Katy Tur just had on perhaps the one true hero of latter day America
Daniel Ellsberg
About whom they’re doing a show tomorrow night
He’s got a new book out, Doomsday Machine, which I just got from my communistically styled, Tax (hahaha...auto complete tax into Tass) supported library
I was proud to have been in the march on Washington in 2003, with him at the head of the group of very outraged protestors
He went to jail from that march....IIRC, he was already in jail for protesting something else, and they let him out for the march
It was a high point, but, as all marches seem to do, since Vietnam, didn’t accomplish much
His story is compelling, and should be spread far and wide (he was fairly certain to be spending a long stretch in prison for his efforts to inform the public about the venal lies that got us into the Vietnamese civil war, much as they lied us into Iraq, among other hot spots) .. particularly directed at anyone in the current junta who might have some semblance of a conscience, some sense of what their party has become, and what it’s doing to our country
If it hadn’t been for the plumbers, he’d have most likely been relegated to the status of the like of a Snowden, among others seen as mere traitors, as opposed to patriotic whistleblowers
Heard him on the radio yesterday, talking about touching an H bomb at a B 52 base, and feeling the radioactive thermal energy release, leaving it very warm on his hand
He related the discussions (in which he participated), that were satirized in Dr. Strangelove, during which they bandied about the deaths of 150 MILLION people, even in a first strike US attack, which would have left the commie response greatly reduced
Funny stuff!
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