{"id":84141,"date":"2013-06-25T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/?p=17414"},"modified":"2013-06-25T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:31:26","slug":"a-new-beginning-without-washingtons-sanctimonious-mask-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/a-new-beginning-without-washingtons-sanctimonious-mask-paul-craig-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning Without Washington\u2019s Sanctimonious Mask \u2013 Paul Craig Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Beginning Without Washington\u2019s Sanctimonious Mask<\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n

It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are making over Edward Snowden. We have known for a long time that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without warrants on the communications of Americans and people throughout the world. Photographs of the massive NSA building in Utah built for the purpose of storing the intercepted communications of the world have been published many times. <\/p>\n

It is not clear to an ordinary person what Snowden has revealed that William Binney and other whistleblowers have not already revealed. Perhaps the difference is that Snowden has provided documents that prove it, thereby negating Washington\u2019s ability to deny the facts with its usual lies.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason for Washington\u2019s blather, it certainly is not doing the US government any good. Far more interesting than Snowden\u2019s revelations is the decision by governments of other countries to protect a truth-teller from the Stasi in Washington.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong kept Snowden\u2019s whereabouts secret so that an amerikan black-op strike or a drone could not be sent to murder him. Hong Kong told Washington that its extradition papers for Snowden were not in order and permitted Snowden to leave for Moscow.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government did not interfere with Snowden\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

The Russian government says it has no objection to Snowden having a connecting flight in Moscow. <\/p>\n

Ecuador\u2019s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino responded to Washington\u2019s threats with a statement that the Ecuadorian government puts human rights above Washington\u2019s interests. Foreign Minister Patino said that Snowden served humanity by revealing that the Washington Stasi was violating the rights of \u201cevery citizen in the world.\u201d Snowden merely betrayed \u201csome elites that are in power in a certain country,\u201d whereas Washington betrayed the entire world.<\/p>\n

With Hong Kong, China, Russia, Ecuador, and Cuba refusing to obey the Stasi\u2019s orders, Washington is flailing around making a total fool of itself and its media prostitutes. <\/p>\n

Secretary of State John Kerry has been issuing warnings hand over fist. He has threatened Russia, China, Ecuador, and every country that aids and abets Snowden\u2019s escape from the Washington Stasi. Those who don\u2019t do Washington\u2019s bidding, Kerry declared, will suffer adverse impacts on their relationship with the US. <\/p>\n

What a stupid thing for Kerry to say. Here is a guy who once was for peace but who has been turned by NSA spying on his personal affairs into an asset for the NSA. Try to realize the extraordinary arrogance and hubris in Kerry\u2019s threat that China, Russia, and other countries will suffer bad relations with the US. Kerry is saying that amerika doesn\u2019t have to care whether \u201cthe indispensable people\u201d have bad relations with other countries, but those countries have to be concerned if they have bad relations with the \u201cindispensable country.\u201d What an arrogant posture for the US government to present to the world.<\/p>\n

Here we have a US Secretary of State lost in delusion along with the rest of Washington. A country that is bankrupt, a country that has allowed its corporations to destroy its economy by moving the best jobs offshore, a country whose future is in the hands of the printing press, a country that after eleven years of combat has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban is now threatening Russia and China. God save us from the utter fools who comprise our government.<\/p>\n

The world is enjoying Washington\u2019s humiliation at the hands of Hong Kong. A mere city state gave Washington the bird. In its official statement, Hong Kong shifted the focus from Snowden to his message and asked the US government to explain its illegal hacking of Hong Kong\u2019s information systems.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s state newspaper, The People\u2019s Daily, wrote: \u201cThe United States has gone from a model of human rights to an eavesdropper on personal privacy, the manipulator of the centralized power over the international internet, and the mad invader of other countries\u2019 networks. . . The world will remember Edward Snowden. It was his fearlessness that tore off Washington\u2019s sanctimonious mask.\u201d <\/p>\n

China\u2019s Global Times, a subsidiary of The People\u2019s Daily, accused Washington of attacking \u201ca young idealist who has exposed the sinister scandals of the US government.\u201d Instead of apologizing \u201cWashington is showing off its muscle by attempting to control the whole situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency reported that Snowden\u2019s revelations had placed \u201cWashington in a really awkward situation. They demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that Russia\u2019s sympathy is with Snowden, not with the amerikan Stasi state. Human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that it was unrealistic to expect the Russian government to violate law to seize a transit passenger who had not entered Russia and was not on Russian soil. RT\u2019s Gayane Chichakyan reported that Washington is doing everything it can to shift attention away from Snowden\u2019s revelations that \u201cshow that the US has lied and has been doing the same as they accuse China of doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ecuador says the traitor is Washington, not Snowden.<\/p>\n

The stuck pig squeals from the NSA director–\u201dEdward Snowden has caused irreversible damage to US\u201d–are matched by the obliging squeals from members of the House and Senate, themselves victims of the NSA spying, as was the Director of the CIA who was forced to resign because of a love affair. The NSA is in position to blackmail everyone in the House and Senate, in the White House itself, in all the corporations, the universities, the media, every organization at home and abroad, who has anything to hide. You can tell who is being blackmailed by the intensity of the squeals, such as those of Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) and Mike Rogers (R, MI). With any luck, a patriot will leak what the NSA has on Feinstein and Rogers, neither of whom could possibly scrape any lower before the NSA. <\/p>\n

The gangster government in Washington that has everything to hide is now in NSA\u2019s hands and will follow orders. The pretense that amerika is a democracy responsible to the people has been exposed. The US is run by and for the NSA. Congress and the White House are NSA puppets. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s quit calling the NSA the National Security Agency. Clearly, NSA is a threat to the security of every person in the entire world. Let\u2019s call the NSA what it really is–the National Stasi Agency, the largest collection of Gestapo in human history. You can take for granted that every media whore, every government prostitute, every ignorant flag-waver who declares Snowden to be a traitor is either brainwashed or blackmailed. They are the protectors of NSA tyranny. They are our enemies.<\/p>\n

The world has been growing increasingly sick of Washington for a long time. The bullying, the constant stream of lies, the gratuitous wars and destruction have destroyed the image hyped by Washington of the US as a \u201clight unto the world.\u201d The world sees the US as a plague upon the world. <\/p>\n

Following Snowden\u2019s revelations, Germany\u2019s most important magazine, Der Spiegal, had the headline: \u201cObama\u2019s Soft Totalitarianism: Europe Must Protect Itself From America.\u201d The first sentence of the article asks: \u201cIs Barack Obama a friend? Revelations about his government\u2019s vast spying program call that into doubt. The European Union must protect the Continent from America\u2019s reach for omnipotence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Der Spiegal continues: \u201cWe are being watched. All the time and everywhere. And it is the Americans who are doing the watching. On Tuesday, the head of the largest and most all-encompassing surveillance system ever invented is coming for a visit. If Barack Obama is our friend then we really don\u2019t need to be terribly worried about our enemies.\u201d <\/p>\n

There is little doubt that German Interior Minister Hans Peter Friedrich has lost his secrets to NSA spies. Friedrich rushed to NSA\u2019s defense, declaring: \u201dthat\u2019s not how you treat friends.\u201d As Der Spiegal made clear, the minister was not referring \u201cto the fact that our trans-Atlantic friends were spying on us. Rather, he meant the criticism of that spying. Friedrich\u2019s reaction is only paradoxical on the surface and can be explained by looking at geopolitical realities. The US is, for the time being, the only global power–and as such it is the only truly sovereign state in existence. All others are dependent–either as enemies or allies. And because most prefer to be allies, politicians–Germany\u2019s included–prefer to grin and bear it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is extraordinary that the most important publication in Germany has acknowledged that the German government is Washington\u2019s puppet state. <\/p>\n

Der Spiegel says: \u201cGerman citizens should be able to expect that their government will protect them from spying by foreign governments. But the German interior minister says instead: \u2018We are grateful for the excellent cooperation with US secret services.\u2019 Friedrich didn’t even try to cover up his own incompetence on the surveillance issue. \u2018Everything we know about it, we have learned from the media,\u2019 he said. The head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, was not any more enlightened. \u2018I didn’t know anything about it,\u2019 he said. And Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was also apparently in the dark. \u2018These reports are extremely unsettling,\u2019 she said. With all due respect: These are the people who are supposed to be protecting our rights? If it wasn’t so frightening, it would be absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those moronic amerikans who say, \u201cI\u2019m not doing anything wrong, I don\u2019t care if they spy,\u201d Der Spiegal writes that a \u201cmonitored human being is not a free one.\u201d<\/em> We have reached the point where we \u201cfree americans\u201d have to learn from our German puppets that we are not free.<\/p>\n

Here, read it for yourself: http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/europe-must-stand-up-to-american-cyber-snooping-a-906250.html<\/a> <\/p>\n

Present day Germany is a new country, flushed of its past by war and defeat. Russia is also a new country that has emerged from the ashes of an unrealistic ideology. Hope always resides with those countries that have most experienced evil in government. If Germany were to throw off its amerikan overlord and depart NATO, amerikan power in Europe would collapse. If Germany and Russia were to unite in defense of truth and human rights, Europe and the world would have a new beginning. <\/p>\n

A new beginning is desperately needed. Chris Floyd explains precisely what is going on, which is something you will never hear from the presstitutes. Read it while you still can: http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/follow-the-money-the-secret-heart-of-the-secret-state-the-deeper-implications-of-the-snowden-revelations\/5340132 <\/a> <\/p>\n

There would be hope if Americans could throw off their brainwashing, follow the lead of Debra Sweet and others, and stand up for Edward Snowden and against the Stasi State. http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/populum\/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=167695<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\n About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> is now available. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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