Years ago when I described the George W. Bush regime as a police state, right-wing eyebrows were raised. When I described the Obama regime as an even worse police state, liberals rolled their eyes. Alas! Now I am no longer controversial. Everybody says it.<\/p>\n
According to the UK newspaper, The Guardian, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, had an angry exchange with Obama in which Merkel compared Obama\u2019s National Security Agency (NSA) with the East German Communist Stasi, which spied on everyone through networks of informers. http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/17\/merkel-compares-nsa-stasi-obama<\/a><\/p>\n Merkel grew up in Communist East Germany where she was spied upon by the Stasi, and now that she has risen to the highest political office in Europe\u2019s most powerful state, she is spied upon by \u201cfreedom and democracy\u201d America.<\/p>\n A former top NSA official, William Binney, declared that \u201cWe (the US) are now in a police state.\u201d The mass spying conducted by the Obama regime, Binney says \u201cis a totalitarian process.\u201d http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/former-top-nsa-official-now-police-state.html If only more Americans were aghast. I sometimes wonder whether Americans like being spied upon, because it makes them feel important. \u201cLook at me! I\u2019m so important that the government spends enough money to wipe out US poverty spying on me and my Facebook, et. al., friends. I bet they are spending one billion dollars just to know who I connected with today. I hope it didn\u2019t get lost in all the spam.\u201d<\/p>\n Being spied upon is the latest craze of people devoid of any future but desperate for attention.<\/p>\n Jason Ditz at the FBI spied-upon Antiwar.com says that Judge Leon\u2019s ruling is a setback for Obama, who was going to restore justice and liberty but instead created the American Stasi Spy State. Congress, of course, loves the spy state, because all the capitalist firms that make mega-millions or mega-billions from it generously finance congressional and senatorial campaigns for those who support the Stasi state.<\/p>\n The romance that libertarians and \u201cfree market economists\u201d have with capitalism, which buys compliance with its greed and cooperates with the Stasi state, is foolish.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s move on. It was only a few weeks ago that Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry were on the verge of attacking Syria on the basis of faked evidence that Syria had crossed the \u201cred line\u201d and used weapons of mass destruction against the American organized, armed, and financed \u201crebels,\u201d almost all of whom come from outside Syria.<\/p>\n Only the bought-and-paid-for-by-Washington French president made a show of believing a word or Washington\u2019s lies against the Assad government in Syria. The British Parliament, long a puppet of Washington, gave Obama the bird and voted down participating in another American war crime. That left UK prime minister, David Cameron, hanging. Where do the British get prime ministers like Cameron and Blair?<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s plan for Syria, having lost the cover of its British puppet, received a fatal blow from Russian President Putin, who arranged for Syria\u2019s chemical weapons to be delivered to foreign hands for destruction, thus putting an end to the controversy.<\/p>\n In the meantime it became apparent that the \u201cSyrian rebellion\u201d organized by Washington has been taken over by al-Qaeda, an organization allegedly responsible for 9\/11. Even Washington was able to figure out that it didn\u2019t make sense to put al-Qaeda in charge of Syria. Now the headlines are: \u201cWest tells Syria rebels: Assad must stay.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Washington\u2019s arrogance has managed to make an enemy of India. The TSA, a component of Homeland Security, subjected a female diplomat from India to multiple strip searches, cavity searches and ignored her protestations of consular immunity. http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/12\/18\/devyani-khobragade-reveals-how-she-broke-down-after-stripping-and-cavity-searches-as-row-between-u-s-and-india-deepens\/<\/a><\/p>\n There was no justification whatever for this abuse of an Indian diplomat. To indicate its displeasure, the Indian government has removed barriers that prevent truck bombs from being driven into the US embassy.<\/p>\n Washington has managed to recreate the arms race. More profits for the military\/security complex, and less security for the world. Provoked by Washington\u2019s military aggressiveness, Russia has announces a $700 billion upgrade of its nuclear ballistic missiles. China\u2019s leaders have also made it clear that China is not intimidated by Washington\u2019s intrusion into China\u2019s sphere of influence. China is developing weapon systems that make obsolete Washington\u2019s large investment in surface fleets.<\/p>\n Recently, Pat Buchanan, Mr. Conservative himself, made a case that Russia\u2019s Putin better represents traditional American values than does the President of the United States. http:\/\/www.unz.com\/pbuchanan\/is-putin-one-of-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n Buchanan has a point. It is Washington, not Moscow or Beijing, that threatens to bomb countries into the stone age, that forces down airplanes of heads of state and subjects them to searches, and that refuses to honor grants of political asylum.<\/p>\n Certainly, Washington\u2019s claim to be \u201cexceptional\u201d and \u201cindispensable\u201d and, therefore, above law and morality contrasts unfavorably with Putin\u2019s statement that \u201cwe do not infringe on anyone\u2019s interests or try to teach anyone how to live.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s arrogance has brought America disrepute. What damage will Washington next inflict on us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington Has Discredited America Paul Craig Roberts Years ago when I described the George W. Bush regime as a police state, right-wing eyebrows were raised. When I described the Obama regime as an even worse police state, liberals rolled their eyes. Alas! Now I am no longer controversial. Everybody says it. 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\nPerhaps my best vindication, after all the hate mail from \u201csuper patriots,\u201d who wear their ignorance on their sleeves, and Obama-worshipping liberals, whose gullibility is sickening, came from federal judge Richard Leon, who declared the Obama-sanctioned NSA spying to be \u201calmost Orwellian.\u201d As the American Civil Liberties Union realized, federal judge Leon\u2019s decision vindicated Edward Snowden by ruling that the NSA spying is likely outside what the Constitution permits, \u201clabeling it \u2018Orwellian\u2019\u2014adding that James Madison would be \u2018aghast.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n