Just About the Best Single Short Summation of Where American Electronic 'Intelligence' Has Led US!

[Peter Lemkin]

We're in a Post-Constitutional America: Our Country Is Going Sideways in Plain Sight, and Nobody's Saying Much About It


Close your eyes for a moment, think about recent events, and you could easily believe yourself in a Seinfeldian Bizarro World. Now, open them and, for a second, everything looks almost familiar... and then you notice that a dissident is fleeing a harsh and draconian power, known for its global surveillance practices, use of torture, assassination campaigns, and secret prisons, and has found a haven in a heartless world in... hmmm... Russia. That dissident, of course, is Edward Snowden, just granted a year's temporary asylum in Russia, a.k.a. the defender of human rights and freedom 2013, and so has been released from a Washington-imposed imprisonment in Moscow's international air terminal and the threat of far worse.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/...paging=off

A good wake-up call article [of which there are SO MANY these days...not surprisingly!]; but can't understand their use of the term 'going sideways'. America is sinking and taking the People with it...in fact pushing them by force to that part of the ship of state already under water. If it continues another decade [maybe less] it is TERMINAL and can not be reversed, IMO. Yet, most people aware of the problem wring their hands, worry and do nothing that will make a difference.

They point to much of the problem - an example:

OnJuly 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created thefirst whistleblowerprotectionlaw, stating "that it is the duty of all persons in the service ofthe United States to give the earliest information to Congress orother proper authority of any misconduct, frauds, or misdemeanorscommitted by any officers or persons in the service of these states."
Twohundred thirty-five years later, on July 30, 2013, Bradley Manningwas foundguilty on20 of the 22 charges for which he was prosecuted, specifically for"espionage" and for videos of waratrocities hereleased, but not for "aiding the enemy."

However, they, like most who see what is happening fail [perhaps out of fear; perhaps out of confusion] to propose a direction and methodology to fight back.

While awareness is the first step, it is not sufficient. The system, IMO, is so corrupt it can't be reformed using its own structures [voting, letters to the editors, civic groups], but it is time for strikes, work-stoppages, peaceful but massive civil demonstrations and disobedience. Will those who do be labeled as 'terrorists'...perhaps [OWS was!]...but what alternatives are there, at this late date?!

At the risk of sounding alarmist, I think we are now in a parallel place to Germany just before the Nazis consolidated their power. No Nazis this time, no dictator, but an American brand of neo-Fascism, none the less. The Germans, as a group, did little to stop it and we see what they got. At least we must try, as things are rapidly getting much worse and will continue to do so with ever increasing speed. Certainly no outside power will come and save the day.

We have met the answer, and the answer is those of us who can see the problem and sound the alarm!