Security Thugs

In an article on fff.org, it says in part:

There have been U.S. invasions of foreign countries. There have been U.S. regime-change operations against foreign regimes. There have been U.S. state-sponsored assassinations. There have been kidnappings, torture, and indefinite detention. There has been a judicially created “state secrets doctrine.” There have been all sorts of assaults on the civil liberties and privacy of the American people. All under the name of “national security.”

And then there have been the criminal indictments of people like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, and Chelsea Manning on grounds of “national security.” The allegation is that the information they divulged to the public constituted a grave threat to “national security.” Yet, the information was divulged and none of those bad things happened to the United States.

The American government is a rogue state, American exceptionalism, entitling it to break every international law with impunity. And American leaders act as though they’re above the law. Here’s hoping that God has a just punishment waiting for them, because a major part of the American public is willing accomplices.