Tyranny 101: US Federal Gov’t ‘Waging War’ on Whistleblowers

April 13th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

RT
April 12, 2012

The American government “is using its power to intimidate, prosecute and prevent government employees from sharing information about state officials’ misconduct”, insists Stephen Kohn, attorney and author of The Whistleblower’s Handbook.

This attack on whistleblowers in America is an attack on fundamental freedom of speech, “preventing the American people from learning about the abuses of their government,” warned the attorney.

“The doctrine of the state secret privilege in the US puts a censorship veil over everything you want to blow a whistle on.”

Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou, who was the first official to confirm the waterboarding of terrorist suspects, has been indicted for repeatedly disclosing sensitive information to journalists.

The same law was also used against whistleblower Bradley Manning, the army private who handed secret documents to Wikileaks.

Both cases go against the very basics of the US constitution, says Stephen Kohn.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

“The First Amendment was enacted to prevent precisely what we’re seen unfolding today. People in the government witness abuses and they have a right to blow the whistle on them,” Kohn points out. “We are challenging the legal predicates that they have used to prosecute and suppress throughout this country. We are challenging them because they are illegal and unconstitutional,” he said.

“It is government misconduct that the government wants to suppress the public ever learning about. It is the heart of the First Amendment,” Kohn continued, explaining that “the core of the First Amendment is the protection of the people who want to expose the misconduct of government.”

In 2008, when campaigning for president, Barack Obama told voters in Fairfax, Virginia, that he is preparing a federal law to protect those who disclose suspect practice.

“I wrote a brief for a federal whistleblowers law, to make sure that it applied in more situations all the way to the Supreme Court… making sure that those whistleblowers get protection,” Obama said.

But under the Obama administration, whistleblowers have received treatment much more harsh than in the times of George W. Bush.

Stephen Kohn says it’s vital to be more aggressive with those in government who intend to gag dissenters.

“We need an adult in the room. We need someone to stand up and say, ethics in government is important. Those in the government who want to suppress dissent have to be either pushed back, or they have to be fired,” argued Kohn, noting that Obama appears to have ditched his concern for whistleblowers.

“We have to demand that our constitutional rights are protected, we have to take those claims to court, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, and we have to go to the Congress for the American people to fight for their rights,” the attorney called on Americans.

“These rights are not passive. If you wait for someone to give them to you – they will retaliate and you will be waiting a long time,” Kohn warned.

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9 Responses to “Tyranny 101: US Federal Gov’t ‘Waging War’ on Whistleblowers”

This is how this type of bullshit ends up looking like :

During Stalin’s reign , they had an alarm bell at the Douma , to signal to everybody when
they may stop clappin’ , because everybody was scared shitless to be one of those to
stop clapping first …

Or North Korea , where you better cry like a ninny , when your ” Beloved leader ”
croacks , if you don’t want to end up in some obscure labor camp …
The mind control exercised over the people have most believing that secrecy is necessary
when; in fact, it is their greatest enemy.

I leave here below words once spoken and so desparately needing to be echoed to the people once again . . .

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know. – John F. Kennedy
IMPEACH HIM
The ONLY LEGAL GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IS/ARE THE PEOPLE, “We the People …”, this IS the government of the Constitution.

So, citizens working, as public servants, for the government of We the People not only have the right to disclose information on wrong doing and crimes of public servants working for We the People, they have an obligation … it is only if they fail to disclose a crime that they should be guilty of a crime and punished.

Whistle blowers are simply fulfilling their obligations to the Constitutions, and We the People — only criminals would move to stop/arrest/harasses law abiding citizens fulfilling their duties …

This is BAD. The criminals misrepresenting themselves as public servants do not even finish with the commission of their last crime, before they embark upon yet another crime against We the People …

We simply need these criminals in prisons … our continued suffering is because we are allowing these criminals to carry on their criminal activities.
- well said
- Cry tyranny all you want to the man without ears. He has eyes, so make him see what you are about.
- “The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting “intelligence” justifying those activities. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.” — Ralph McGehee, former Career Intelligence Medal recipient officer of the CIA (1952 to 1977) and critic of the agency.
  
  The CIA, like Nasa and the nuclear bomb, were inventions of German Nazis, who were given a free-pass from the Nuremburg trials for selling out their state secrets and utilize the technologies for Germany’s enemies.
- That’s bullshit …
  
  A ” People ” can’t govern itself …
  
  Especially when most of them can’t even wash their ass !!!
  
  If you don’t got a good vedic king , you’re in deep shit …
  
  Kinda where we are now …
Truth does not fear investigation and only the wicked flee when no one is pursuing