Now, the whole Snowden thing could be some sort of elaborate hoax, and in any event, such a unique circumstance is fraught with unexpected consequences.
Country after country is declining to help Snowden. This is curious. That initially country after country thumbed their noses at USA, but now take a more reserved approach means there was some intervention. We know Joe Biden was working the phones on this, after Sec State Kerry flubbed it up. Whatever happened, carrot or stick, things changed. What is likely not being considered is whatever treatment USA offered in desperation of worldwide disrespect for the USA, carrot or stick, China and Russia are making friends with those USA "treated." Whatever is going on, it is likely going to backfire for USA.
One thing we do see clearly is the people on top live in fear of mid-level operatives who have both information and the means to murder. Fast and Furious, the Boston bombings, the OKC murders, so many obvious rogue events in which adult supervision is lacking, but the supervisors are compromised.
This is nothing new, in Seattle in the 1970s the City Council outlawed the Police from keeping files on politicians. The police did it anyway. They also commonly broke federal laws on wiretapping. And how do they get away with it? They keep files on each other. If any one cop goes down, he'll take several others with him. So they were and are free to keep files in violation of the law. And illegal wiretapping is nothing new. Judges are not about to curb law enforcement crime when law enforcement has the goods on the judges.
There is no way out in our system, so we need a new one. Truth commissions will work. But also, Japan was oppressed by such mid-level rogues during the samurai shogunates. Then came the Meiji restoration. One day samurai had "cut and walk" rights, the next day samurai were harvesting rice in order to eat. USA could do the same. Restore order in USA, where we now have chaos at all levels.
Maybe in a hundred years some Bollywood movie would romanticize USA under the thugocracy with a movie called "The Last Motorcycle Cop" or the "Last DEA Agent."
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Country after country is declining to help Snowden. This is curious. That initially country after country thumbed their noses at USA, but now take a more reserved approach means there was some intervention. We know Joe Biden was working the phones on this, after Sec State Kerry flubbed it up. Whatever happened, carrot or stick, things changed. What is likely not being considered is whatever treatment USA offered in desperation of worldwide disrespect for the USA, carrot or stick, China and Russia are making friends with those USA "treated." Whatever is going on, it is likely going to backfire for USA.
One thing we do see clearly is the people on top live in fear of mid-level operatives who have both information and the means to murder. Fast and Furious, the Boston bombings, the OKC murders, so many obvious rogue events in which adult supervision is lacking, but the supervisors are compromised.
This is nothing new, in Seattle in the 1970s the City Council outlawed the Police from keeping files on politicians. The police did it anyway. They also commonly broke federal laws on wiretapping. And how do they get away with it? They keep files on each other. If any one cop goes down, he'll take several others with him. So they were and are free to keep files in violation of the law. And illegal wiretapping is nothing new. Judges are not about to curb law enforcement crime when law enforcement has the goods on the judges.
There is no way out in our system, so we need a new one. Truth commissions will work. But also, Japan was oppressed by such mid-level rogues during the samurai shogunates. Then came the Meiji restoration. One day samurai had "cut and walk" rights, the next day samurai were harvesting rice in order to eat. USA could do the same. Restore order in USA, where we now have chaos at all levels.
Maybe in a hundred years some Bollywood movie would romanticize USA under the thugocracy with a movie called "The Last Motorcycle Cop" or the "Last DEA Agent."
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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