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In America, Truth is offensive......PCR - Peter Lemkin - 01-04-2013
Truth Is Offensive
By Paul Craig Roberts
3/31/2013 at 22:14:08
In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive.
I am offensive. Michael Hudson is offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive. Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive. Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger is offensive. Noam Chomsky is offensive. Harvey Silverglate is offensive. Naomi Wolf is offensive. Stephen Lendman is offensive. David Ray Griffin is offensive. Ellen Brown is offensive.
Fortunately, many others are offensive. But how long before being offensive becomes being "an enemy of the state"?
Throughout history truth tellers have suffered and court historians have prospered. It is the same today. Gerald Celente illustrates this brilliantly in the next issue of the Trends Journal.
Over the past 35 years I have learned this lesson as a columnist. If you tell readers what is really going on, they want to know why you can't be positive. Why are you telling us that there are bad happenings that can't be remedied? Don't you know that God gave Americans the power to fix all wrongs? What are you? Some kind of idiot, an anti-American, a pinko-liberal-commie? If you hate America so much, why don't you move to Cuba, Iran or China (or to wherever the current bogyman is located)?
The ancient Greeks understood this well. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the prophetess who no one believed despite her 100 percent record of being right. Telling the truth to Americans or to Europeans is just as expensive as telling the truth to the Greeks in ancient mythology.
In America and everywhere in the Western world or the entire world, telling the truth is unpopular. Indeed, in the USA telling the truth has been criminalized. Look for example at Bradley Manning, held for two years in prison without bail and without a trial in violation of the US Constitution, tortured for one year of his illegal confinement in violation of US and international law, and now put on trial by corrupt prosecutors for aiding "enemies of the US" by revealing the truth, as required of him by the US military code. US soldiers are required to report war crimes. When Bradley Manning's superiors showed themselves to be indifferent to war crimes, Manning reported the crimes via WikiLeaks. What else does a soldier with a sense of duty and a moral conscience do when the chain of command is corrupt?
Julian Assange is another example. WikiLeaks has taken up the reporting function that the Western media has abandoned. Remember, the New York Times did publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which undermined the lies Washington had told both to the public and to Congress to justify the costly Vietnam War. But today no newspaper or TV channel any longer accepts the responsibility to truthfully inform the public. Julian Assange stepped into the vacuum and was immediately demonized, not merely by Washington but also by left-wing and right-wing media, including Internet. It was a combination of jealousy, ignorance, and doing Washington's bidding.
Without WikiLeaks and Assange, the world would know essentially nothing. Spin from Washington, the presstitute media, and the puppet state medias would prevail. So the word went out to destroy Julian Assange.
It is amazing how many people and Internet sites obeyed Washington's command. Assange has been so demonized that even though he has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, the British government, obeying its Washington master, refuses to allow him safe passage out of the London Ecuador Embassy. Is Assange destined to live out his life inside the Ecuador Embassy in London?
Will Assange be a replay of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty who on November 4, 1956, sought asylum in the US embassy in Budapest as Soviet tanks poured into Hungary to put down the anti-communist revolution? Cardinal Mindszenty lived for 15 years in the US embassy. Today it is "freedom and democracy" amerika that is copying Soviet practices during the cold war.
In contrast with "freedom and democracy" US and UK, the "authoritarian," "communist," "oppressive" Chinese government when confronted with Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's defection to the US embassy in Beijing, let him go.
It is an upside-down world when America and the British refuse to obey international law, but the Chinese communists uphold international law.
Insouciant americans are undisturbed that alleged terrorists are tortured, held indefinitely in prison without due process, and executed on the whim of some executive branch official without due process of law.
Most americans go along with unaccountable murder, torture, and detention without evidence, which proclaims their gullibility to the entire world. There has never in history been a population as unaware as americans. The world is amazed that an insouciant people became, if only for a short time, a superpower.
The world needs intelligence and leadership in order to avoid catastrophe, but america can provide neither intelligence nor leadership. America is a lost land where nuclear weapons are in the hands of those who are concerned only with their own power. Washington is the enemy of the entire world and encompasses the largest concentration of evil on the planet.
Where is the good to rise up against the evil?
In America, Truth is offensive......PCR - David Guyatt - 02-04-2013
"The pressitute media"... :lol::pointlaugh:
Love it.
In America, Truth is offensive......PCR - Phil Dragoo - 03-04-2013
Peter
There is much in this passionate argument of Paul Craig Roberts before his final descent in hysteria--
(Indeed, he cites an American exceptionalism which in calmer moments would eschew.)
The stilletto of truth is the Janus of demonization of the target and the goading of the herd of shrieking fairies and carping harpies
(looking fabulous in their government-issue dog collars)
Bradley Manning and Julian Assange had their counterparts in Lee Harvey Oswald and "David Koresh"--
Author Roberts asks, "How long before offensive becomes Enemy of the State?"
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Oh we've been here and now watched over by ARGUS drones on behalf of the NSA's SkyNet serving sponsors beyond petty concerns of "America"
Some discipline will make for Roberts a better spear; his inclusion of Chomsky in a cloak of truthtelling offensiveness ignores the latter's lie of JFK vis-a-vis Vietnam
And it didn't start thirty-five years ago
Push back to fifty, then consider Maddow and Matthews--and Chomsky--of the left yet serving the Masters of War
The CIA now arming MB to contend with Putin's proxies in Blair-Orwell's quadrilateral
while Big Brother and the Eleanor Channel drop in on Burma in an homage to Luciano-Lansky-Trafficante Do Road to Havana
The regime which stonewalls its arming of narcogangsters and Lansdale's Foreign Legions imprisons its exposers
Who killed the Kennedys and are their marionettes not still rictus-grinning at state functions, Paul Craig Roberts?
Is there anything more offensive than that?