How ironic that the heroes of today are very young men instead of the wise older Elders?  Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden, young men in their 20’s, have put their lives, honor, and fortunes on the line to inform & alert the American citizens and those across the world of the evil activities of the world’s largest super power, the USA.

Witness the vitriolic attacks on these young men, even in the face of the evidence produced largely because of their actions, that the U.S. government is engaged in any number of unconstitutional, ill-conceived, wicked, intrusive, tyrannical activities, e.g. spying on the masses of individuals who make up the population of this country and this world for the purposes of punishment & control, clearly unconstitutional which is why they trash it at every opportunity.

Even though their whistleblowing revelations have not been known to harm anyone physically, they have exposed the rotten underbelly of a bloated, festering mechanism which wields the power of life or death over billions of individuals. For that, they must be severely punished we are told.  The War Machine is furious, as is the Surveillance Machine for example…they do NOT want the truth about their intentions and actions to be known, especially by the taxpaying slaves who subsidize them and even duped into dying for them in their unlawful attacks on foreign countries who have done us no harm. After all, who are WE THE PEOPLE to be aware of & to judge Elite Officials’ actions?

 â€œTerrorists” have taken the place of the constant threat of the return of fearsome Farmer Jones in Animal Farm, or the perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia, & Eastasia of “1984”.  These continual propagandist inventions designed to incite fear, trembling & reliance on the “leaders” enabled them to control the compliant masses and give them the patriotic thrill of trampling on helpless victims (sound familiar? It should). The people are taught to accept their lot in life of low standards of living compared to the elites in order to make possible the glorious victories. The people know they are expected to make “sacrifices” for noble causes….they always have been since the beginning of time.

Not even the best of the Science Fiction writers could foresee the terrible consequences of such technology as we have today in the hands of the incompetent and/or the purposeful pathological destroyers. 

The Cultural Marxist “March through the Institutions” laid the Collectivist groundwork and sophisticated high technology delivered the means to rule, steal, cheat, torture, maim and murder in unimaginable numbers.  Any competent dictator knows the value of Censorship, i.e. the rewriting of history to fit the agenda and surveillance as a prime means of controlling the masses.

Will American citizens and others across the globe fall for the propaganda being spewed by nearly every source or will they have the courage to face the truth, to look tyranny in its ugly face and refuse to go along to get along?

Manning & Snowden provided the world with knowledge, are they to be imprisoned & tortured as Galileo was?  We all know the answer to that question.  The new Dark Ages are upon us and Might is Right and Attila the Hun are making a speedy come-back while the once beneficiaries of liberty silently stand by, terrified of the dreaded smear of a word—RACISM! Oh yes, throw in the word ANTI-SEMITE as well.

Whatever happened to the old adage of “Sticks & Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me”?  Those nursery rhyme words came from an 1862 edition of a publication put out by the African Methodist Episcopal Church teaching that name calling does not merit physical retaliation, i.e. in a little over 100 years the Black community, due to Political Correctness has totally reversed their insightfully true message to one of insidious, menacing intent.

From Paula Deen’s “N” word to Snowden/Manning we now find that not only are WORDS alone punishable to the extreme but exposure of government criminality calls for even execution….welcome to 1984 on steroids. We are now to believe that WORDS are worse than criminal action………….Sheer Insanity.

Pity the young.

~Barbara McCutchen
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