05-07-2013, 05:50 AM
Indeed! Pilger calls it what it is...fascism....if the 'friendly/cryptic' variety [see book by Gross entitled 'Friendly Fascism' to understand how Amerika has fooled so many as to what the system really is!]
And had Snowden been on board, it would still have been illegal for the US to pressure anyone to 'mess' with the plane! It was the official plane of the President of sovereign nation and would by international law have had diplomatic privileges - the entire craft, in effect, a diplomatic pouch. Not that international law has ever made the USA even hesitate from doing things illegal and immoral. Empire is Empire!
And had Snowden been on board, it would still have been illegal for the US to pressure anyone to 'mess' with the plane! It was the official plane of the President of sovereign nation and would by international law have had diplomatic privileges - the entire craft, in effect, a diplomatic pouch. Not that international law has ever made the USA even hesitate from doing things illegal and immoral. Empire is Empire!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass