| by Paul Craig Roberts
( December 5, 2012, Washington
DC, Sri Lanka Guardian) Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and
citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up
the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United
States. Every member of the government
and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the
government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology–to
defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
Today the emphasis needs to be on
the Constitution’s domestic enemies in “our own” government. America’s foreign
enemies are miniscule. But the domestic
enemies are legion. America’s enemies consist, with whistleblower exceptions,
of the entire US government, both executive branch, legislative branch (with
possibly a dozen exceptions), and judicial branch (with few exceptions).
The three branches of our
government have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax,
“the war on terror.” Even if the US were
overrun with terrorists, how could they harm us more than our government has
harmed us by destroying the US Constitution?
If you don’t believe that the US
Constitution has been destroyed by Republicans and Democrats alike, read my
book coauthored with Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, and
the five articles whose URLs are provided below.
Bradley Manning, a member of the
US military, complied with his oath of office, with the US Military Code, with
the Nuremberg standards set by the US government, with the strictures expressed
by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the George W, Bush
administration, and with his own conscience. Manning, allegedly (we will never
know), released to WikiLeaks the video of the US military murdering two
journalists and a dozen innocent people
walking down a street. http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_shows_murder_of_journalists_and_iraqi_civilians_20100405/
After the murder of these people
by the US military playing video games with live people, a father with two
young children stopped his van to help the survivors crawling in the street.
The US military, due to either blood-lust, incompetence, or total evil, killed
the father and sent high caliber bullets into the bodies of the two small
children.
The murderers then blame the
father for bringing children into the combat zone created by the incompetence
or evil of the US troops, who obviously get their jollies from murdering
people. TV cameras are claimed to be weapons and justifications for murdering
15 people.
Subsequently, a few people, whom
the video shows to be unarmed, walk into a building.
The US troops claim the unarmed
people have weapons and RPGs and send three hellfire missiles into the
building. The US troops then report that
all the “targets” are dead.
Any real patriotic American who
saw this video would be compelled to release it. If Manning released it to Wikeleaks, then
Manning is the most morally responsible American alive. What has Manning’s
moral conscience cost him?
It has cost Manning 900 days held
incommunicado illegally by the US government. President John F. Kennedy’s
presidency lasted 1,000 days. Manning was held and tortured for almost the
entire length of Camelot.
And the US government has got
away with it.
Americans don’t care. It is not
them. They are too stupid to understand that once law is gone, they can be
next.
In their desire to punish
Manning, US military and civilian authorities failed to realize that the lesson
for soldiers is that crimes against humanity will not be punished, but those
who reveal the crimes will be punished.
On November 29 Bradley Manning
testified in federal court about his illegal confinement and torture by the US
government. Manning’s testimony was not covered by the US media. The New York
Times, in Chris Floyd’s words, “contented itself with a brief bit of wire copy
from AP, tucked away on page 3.”
In contrast, the British Guardian
covered Manning’s testimony in detail in two stories 68 paragraphs long. The
British people are informed of the US government’s crimes against humanity in
violation of international law and US law, but not the American people.
A formal United Nations
investigations into the illegal, brutal and inhuman treatment of Bradley
Manning denounced his treatment as “cruel and inhuman.” The US State Department
spokesman, Col. P.J. Crowley, resigned after publicly protesting Manning’s
illegal and inhuman treatment by the US government.
The presstitute media was silent.
Glenn Greenwald, the
constitutional attorney, concludes that “the US establishment journalists have
enabled the government every step of the way.” The presstitutes hold
“themselves out as adversarial watchdogs, but nothing provokes their animosity
more than someone who effectively challenges government actions.”
Greenwald praises Bradley Manning
who “has bestowed the world with multiple vital benefits. But as his court
martial finally reaches its conclusion, one likely to result in the imposition
of a long prison term, it appears his greatest gift is this window into
America’s political soul.”
The window into America’s
political soul reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen
People. Nothing else can be said for
those who rule and oppress us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33193.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33192.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33200.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33203.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/29/exclusive_julian_assange_on_wikileaks_bradley
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