Shooting the Messengers

It’s over. It’s done. That’s it. The party is over.

If anyone had any doubt whatsoever that the US regime and its paranoid and schizophrenic state security apparatus have lost their minds, this should no longer be a question after the utterly disgusting way in which they have dealt with Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.

These two brave men blew the lid off the secret and vicious world of US government deceitfulness and criminality.

From exposing US military atrocities in Iraq, diplomatic backstabbing and secret but illegal eavesdropping by the NSA on millions of people inside and outside the US, these two individuals have exposed the the ugly reality of US behavior which was hidden underneath a carefully-crafted mask of benevolence.

What Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden gave us is the most rank hypocrisy and deceit ever exposed. From covered up war crimes committed by the US in Iraq, to embarrassing and mean-spirited and two-faced diplomatic intrigues to mass-surveillance of peoples’ digital lives. It also exposed a shameless and bat-shit crazy US government so devious and arrogant that they even spied on foreign heads of state during international conferences.

These three individuals have done more damage to US credibility than all the Al Qaedas and terrorists out there could never do. And the punch line is that they did nothing more than tell the truth.

That’s the bottom line about all these revelations: They are the plain albeit ugly truth about how comical and farcical the US regime and its policies have become.

While America’s vassal state governments in the EU have been whining about the fact that they have been spied on by the NSA, they brought all this upon themselves by getting too cozy with US intelligence and military apparatus over the decades. Any such cooperation should have been nixed after 1991 and Europe should have never looked back.

And these dumbasses are allowing the NSA to build huge monitoring centers right on European soil! Are these EU governments bi-polar or something? They are only inviting even more abuses.

Of course, the US government spin machine, together with the pathetic mass-media in this country, have gone into full-on and relentless damage control. They have tried to desperately justify these eavesdropping programs by insisting that they stopped some terrorist attacks (without providing evidence, of course, because its secret) and have also tried to deflect attention from the obvious US government wrong-doing by demonizing and slandering Edward Snowden and by calling him a traitor and a thief. They have also issued threats against any country which tries to give him refuge.

Now let’s reverse the situation.

If a Russian intelligence analyst fled to Canada seeking asylum, with laptops full of classified Russian intelligence, Canada would grant it to him immediately and the US, as well as all the US vassal states in the EU, would do so as well.

None of these countries would have any second thoughts or be worried about "ruining relations with Russia" by giving him asylum and protection regardless of what Russia says. Plus, the US would demonize Russia incessantly day and night for trying to demand the return of the leaker and for doing anything to block him from traveling. For doing so, Russia would be constantly slandered by the US government and the worthless US media as an undemocratic country which still behaves like a Stalinist dictatorship.

There would be no end to it. Pathetic cretins like Senator “Insane” McCain, LOUSY Graham as well as pro-US/Israel talking shitheads like Alan Dershowitz, Charles Krauthammer and other neo-con subhuman filth would go into spastic orgasms trying to vilify anything Russian.

If Russia dared to threaten any country with sanctions or violence for sheltering a Russian dissident, it would be pilloried and embarrassed at the UN and internationally isolated.

Such is the hypocrisy that rules the day in the good ole’ US of A.

Russia has recently granted Ed Snowden temporary 1-year asylum. This decision has got the US regime fuming. From the start they have embarrassed themselves and served as their own worst enemies by engaging in public temper-tantrums and foot-stomping whining worthy of a petulant and spoiled child who did not get that second scoop of ice cream at the state fair.

Ever since, US State Dept. and assorted congress clowns have been wagging their fingers at Russia and threatening it with “consequences” and some possible sanctions. They also attempted to have US Attorney General Eric Holder try to play the proverbial good cop by writing a letter to the Russian government promising not to torture Edward Snowden if Russia extradites him and that he will get a fair trial.

Yeah. They won’t torture him.

Just like they didn’t hold Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for two years under degrading conditions and try to force him to falsely implicate Julian Assange and make him into some sort of Al Qaeda’s PR guy (unlike those US government officials who as I write this propagandize and support Al Qaeda-linked rebels with money, training and weapons in Syria); and just like they did not keep Jose Padilla in solitary confinement and under psychological torment for years, and just like they did not set Assange up with false rape charges to force him out so he can be extradited, for committing no crime against the US!

I think that the main reason for the anti-Russian whining coming out of US government officials mouths is that it is bad PR for the US that Edward Snowden chose Russia as a refuge. Doing so makes Russia look good. It invalidates years of US propaganda that Russia is a country lacking democracy and human rights and ran by a dictatorial regime which does not care about international law.

But the US has unwittingly applied those anti-Russian stereotypes to itself by its abhorrent behavior towards Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers.

If there is only one lesson to be learned from all these intelligence leaks, it is that American promises are worth their weight in used toilet paper.

But at least Mr. US Attorney General admitted that the US tortures people, or else he would have not made this promise regarding Edward Snowden.

Russia did the right and honorable thing by sheltering Snowden and Russian officials from President Putin on down need to stop with ridiculous self-doubt and self-recrimination. It is a waste of time and only clouds good sense and judgment they have. It is the US that deserves to feel embarrassed.

And this brings us to the most important point of all.

The bad guy in this entire Edward Snowden affair is not Edward Snowden. The bad guy is the US government.

The US government illegally eavesdropped, and continues to eaves drop, on electronic and voice communications of millions of people worldwide, including the US.

Edward Snowden did not decide on his own volition to use his abilities to “hack” peoples’ computers and phones and then took that information. The US government ordered him, and many others like him, to do this.

Edward Snowden exposed government wrong-doing; he did not initiate it.

So therefore, it is the US government that is the guilty culprit, and it must be the target of people’ ire and condemnation, not the messenger who told the world the truth and exposed a horrible wrong.

Anyone who tries to defend this blatantly illegal US government eavesdropping, and criticizes the whistleblowers who bring this illegality into public light, is a fascist whore with less than zero percent credibility. They are nut cases who should be kept from any and all positions of authority anywhere.

People who punish and torment whistleblowers in the US, from Obama on down, are shaming themselves and every person who lives here. They are also shaming and contradicting the constitution they swore to uphold, but which they violate by engaging in this mass-surveillance.

The amount of vitriol, hatred and primeval thirst for revenge Obama and other officials of the current US regime have shown for whistleblowers and truth-tellers like Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden would make the most hardened Stalinist cringe.

It’s one thing to torment truth-tellers in your own land, but when a country becomes so arrogant and spiteful that it demands and threatens other nations for refusing to hand over someone in their custody, orders them to ground planes of foreign heads of state based on mere suspicion that the plane may be carrying a dissident, forcing people to be holed up in embassies indefinitely for fear of being arrested and tapping the phones and computers of millions of people, that is just a sign of unaddressed major psychological problems, deep insecurities and overwhelming but hidden guilt.

The US government has gotten so used to breaking the law during the last thirteen plus years that it now automatically expects other countries to disregard their laws to accommodate US demands, no matter how disgusting and illegal these demands are.

To the US, the only law that exists and matters is that others must do what the US wants. Those foreign governments who do not are breaking the law in the eyes of the imperial US government.

Whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are heroes. They have sacrificed their freedoms so everyone knows the facts. For this they deserve the gratitude of every decent and civilized person on this earth. These three individuals are also political prisoners of the west.

But I have a feeling that more interesting things will come to light in the coming years about US criminal behavior as more whistleblowers will be inspired to come forward, as the US state collapses under the full weight of its hypocrisy and contradictions and economic, political, military and diplomatic failures.

This Snowden affair has left the US regime with a whole carton’s worth of eggs on their face.

The only weapons of diplomacy the US now has left in its arsenal are bribery, threats of violence and violence.

It is now going to be harder for the US to get anything from other nations because the credibility of the US, and the trust in it, has been shattered. This may force the US ruling establishment to back off, if just a bit.

Even the worst tyrant is not invincible.