And yes the video is from Democracy now. But don't let your panties crackle.
A few post down you will see we posted a vid from Fox news.
We don't much care where we get the truth about how you are being screwed as long as
we can verify it and then get it to you. George Washington abides by our tradition of
heavily linking his posts to outside resources so that by the time you get finished reading
them all, which of course nobody does because after all it's not a two minute sound byte
from a fwd, fwd, fwd, e-mail proved false by Snopes 6 years ago (but alas we never
learn and keep trying to give the truth power),you should have enough info to make an
intelligent decision on your own based on what is and not what the paid political hacks
want you to believe. First the vid.
And now for a whole bunch of interesting stuff about the video: When one of the most
respected radiologists in America – the former head of the radiology department at Yale University – attempted to blow the whistle on the fact that the FDA had approved a
medical device manufactured by General Electric because it put out massive amounts of
radiation, the FDA installed spyware to record his private emails and surfing activities
(including installing cameras to snap pictures of his screen), and then used the
information to smear him and other whistleblowers.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident, but standard operating procedure.
For example, whistleblowers are routinely fired before they can get traction …
The Pentagon recently smeared USA Today reporters for investigating illegal Pentagon propaganda.
The White House tried to smear scientists who found underwater oil plumes
caused by the BP oil spill.
to smear him, and the government is doing everything it can tosmear the sexuality
of both Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and:
As Ellsberg himself has repeatedly pointed out, this is the same sleazy strategy employed by Nixon to personally smear whistleblowers and demonize their psyches in order to discredit the substance of their disclosures and make it uncomfortable for anyone to support them. And it works.
In an effort to protect Bank of America from the threatened Wikileaks expose of
wrongdoing – the Department of Justice told Bank of America to a hire a specific
hardball-playing law firm to assemble a team to take down WikiLeaks (and see this).
The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone
else who criticized the Iraq war.
The FBI smeared top scientists who pointed out the numerous holes in its anthrax case.
The government uses agent provocateurs to discredit peaceful protesters.
Indeed, economist Murry Rothbard noted:
Anytime that a hard-nosed analysis is put forth of who our rulers are, of how their political and economic interests interlock, it is invariably denounced by Establishment liberals and conservatives (and even by many libertarians) as a “conspiracy theory of history,” “paranoid,” “economic determinist,” and even “Marxist.” These smear labels are applied across the board, even though such realistic analyses can be, and have been, made from any and all parts of the economic spectrum, from the John Birch Society to the Communist Party. The most common label is “conspiracy theorist,” almost always leveled as a hostile epithet rather than adopted by the “conspiracy theorist” himself.
And see this.
In fact, anyone who questions the government in any way can be
And government apologists are eager tolabel anyone “taking a cynical stance toward
politics, mistrusting authority, endorsing democratic practices, … and displaying an
inquisitive, imaginative outlook” as worthy of a Stalinist trip to the insane asylum.
Smear tactics are only one of the whistleblowers’ concerns.
In The fact that the government isaggressively prosecuting whistleblowers –
but refusing to prosecute the actual criminal activitywhich is destroying our country
– shows where the government’s priorities lie.
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