What the government is really afraid of: us

Justin Raimondo, Antiwar - The most dramatic consequence of Manning’s “crime” was the release of a video that showed US pilots mowing down a Reuters journalist, his driver, and a car full of children, whilst chortling over their grisly deaths. Which “enemy” did this aid – the journalistic profession? The families of those slain Iraqis?

The revelations about US operations in Afghanistan were the most criticized: the anti-Manning/anti-WikiLeaks brigade claimed the Taliban would soon make use of this information to kill American soldiers. Yet that never happened: to date, not a single American death has been traced to the WikiLeaks revelations.

No, the real “enemy” here isn’t the Taliban, it isn’t al-Qaeda (or what’s left of it), nor is it any foreign government or entity: it’s the American people. That’s who the US government lives in deathly fear of – the fear that if only Americans knew and understood what was being done all over the world in their name, they’d put a stop to it once and for all.

Secrecy is the prerequisite for tyranny, and knowledge is the tyrant’s worst foe: that’s why whistle blowers – from Dan Ellsberg to Bradley Manning – are relentlessly pursued and prosecuted. That’s why anyone who tries to give context to their revelations – such as this web site – is attacked and spied on by the government and its shills. That’s also why the sickening smear campaign launched against both Manning and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has taken on the dual aspects of both a witch hunt and a crusade. You’ll note, too, that both Manning and Assange are being assailed as sexual perverts – that’s the peculiar style of our outraged elites, who combine their own prurient decadence with a vicious and very personal hatred for anyone who defies them....

The United States government is at war with the rest of the world – and so it’s only natural that they would charge someone who has revealed their dark shenanigans worldwide with “aiding the enemy.”....

Our politicians are still living in that past as they gad about the world proclaiming this and announcing that, drawing lines in the sands of lands they have no knowledge of and no right to rule. They haven’t woken up, as yet, to the new reality. Oh, but don’t worry – they will. And when they do, it will be too late for repentance, or a turnabout: they’ll keep doing what they’ve been doing until it kills them – and us.