{"id":46808,"date":"2013-08-20T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=46808"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:17:14","slug":"police-state-tries-to-intimidate-greenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/08\/police-state-tries-to-intimidate-greenwald.html","title":{"rendered":"Police State Tries to Intimidate Greenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Fails<\/a>.\u00a0 It was the Brits acting as lackeys, but have no doubt this is orchestrated by the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n

Note well how \u201cterrorism\u201d was used as the transparently phony excuse for this act of intimidation.<\/p>\n

This is obviously a rather profound escalation of their attacks on the news-gathering process and journalism. It\u2019s bad enough to prosecute and imprison sources. It\u2019s worse still to imprison journalists who report the truth. But to start detaining the family members and loved ones of journalists is simply despotic. Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they felt threatened by. But the UK puppets and their owners in the US national security state obviously are unconstrained by even those minimal scruples.<\/p>\n

If the UK and US governments believe that tactics like this are going to deter or intimidate us in any way from continuing to report aggressively on what these documents reveal, they are beyond deluded. If anything, it will have only the opposite effect: to embolden us even further. Beyond that, every time the US and UK governments show their true character to the world \u2013 when they prevent the Bolivian President\u2019s plane from flying safely home, when they threaten journalists with prosecution, when they engage in behavior like what they did today \u2013 all they do is helpfully underscore why it\u2019s so dangerous to allow them to exercise vast, unchecked spying power in the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We still retain the freedom to resist this.<\/p>\n

Or we can go on being suckers.<\/p>\n

Naturally the common people don\u2019t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. \u2013 Hermann Goering<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fails.\u00a0 It was the Brits acting as lackeys, but have no doubt this is orchestrated by the Obama Administration. Note well how \u201cterrorism\u201d was used as the transparently phony excuse for this act of intimidation. This is obviously a rather profound escalation of their attacks on the news-gathering process and journalism. It\u2019s bad enough to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-46808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-growing-police-state"],"yoast_head":"\nPolice State Tries to Intimidate Greenwald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fails.\u00a0 It was the Brits acting as lackeys, but have no doubt this is orchestrated by the Obama Administration. 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