Let there be Leaks. Let there be breaks in the ranks. Let there be Dissenters. J'accuse!

[chill_wind]

It's been a long while since I posted this, having stumbled on it back in 2006. It seems as appropriate today as ever.

In honor of the courageous and the whistleblowers, the leakers and dissenters and protesters........

In contempt of facilitators of fascism the world over.... and right here in the United States.

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Facilitating Fascism
J'accuse by Zbignew Zingh
copyleft 2006

What kind of doctors has the United States trained who stand by idly while prison guards force-feed prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with plastic pipes shoved down the noses of the shackled and tortured?

What kind of psychologists have we educated who assist the Pentagon inventing new ways to torture men and women, breaking their minds without breaking their skin; who help create government propaganda, plant false news stories, devise “psy-ops” to mislead us all?

What kind of lawyers are these who work for the Department of “Justice”, the “Defense” Department, the Pentagon or the White House, who waste their careers finding legal loop-holes justifying torture, deceit, eavesdropping and imprisonment without charge?

What manner of scientists, hardware and software engineers have we graduated who dedicate their intelligence and creativity to devising deadlier weapons, more secretive ways to snoop, and more innovative ways to kill?

What types of ministers, priests, rabbis, chaplains and reverends are these who mutter empty palliatives to their congregations, run through empty chants and mindless prayers and paeans to Love and Holiness in pursuit of a Life to Come, while today, right now, human carrion burns in their names, and naught do they do at all?

What types of writers, journalists, editors, reporters, actors, what types of men and women are these who slavishly say and write and do as they are told knowing that they spread lies and deception and blather?

Although this nation is led by a few, its actions are facilitated by many. We are the facilitators – the professionals, the educated, the trained – we are the ones whose skills and knowledge keep the whole machinery moving, the cogs oiled, the system operating smoothly. Without the collaboration of the entire class of facilitators, nothing happens. No invasions occur, no bombs drop, no one is tortured, no one is disappeared, no doublespeak is spoken. The minority of “Leaders” do not actually commit hands-on crimes. You will not find Mr. Rumsfeld's, Mr. Cheney's, Mr. Bush's fingerprints at the crime scenes in Iraq any more than you could find Mr. Kissinger's on the casket of Allende. The leaders lead, but their employees, the facilitator classes, do the deeds.

I deny that America is a land of fools. We all know. Everyone of us. What some do not know, they do not want to know. The myth of propaganda is that it imparts falsehoods to the people. The truth of propaganda is that it discovers the falsehoods that the people want to believe, and imparts it to them as they want it.

The hypnotist cannot hypnotize someone who is not willing.

The falsehoods disseminated by the Leaders and the Media are the alibis for the Many doing what they want to do anyway. Propaganda is the cover for the crime: We did not know what we were doing. We were deceived. We were dupes. We were fools. Therefore, we can profit and do what we do with a clear conscience.

J'accuse!

There is no one in the educated world who cannot know the truth if s/he will know it.

The psychologists, lawyers, writers, reporters, ministers, scientists, engineers and doctors who deny the reality of the harm they do as employees and as gladiators-for-hire for this global empire would also deny the nose on their face.

The brightest minds on earth gave us the nuclear bomb... deployed by the dumbest, most venal minds on earth. Science and medicine and the law, in the service of military aggression, do not discover knowledge, heal or seek truth. Rather, they become weapons themselves, no better than cudgels wielded by cavemen. The scientist, doctor, psychologist, chaplain or reporter who sell their services, and their professional oaths, their professional creeds, their professional standards, for the sake of a Job, a Career and Security, do not deserve the name “professionals.” These are not real doctors, psychologists, lawyers or scientists who “research” on behalf of their clients and employers how better to harm people, how more efficiently to interrogate them, how more effectively to kill them, how to sell them more drugs, more lies and more harmful products, how to develop more intrusive technologies to probe private lives. They are prostitutes. They are mice. They are the facilitators of crime. They know it. We know it.

J'accuse!

It is not endless polite protest and demonstrations - as and where permitted - that will stop war and aggression. Nor will socially responsible investing nor voting for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum nor giving to charity nor meditating nor even publishing trivial little essays like this.

What puts a stop to all is when the majority of the facilitators of fascism – the professionals, the psychologists, lawyers, doctors, writers, reporters, teachers, ministers, priests, rabbis, scientists and engineers decide, at last... if ever... to rebel against the employment that makes them well-salaried galley slaves rowing to the beat of a danse macabre.

Let there be Leaks.

Let there be breaks in the ranks.

Let there be Dissenters.

Let there evolve vertebrate professionals and the evolution of a new facilitator class. One with true professionalism. A facilitator class with class.

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[Autumn]

1. They are mice.

We know it. K/R Excellent

[chill_wind]

2. They are prostitutes. They are facilitators of crime.

They know it. We know it.

Thank you Autumn.

[Autumn]

3. Thank you.

That brought tears to my eyes. My, how low we have fallen.

[felix_numinous]

4. People have to pick a side

their evil overlords or to the law, because when the tide turns and the investigations start, they will wish they sided with their conscience. This is what I hope happens.

[tekisui]

5. knr!

[chill_wind]

11. thank you tekisui

for reading it.

[sabrina 1]

6. Too late to rec

But thank you for posting. There WERE heroes, back then. There Military Prosecutors who quit rather than participate in the unconstitutional Military Commissions Act, Habeas Corpus destroying scam being conducted at Guantanamo Bay.

There were others who could not bear to participate either, like a young female soldier in Iraq who took her own life, or so we were told, after refusing to participate in the 'interrogations' being conducted in another one of our gulags.

I think it's way past time to list those who resisted as the heroes they are and were but who are being forgotten when they should be held up as examples of what a hero is.

The war criminals would prefer we not talk about them. People of conscience, they are the enemy of evil which is why in this country today, we do not talk about them or we prosecute them and call them traitors.

I think history will record the events of this period accurately though. History has a way of exposing evil which as it was occuring, seemed too powerful to overcome.

I would not want to be on the wrong side of history as so many of our elected officials are. History will seek them out and expose them. It always does.

[chill_wind]

7. Well spoken. What does it say about our country and our government

when the present lesson so far has been that you're better off committing a war crime than exposing one? I keep thinking about this recent bit of writing about Bradley Manning's detention as an example that makes this point all too incisively.

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/under-obama-better-to-com_b_832191.html

The Obama admin decision making stakes here are high in how long they want to keep shielding and facilitating those that were at the top echelons. They know it. We`know it. History, too, will remember it.

[Delphinus]

8. Thanks for this.

May the light continue to fins a way to shine, as hard as some of those beams may be to take.

[xchrom]

9. kick

[chill_wind]

10. Thank you xchrom.

:hug:

[xchrom]

12. ...

:toast: