Among the worst effects of transforming the federal government to a nationwide security state has been the stultification or warping of the consciences of the American people. With unwavering allegiance to the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, all too many Americans have actually compromised their sense of right and incorrect at the altar of “national security,” the two-word term that has actually ended up being the most crucial term in the political lexicon of the American people.
The best example of this phenomenon is the CIA’s power of assassination. The majority of Americans have actually concerned passively accept this power, with nary a believed as to the victims versus whom it is performed and under what scenarios it is performed.
Consider recent discoveries that the CIA was planning to assassinate Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, for disclosing dark-side tricks of the US deep state to the world.
That’s why United States authorities have pursued him with a vengeance– not since he lied about the Pentagon’s and the CIA’s dark-side activities but rather because he revealed the reality about them.
That’s why they were looking for to murder him– to silence him, to penalize him, and to send a message to other prospective disclosers of dark-side tricks of the nationwide security facility.
However anybody with a conscience that is operating would easily see that assassinating Assange would be simply plain murder. And at the danger of belaboring the apparent, the murder of an innocent individual is just plain evil.
Yet the reaction to all this from the mainstream press has actually been one large cumulative yawn. No big offer. It’s just another state-sponsored assassination intended to protect “nationwide security.” If US national security state authorities have chosen that Assange needs to be taken out, then that’s simply the way it is. That’s why we have a CIA, after all. We have to defer to its judgment, even if it means compromising our consciences at the same time. After all, that’s its task– to safeguard “national security.”
By the method, there is essentially no doubt that if they could get away with assassinating Edward Snowden for disclosing the fact about NSA dark-side activity, they would murder him too. The possible reason they haven’t assassinated Snowden is due to the fact that they haven’t found out a way to get the assassins out of Russia.
When the federal government was converted to a nationwide security state after World War II, the American individuals made an implicit deal with the devil. The deal empowered the national security establishment to participate in dark-side activity, consisting of assassination. But another part of the deal was that authorities would keep their dark-side activity trick from the American people so that people would not have to deal with their consciences over a governmental entity that was assassinating individuals.
Assange’s and Snowden’s great “criminal activity” was in violating that pact. By bringing dark-side activity to the attention of the American people, they risked that individuals’s consciences may begin running.
Up until now, there appears to be no risk of that taking place. Think about, for instance, the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. That was just plain murder. Iran and the United States are not at war with each other. Sure, we are informed that Iran is a “competing,” an “opponent,” an “opponent,” or an “enemy,” but does that ethically entitle United States officials to murder Iranian officials? It does not, just as it does not entitle Iranian officials to murder United States authorities.
Once again, however, the response among the traditional press to the assassination of Soleimani was one terrific, big cumulative yawn. Revealingly, there was also no ethical outrage revealed among church ministers throughout America. If the Pentagon and the CIA deemed it needed to assassinate Soleimani, that’s all we need to understand.
To get America back on the ideal track, what we require is a moral awakening, one that entails the operation of conscience. If that day were to come, there is no doubt that the American individuals would cast the CIA into the dustbin of history, where all evil firms belong.