed him over, serve
the same purpose, as have the pursuit of Fox and Associated Press
journalists. As I’ve explored previously, this form of exemplary
punishment is consistent US policy, especially in relation to online
activism.
Perhaps this
aggressive pursuit and persecution of whistleblowers — and the
Obama administration has pursued unofficial leakers more aggressively
than any previous administration, and indeed more than all previous
administrations combined — has deterred some whistleblowers
from speaking out. It didn’t deter Snowden, who knew exactly what
fate awaited him when he decided to reveal the extraordinary extent
of secret US internet and telecommunications spying. He went ahead,
kicking off a debate that, inter alia, brought the House of
Representatives within a few votes of choking off NSA funding, caused
the author of the Patriot Act and many other congressional figures to
declare that the surveillance exceeded the legal authority provided
by Congress, and resulted in the establishment and libertarian wings
of the Republican Party hurling abuse at each other over whether
surveillance was justified.
Snowden’s
revelations didn’t emerge through WikiLeaks, but through the
mainstream media — The Guardian (albeit via Glenn Greenwald,
who has been pursuing these issues for years in other media) and The
Washington Post. Such is the Stockholm syndrome prevalent in parts of
the US media that the Post’s role in breaking the story was
criticised by its own editorial board, while other journalists
appeared to endorse calls for Greenwald to be prosecuted.
Given those
extraordinary reactions to a story that has prompted such extensive
debate in Congress, the US media’s lack of interest in the Manning
case, even when it involved such high stakes for them, starts to
become clear.
Even so,
whistleblowers like Manning and Snowden — heroes both — have
exposed the security state in all its absurdity and horror, both in
their revelations and in their subsequent treatment, whether the US
media wants to know or not.
[TAGS: Online,
United States , Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, surveillance, US
government, whistleblowers, Wikileaks ]
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