ASSANGE: The US Gov't is Taking on a Generation & Can Only Lose

"Today we have seen a range of extreme, bellicose statements from the US administration, attempting to bully Russia and other nation's from facilitating Mr. Snowden's asylum. Every person has the right to seek and receive political asylum. Those rights are enshrined in the United Nations agreement - of which the United States is a party.

"It is counterproductive and unacceptable for the Obama administration to try and interfere with those rights. It reflects poorly on the US administration and no self-respecting country would submit to such interference, or such bullying by the US."

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"This morning the US Secretary of State called Edward Snowden a "traitor". Edward Snowden is not a traitor. He is not a spy. He is a whistleblower who has told the public and important truth. The US Secretary of State is wrong in law. In US law a 'traitor' must adhere to US enemies and there is also a requirement that the conduct is in congressionally approved war time. Neither of these, feature here.

"The Obama administration was not given a mandate by the people of the United States to attack and spy upon the entire world, to breach the US Constitution, and the laws of other nations in the manner that it has. To now attempt to violate international asylum law by calling for the rendition of Edward Snowden further demonstrates the break down of the rule of law, by the Obama administration ... 

•  STOP SPYING ON THE WORLD 
•  ERADICATE 'SECRET-LAW' 
•  CEASE INDEFINATE DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL
•  STOP THE OBAMA ADMINSTRATION'S ASSASINATION PROGRAM 
•  STOP INVADING OTHER COUNTRIES & STOP SENDING YOUNG AMERICANS OFF TO KILL & BE KILLED 

"It is these problems which are stimulating national security whistleblowers to come forward. If the Obama administration doesn't want government sources to speak to the press, it should stop engaging in conduct which is so outrageous to cause  them to come forward. The charging of Edward Snowden is not a matter of justice. It is an attempt to intimidate any country that might be considering standing up for his right - to tell us all the truth. Such behavior must not be tolerated and will not be tolerated by any self-respecting nation, or by the press at large. Everyone should tell their governments to step forward and to assist Mr. Snowden in his asylum, and the press also has an obligation to do so."

WHISTLE-BLOWER SACRIFICES SELF FOR HIS COUNTRY: U.S. Media Assists Gov't Witch Hunt & Distortions - Per Usual [video]

A young man with the world in his hand, gives it all up for the pursuit of Truth & Justice. One brave whistle-blower at the highest levels of secret-government domestic spying programs, stands tall and looks directly into the eyes of the 'super power' of the United States to say, enough is enough; Liberty or death.

While the corporate-state media carries the water - yet again - for a White House who would really like to reframe the topic of authoritarian domestic spying programs, former CIA and NSA contract employee risks his life to take a stand against extraordinary U.S. government fascism. For those unfamiliar with the story, Edward Snowden took extraordinary steps this past week to expose enormous government abuse of power. Particulary, that the United States government's intelligence agencies are spying on every single American. Can this really be so surprising to a people who have just recently found out that, this same government also falsely claims the authority to assassinate citizens at will - without due process, without even providing evidence of the government's claims against said murdered parties?

 SECRET COURTS = OXYMORON 

U.S. corporate-state media helps the White House sell false stories of legitimacy by airing the obviously bias opinions (dressed up as 'legal analysis') of the very government officials who got caught holding the indiscriminate, immoral, and in no way ethical dragnet of intelligence operations aimed at the entire public at large. That the president's friends and other government officials, themselves implicated in this tragic dishonor to the rule of law and the basic Human Right to SOME level of privacy, are filling the airwaves with assertions of their own interpretation of how legitimate their own actions have been - should be an obvious pulling back of the curtain, exposing further the corporate-police-state. Every time these criminals in government get caught, their corporate partners help them sell their stories. Just as every time corporate criminals are caught, their government partners let them off with a slap on the wrist. 

 'The SECRET courts which WE created to justify our enormous police-state 

 domestic spying programs told us we could do it.' - U.S. Government 

 Well, what are the odds of that?! You mean to tell us that your own 

 private courts, which you created and employ, told you it's 'legal' 
 to do whatever you want? Go on... 

The indignant government officials who brazenly defend such an obviously reprehensible secret-police program in the U.S. (the kind that would have impressed Nazi-Germany in the 1940's)  predictably behave with the same old cowardice of shooting the messenger to distract from the message. They expect you to believe that having their secret spy programs against you being exposed, means 'national security' is threatened. Not that national security is threatened by authoritarian regimes who spy on their own people - but that the people KNOWING ABOUT IT has somehow endangered us as a nation. 

They are desperately clinging to any angle that can keep their recently revealed EXTREME ABUSES OF POWER from being seen for what they are. Edward Snowden is not a 'threat' to the United States. He is a threat only to those who have worked very hard - in dark corners - to corrupt the United States and to destroy any semblance of liberty left in this once great nation. Edward Snowden is a hero of the people. Don't let the bastards who got caught - being bastards - tell you otherwise. 

 When GOVERNMENTS collude with CORPORATIONS to SPY on and 'police' the people, the result is an authoritarian type of government known definitively as "fascism". 

Knowing that he gave his life for his country, whistle-blower Snowden said, "You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk, because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you - they'll get you in time." Unlike Bradley Manning who is still facing the wrath of the U.S. government (currently in military trial - after extended periods of isolation) for exposing U.S. war-crimes which every sentient being has a right to know about - Snowden took the opportunity to go public and explain his moral-compass. In the video interview with Glenn Greenwald (above), he tells more about the NSA abuses than the initial story told. He also disassembles the predictable hit-piece propaganda which has been coming out of the White House and their media lackeys. He shows that he is NOT in any way an enemy of the United States, but rather, that he took these actions because he is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good of the American people.

Obama's Drone & Torture Obfuscations Shouted Down LIVE [VIDEO]

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink's Founder known for breaking through political wordplay and exposing corruption face-to-face with plain English, attended Obama's speech yesterday; part of a PR-campaign to attempt regaining some public trust. She did not allow his obfuscation of reality to go unnoticed.  

       While speaking as though a platform of remote-control-murder of untried SUSPECTS (including Americans) is somehow a legal or legitimate framework, Barrack Obama was interrupted with a direct confrontation from Benjamin, who reminded him that bombing 16 year old American non-combatants is never legal. For those unfamiliar with the story, American Imam (with dual citizenship in Yemen) Anwar Al-Awlaki was murdered by drone strike in late 2011 - without charges, without trial. At the time, his American son, Abdulrhaman Al-Awlaki was just 15 years old. The Obama administration waited 2 weeks for the Denver born boy to turn 16 before remotely murdering him as well. These Americans were murdered without due process, by drone-strike, at the order of the Dictatorial President of the United States. 

       Benjamin called out Obama's obvious hypocrisies in a speech where he, on the one hand claimed no executive power to close Gitmo - though he signed the Executive Order to do so in 2009 and simply never saw it through - and on the other hand claims the personal authority to murder Americans and others without official charge or trial.

       When being told the truth, Americans repudiate such governmental disdain for law, ethics, honesty, and morality. Instead however, the corporate-state-media continually frames the topic as though it is a 'debate' and as though it's just 'terrorists' who are being killed. Some of those targets may be terrorists. Without trials, we'll never know, but the majority of those being killed around the world by U.S. drone-strikes are innocent civilians. Most Americans have also been largely deceived about the fact that even our own citizens are being targeted and killed without charge or trial.

       The corporate-state U.S. media purposely confuses the public by deceptive framing of language. Polls which ask if Americans support "drone-strikes against terrorists abroad" are deceptive in their nature. This framing leads the respondent to the assumption that it's "terrorists" that are being killed around the world by U.S. weaponry. Terrorists are the significant MINORITY (about 2%) of those being killed by U.S. robot wars. Remote-control-murder is more cowardly than suicide bombings; There is simply no honor in dropping bombs from robots while sitting in an air-conditioned operation center nowhere near a battlefield. Especially when the majority of deaths caused by these real-life video games (or real death may be a more appropriate term) are innocent civilians - men, women, and children. Our actions as a nation, define our Way of Life. Is this a Way of Life worth fighting for? Terrorizing the innocent people of nations which have posed no threat to us; Is this kind of cowardly remote-control-murder of innocents worth defending? If we were legitimately fighting terrorism, how does being terrorists help such a supposed purpose? 

       Bravery is going to a country regularly ravaged by these terroristic robot attacks, in solidarity with a people who never know when the next U.S. bomb is going to kill them, their neighbors, their loved ones - all within nations that are clearly not at war with the United States. Occupy Ithaca's own James Ricks joined other Ithacan's and Americans in a convey led by Medea Benjamin and Code Pink this past October, to show support for Pakistani sovereignty - and to bring greater attention to the illegal drone-wars being waged by a U.S. government out of control. Claiming that a U.S. president - or government - is above national or international law is simply historically, grossly inaccurate at best. 'Malevolently deceptive' may be a better term, considering the long list of Constitutional & International Law violations that regularly end in the bloodshed of innocents by this, and the previous U.S. administration.

       "I love my country. I love the rule of Law... Abide by the rule of law - You're a Constitutional lawyer!" was about the last statement heard by Medea Benjamin as she was removed from the auditorium. Having thoroughly forced the light of truth into the face of a U.S. president whose "kill list" includes American citizens and whose signing pen regularly acts against all rule of law and basic Human Rights - at home and abroad - we salute you, Medea Benjamin! Keep fighting the good fight. Keep holding lying, cheating, murderous bastards up to the light. Keep exposing those who claim violent and invasive authority which is clearly, well outside of the law. 

       We'd like to remind the reader that no law may violate the Human Rights protections of the U.S. Constitution - regardless of which corporate-party's figurehead likes to think they are above it. The Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. Politicians can write, vote on, and sign any silly thing they like. It is simply not legal if it violates the Constitution. Claiming the authority to overrule our basic right to be confronted by an accusing party in a court of law, that we may be officially charged with a crime and that the State be forced to prove their claims - rather than being assassinated or indefinitely imprisoned by the stroke of a president's pen - is overtly dictatorial. Don't let their consolidated corporate-media make you believe otherwise. Crimes committed by government officials are crimes. Your basic Human Rights are intact and protected by the U.S. Constitution. Don't let them confuse you or buy your compliance with their fear-mongering. National Security only exists when the rights of the people are protected! Never surrender them.

       Never forget too, that these current politicians - most all of them - have already agreed to allow for assassinations of American citizens - without charge, without trial, without concern for the actual rule of law, but with a total disregard for Human Rights. The corporations that bankroll their campaigns, own the media. Remember that the next time you're illogically removing your flip-flops at the airport, or the next time a high-school graduate in a blue shirt views your loved ones naked before allowing them to visit grandma. Fear is a strange motivator. All of these 'Way of Life' factors mentioned, have been accepted by a public scared to death by a corporate-state-media, meanwhile with or without these intrusions into our lives - so-called 'security measures' which have effectively destroyed our formerly free society - we are significantly more likely to be struck by lightening or drown in a puddle than to die of anything related to terrorism. This is as true today as it was before 2001. The only real statistical change is the amount of U.S. government intrusion into foreign lands and into private lives and property here at home.
The facts don't lie. Politicians do.