Ray McGovern: What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks

[G_j]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-s-Behind-the-War-on-W-by-Ray-McGovern-101213-776.html


What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks

By Ray McGovern

WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in.

How far down the U.S. has slid can be seen, ironically enough, in a recent commentary in Pravda (that's right, Russia's Pravda):

"What WikiLeaks has done is make people understand why so many Americans are politically apathetic. After all, the evils committed by those in power can be suffocating, and the sense of powerlessness that erupts can be paralyzing, especially when government evildoers almost always get away with their crimes."

"So shame on Barack Obama, Eric Holder and all those who spew platitudes about integrity, justice and accountability while allowing war criminals and torturers to walk freely upon the earth. The American people should be outraged that government has transformed a nation with a reputation for freedom, justice, tolerance and respect for human rights into a backwater that revels in its criminality, cover-ups, injustices and hypocrisies."

Odd, isn't it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.


Some bloodthirsty U.S. politicians even are calling for the murder of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange, while some in the U.S. news media favor only prosecuting him and his leakers, while insisting that "responsible" journalists should be protected.

In this view, severe punishment should be reserved for people with access to the government's dark secrets who out of conscience decide to share that information with the people, a prospect that some pundits find objectionable.


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[Poboy]

1. Ray McGovern, American hero. -nt

[malaise]

2. Absolutely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FTmuhynaw
Down memory lane - I love Ray McGovern

[G_j]

3. one of the best

a voice of sanity

[Poboy]

4. Great clip. One of many confrontations. He also stood in the ditch w/Cindy.

American hero!

[malaise]

5. Yes he did

How come men like him never receive the honors?

[Octafish]

6. Stuff you won't see on ABCNNBCBSFixedNoiseNutworks.

From the OP:

...Again, the media is the key. No one said it better than Monseñor Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who just before he was assassinated 25 years ago, warned, "The corruption of the press is part of our sad reality, and it reveals the complicity of the oligarchy."...

Thank you, G_j! K&R for Truth.

[G_j]

7. presente

long live the wisdom of Oscar Romero!

thanks Octafish!

[Octafish]

8. The Archbishop knew they were coming for him...

In the sermon just minutes before his death, Archbishop Romero reminded his congregation of the parable of the wheat.

"Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us".

"I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me."

These words appeared in a newspaper just two weeks before Archbishop Romero was shot while celebrating Holy Communion in the hospital which had been his home since his enthronement in 1977. -- Saint Peter's Church - Oscar Romero

SOURCE: http://www.silk.net/RelEd/ezineromero.htm

[G_j]

9. & damn the SOA

who were responsible for his death.