Paul Craig Roberts will be sent to the gulag for this one

AMonger

Veteran Expediter
I don't think he's ever gone this far before.

Though this formatting is still a bit funky, it should be better than pasting it from my phone.
This article starts out slow, If the Greece bailout doesn't interest you, But it picks up speed, and by the end, it is practically sid vicious, which is what android speech to text calls seditious, even after several attempts.

Every day that passes adds to the fraudulent image of what is called Western
democracy.
Consider that the entire Western world is outraged that the Greek
prime minister announced that he is going to permit the Greek
people to decide their own fate instead of having it decided for
them by a handful of banksters, politicians, and bureaucrats
living it up at taxpayer expense at "talks" in the French resort of
Cannes on the Mediterranean.
The Greek economy is facing its fourth year of decline and lacks
the revenues to service its national debt held by private European
banks. The banks don’t want to lose any money, so a handful of
power brokers reached an agreement with representatives of the
Greek government to write off some of the debt in exchange for
EU capital subsidies to be financed by inflicting severe austerity
on the Greek population. Wages, salaries, pensions and medical
care are being cut while the rate of unemployment rises to
depression levels. Government employees are laid off. Valuable
public properties are to be sold to private parties for pennies on
the dollar. In short, Greece is to be looted.
Large numbers of Greeks have been in the streets protesting the
austerity policy and have reached the point of anger of throwing
Molotov ****tails at the police. Greece is disintegrating
politically. The Greek people sense that the EU "bailout" is not
bailing out Greece. It is bailing out the French, Dutch, and
German banks at the expense of the Greek people.
The Greek prime minister, watching his party’s support and power crumble,
announced that he would let the people
decide in a referendum. After all, allegedly
that’s what democracies do. But it turns
out that "we have freedom and
democracy" is not supposed to be taken
literally. It is merely a propagandistic
slogan behind which people are ruled
through back-room deals decided by
powerful private interests.
The Greek prime minister’s
announcement that he would put the
back-room bailout deal to a referendum
shocked the EU hierarchy, Washington, and investors. Who does
this Greek guy think he is permitting the people, who bear the
cost of the deal, to have a say in it? Who let this Greek guy out of
his cage? This is not the way democracies are ruled.
The EU power brokers are outraged over the Greek prime
minister’s departure from normal procedure. But the Greek PM is
relying on the Greek people to approve the deal, and not without
reason.
The Greek people have been brainwashed for decades as to the
importance of "being part of Europe." That means being a
member of the European Union. When the Greeks realize that
voting down the bailout of the banksters means being thrown out
of the European Union, which is what they will learn between
now and the referendum, they will vote for the back room deal.
Polls already indicate this. A poll for a Greek newspaper
indicates that whereas 46% oppose the bailout, 70% favor staying
in the EU, which the Greeks see as a life or death issue.
If this poll is a reliable indicator, the Greek PM has made a
brilliant political decision. The Greek people will vote in favor of
what they have been protesting violently in the streets. As the
Greek people will do themselves in, the politicians are off the
hook. This is the bet that the Greek PM has placed.
Whatever the outcome, keep in mind that
the entire Western political and investor
world was shocked that a politician,
instead of simply imposing a back room
deal, said he would let the people decide.
Letting the people decide is a no-no in
Western democracies.
If you need more evidence of this mythical
creature called "Western democracy,"
consider that Western governments are
no longer accountable to law. Contrast,
for example, the sexual harassment
charges that are plaguing US presidential
candidate Herman Cain’s campaign with
the pass given to high government officials who clearly violated
statutory law.
What follows is not a defense of Cain. I take no position on the
charges. The real point is different. In America the only thing that
can ruin a politician is his interest in sex. A politician, for
example, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, B. Omama, cannot be
ruined by violating United States and international law or by
treating the US Constitution as a "mere scrap of paper." Bush and
Cheney can take America to wars based entirely on lies and
orchestrated deceptions. They can commit war crimes,
murdering large numbers of civilians in the cause of "the war on
terror," itself a hoax. They can violate US and international laws
against torture simply "because the president said so." They can
throw away habeas corpus, the constitutional requirement that a
person cannot be imprisoned without evidence presented to a
court. They can deny the right to an attorney. They can violate
the law and spy on Americans without obtaining warrants. They
can send due process to hell. In fact, they can do whatever they
want just like Hitler’s Gestapo and Stalin’s secret police. But if
they show undue interest in a woman or proposition a woman,
they are dead meat.
Very few commentators have said a word about this. The House
of Representatives did not impeach President Bill Clinton for his
war crimes against Serbia. They impeached him for lying about a
sexual affair with a White House intern. The US Senate, which
had too many sexual affairs of its own to defend, didn’t bother to
try to convict.
This is Amerika today. A president without
any authority whatsoever, not in law and
certainly not in the Constitution, can
assassinate US citizens based on nothing
except an assertion that they are a
"threat." No evidence is required. No
conviction. No presentation of evidence in
any court. Just a murder. That is now
permissible to the Amerikan president. But
let him try to get a woman who is not his
wife into bed, and he is a cooked goose.
In Amerika there is no such thing any
longer as torture; there is only "enhanced
interrogation." A mere word change has
eliminated the crime. So torture is permissible.
In Amerika today, or in the UK and the EU, anyone who tells the
truth is a "threat." Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who made public
information leaked to him by US government sources horrified by
the criminal actions of the United States government, is now, as a
result of Amerikan pressure on UK courts, being turned over to
Sweden, which, for favors from the "world’s only superpower,"
will turn him over to the US regardless of law to be prosecuted on
trumped-up charges.
Western "civilization" is totally corrupted by American money.
There is no integrity anywhere. For a decade Washington has
been murdering women, children, village elders, and journalists
in the name of the hoax "war on terror."
What terror does the world actually see? The world sees the
terror that Israel, protected by Washington, inflicts on the
Palestinians. The world sees the terror that the US inflicts on
Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Latin
America and now Africa, with Syria, Lebanon, and Iran waiting
in the wings. The "war on terror" is nothing but an orchestrated
invented excuse for Amerika-Israel to achieve hegemony while
enriching their armaments industries.
In Greece, at least the PM committed to giving the people a say in
their fate. In America the people have no voice whatsoever. The
sheeple are content to be protected by "security," porno-scanners,
warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, and sexual groping.
To carry on the hoax "war on terror," the US government has
elevated itself above the law.
The American effort to achieve
accountability to law, the Occupy Wall
Street (OWS) movement, if not shut down
by cold weather, ice, and snow, is likely to
be shut down by police violence. One riot
begun by provocateurs is all it takes to
transform protesters into "domestic
extremists," the number one concern of
Homeland Security. The presstitute media will make the case
against the rioters, and the sheeple will buy it.
The police have been militarized by Washington. Community
police forces no
longer represent the local public that pays their salaries. Local
police represent Washington’s war against America.
American citizens are all suspects. Anyone who goes through
airport security knows this. The only law that the US government
obeys is not even a law. It is a bureaucratic regulation that
prevents, even in dire wartime, any profiling of suspects by
ethnicity or country of origin.
Consequently, all native born, flag-
waving, American super-patriots are
suspects when they board commercial
airliners. Americans who have a life
time of security clearances are subject
to being porno-scanned or sexually
groped. Airport Security cannot tell a
"terrorist" from a CIA analyst, a Marine
general or a US Senator.
Well-connected members of the ruling
elite, such as Michael Chertoff, can
become rich from selling the porno-scanners to taxpayers in
order "to protect the public from terrorists."
The only terrorists Americans will ever experience are those
funded by their own tax dollars within their "own" government. A
people incapable of perceiving its real peril has no chance of
surviving. America might be a military superpower, but it no
longer exists as a free country with accountable government and
a rule of law.



You know the problem with corrupt and abusive cops? They give the other 5% a bad name.
 
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