Anti-War Activists 'New' Target For Illegal Search & Seizure

[Peter Lemkin]

Paul Craig Roberts writes:

Manning is cursed with a moral conscience that has been discarded by his government and his military, and Manning has been arrested for obeying the law and reporting a war crime to the American people.

US Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, of course, from Michigan, who is on the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, has called for Manning’s execution. According to US Rep. Rogers it is an act of treason to report an American war crime.

In other words, to obey the law constitutes “treason to America.”

US Rep. Rogers said that America’s wars are being undermined by “a culture of disclosure” and that this “serious and growing problem” could only be stopped by the execution of Manning.

If Rep. Rogers is representative of Michigan, then Michigan is a state that we don’t need.

The US government, a font of imperial hubris, does not believe that any act it commits, no matter how vile, can possibly be a war crime.

Roberts' critique is entirely correct.

I wonder about the nature of the epiphany that caused this onetime Reagan apparatchik to rediscover his own moral conscience.

I don't recall his being asked or answering that question...but whatever it was, it was a nearly complete conversion! If only it would happen a lot more often!!! But be thankful for the times it does. He now calls America a Nazi-like Police State. He was long a member of the Hoover Institute...I don't think they'd even let him pee in their toilet now.