{"id":129320,"date":"2014-07-10T00:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/?p=23284"},"modified":"2014-07-10T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:22:24","slug":"washingtons-arrogance-will-destroy-its-empire-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/washingtons-arrogance-will-destroy-its-empire-paul-craig-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Arrogance Will Destroy Its Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington reeks of the stench of evil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/em>
\nRINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Alone among the governments in the world, Washington requires sovereign governments to follow Washington\u2019s laws even when Washington\u2019s laws contradict the laws of sovereign countries.<\/p>\n

The examples are endless. For example, Washington forced Switzerland to violate and to repeal Switzerland\u2019s historic bank secrecy laws. Washington executes citizens of other countries, as well as its own citizens, without due process of law. Washington violates the sovereignty of other countries and murders the countries\u2019 citizens with drones, bombs, and special forces teams. Washington kidnaps abroad citizens of other countries and either brings them to the US to be tried under US law or sends them to another country to be tortured in secret torture centers. Washington tells banks in other countries with whom they can do business and when the banks disobey, Washington blackmails them into compliance or imposes fines that threaten their existence. Last week Washington forced a French bank to pay Washington $9 billion dollars or be banned from its US operations, because the bank financed trade with countries disapproved by Washington.<\/p>\n

Washington issues ultimatums to sovereign nations to do as they are told or \u201cbe bombed into the stone age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington violates diplomatic immunity and forces down the planes of presidents of sovereign countries to be illegally searched.<\/p>\n

Washington ordered its UK vassal to violate the laws and conventions governing political asylum and to refuse free passage to Julian Assange to Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Washington ordered Russia to violate its laws and to hand over Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n

Russia is strong enough to refuse to comply with Washington\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

So what did Washington do?<\/p>\n

The city upon the hill, the light unto the world, the \u201cindispensable, exceptional government,\u201d kidnapped Roman Seleznyov, the son of a Russian MP, in a foreign country, the Republic of the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Seleznyov was seized by Washington as he boarded a flight to Moscow and was spirited away on a private plane to US controlled territory where he was arrested on bogus fraud charges.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Washington of kidnapping a Russian citizen in \u201ca new hostile move by Washington\u201d against the Russian people.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt whatsoever that Seleznyov\u2019s kidnapping is illegal\u2014as is everything Washington has done since the Clinton regime. Seleznyov\u2019s father, a member of the Russian legislative body, believes that Washington kidnapped his son in order to exchange him for Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n

Seleznyov was immediately, without any evidence, charged with imaginary offenses amounting to 30 years in prison. The fascist head of Homeland Security declared that the completely illegal action by the the Washington Gestapo is an \u201cimportant arrest\u201d that \u201csends a clear message\u201d that \u201cthe long arm of justice\u2014and this Department\u2014will continue to disrupt and dismantle sophisticated criminal organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US Secret Service declared the Russian MP\u2019s son to be \u201cone of the world\u2019s most prolific traffickers of stolen financial information.\u201d<\/p>\n

What utter bullshit!<\/p>\n

As the entire world now knows, the greatest thief of financial information is Washington\u2019s National Stasi Agency. Washington\u2019s Stasi Agency has stolen for the benefit of US corporations that make generous political contributions financial information from companies in Brazil, Germany, France, China, Japan, indeed, everywhere. Washington\u2019s Stasi have even stolen the Chancellor of Germany\u2019s private cell phone conversations.<\/p>\n

The world was stupid to trust American information systems which serve as spy devices. Anyone who purchases an American brand name computer, or relies on American Internet services, can know for a fact that Washington\u2019s National Stasi Agency has complete information about them. The other governments thought that they had a free ride on US capital investment, but what this free ride meant was that no government and no population had proprietary information and secrets.<\/p>\n

The US National Stasi Agency can blackmail the entire population of the world.<\/p>\n

According to the neoconservatives, the right to spy on the world is the right of the \u201cindispensable\u201d people, as represented by the \u201cexceptional government\u201d in Washington.<\/p>\n

The world is stupid in many other ways in the trust misplaced in Washington. NGOs funded by Washington operate in many countries and serve as Washington\u2019s Fifth Columns. Washington can call out its NGOs into the streets to challenge and overthrow non-cooperating governments or to create for Washington propaganda against targeted governments, as Washington did when it called out its Russian NGOs to protest in the Russian streets that Putin stole the election. These NGOs are proud of the blood that they have, or soon will have, on their hands. It shows that they are important agents of the Empire.<\/p>\n

With a captive Western media and European governments plus Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, S. Korea and the Philippines, Washington can brazen out its lies and false charges. \u201cSaddam Hussein has weapons of Mass Destruction.\u201d No one has been punished for this costly lie. \u201cAssad of Syria used chemical weapons against his own people.\u201d No one has been punished for this costly lie. \u201cRussia invaded Ukraine.\u201d No one has been published for this costly lie. \u201cEdward Snowden is a Chinese\/Russian\/someone\u2019s spy and a traitor to boot for telling Americans about the illegal actions of their government.\u201d No one has been punished for this lie. \u201cJulian Assange is a spy for making leaked documents of Washington\u2019s crimes available on the Internet.\u201d No one has been punished for this lie.<\/p>\n

Every American opposed to Wall Street\u2019s and Washington\u2019s hegemony has been declared to be persona non grata. Such Americans are \u201cdomestic extremists,\u201d who are now the focus of the Gestapo Homeland Security, a well armed military force, in contravention of the Posse Comitatus Act. Homeland Security is an illegal and unconstitutional force directed at the American people. The sheeple American people are forced to pay for it as their homes are foreclosed and those that aren\u2019t foreclosed are invaded by goon thug SWAT teams.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists are in the way of capitalist profits, and the capitalists rule, not the environmentalists. Environmentalists are \u201cdomestic extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

War protesters are investigated as \u201cagents of foreign powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

People concerned with the fate of animals and the decline of species due to habitat destruction by greedy, short-term motivated corporations, are on the list of \u201cdomestic extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is owned by the private interest groups who have bought our government. The US Supreme Court is the great enemy of the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

Law is misused to send millions of innocents, especially the young, and Americans whose violations are inconsequential to prison in order to support the revenue needs of the privatized prison system and the career needs of prosecutors.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to imagine a country as wrong as the US, where government serves not the people but a tiny handful of the one percent, a government incapable of delivering any kind of justice, a government that if it uttered truth would destroy itself.<\/p>\n

Washington reeks of evil. And the world is beginning to realize it.<\/p>\n

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