“Humanitarians” attempt genocidal cleansing to make “fittest”

 POPULATION CONTROL: Sanger legacy lives in Government-Foundation-Pharma demographics-making Depo Provera

Re-reporting, editing, comment by Carolyn Bennett

Margaret Sanger speaks to
her kind

Margaret Sanger, they say, was a Klan speaker and a member in good standing with the American Eugenics Society. She was founder of Planned Parenthood and, in her time, reportedly called for requiring parents to have a license to breed. This licensing breeding or breeding licensing process, of course, would be controlled by people who believed in her eugenic (our-kind–are-the- only- kind- fit- for- reproduction) philosophy. In Sanger’s program, people who would be parents would stand before her eugenics boards and beg for a “permit to breed.” In 1950 this enormously arrogant woman with a distorted view of herself was quoted saying:

‘I consider that the world and almost our civilization for the next twenty-five years is going to depend upon a simple, cheap, safe contraceptive to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people. [Speaking of ignorance of a willful kind!]

‘Even this will not be sufficient because I believe that now, immediately; there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic (biologically defective) types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.’ 

 Funders of population control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, represented by the latter Gates was last year on the program of a London Summit on Family Planning pushing population control on unsuspecting nations: “helping” poor Africans and Asians by injecting the women with Depo-Provera and other dangerous contraceptive drugs. 

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n a 2011 Queryjoy article, “Agents of Change: Women of Color are Targeted for Mass Sterilization,” the authors cite numerous dangers in the drugs Planned Parenthood and the Gateses are foisting ─ in the name of humanitarianism ─ on women in Asia and Africa (as well as in the United States). “Contraindications for such treatments as (Pfizer and Upjohn’s) Depo-Provera,” the authors said, “are well known and studied”:

Half of the women who use injectable contraceptives experience amenorrhea (loss or suppression of menstruation) within the first year

Most women go through a period of prolonged bleeding during the first four months of using injectable contraceptives;

Common side effects include pain at the injection site, weight gain and skin reactions like rashes or dark spots;

Women may experience changes in sex drive or appetite, nervousness, depression, sore breasts, nausea and hair loss or growth on the body or face

Mild headaches or dizziness could be indicative of a more serious issue relating to blood pressure or clotting. (Pfizer Pharmaceuticals reports)

Multiple risk factors for arterial cardiovascular disease;

Complications of thrombosis/thromboembolism leading to stroke and heart attack: severe chest pain or shortness of breath, severe headache with vision problems, sharp pain in leg or abdomen;

The osteoporotic effects of the injection grow worse the longer Depo-Provera is administered. (Contraindications revealed in research beyond Pfizer’s data)

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he Cultural Survival website recalled in an article three years ago that population control was the catch word of the 1950s and 1960s and the silent reality of the 1970s and 1980s; and predictably, Third World populations have borne the brunt of new drug experimentation and population control policies.

“Experimental contraceptives were sponsored by SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) in Bangladesh.

Women in Puerto Rico and Mexico were used to test contraceptives without their consent.

Depo-Provera was used experimentally on 8000 women in San Pablo, Mexico; 120,000 in Sri Lanka; and 250,000 in Bangladesh.

Policies of sterilization of native people have been pursued throughout the world. Since 1960 USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has been a major funder of Third World population control, providing half of the money for internationally-funded birth control programs and family planning services, including the Pill, IUD, and sterilization.

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n 2005, Hampshire College Program Coordinator for the Population and Development Program, Amy Oliver, with student Diana Dukhanova, wrote that Depo-Provera had for years “served as both a subtle and blatant tool for population control in developing countries despite the fact that risks are aggravated in places where medical monitoring is difficult or impossible.

“Under apartheid in South Africa, Depo was typically given to women without adequate screening and health services, which were virtually inaccessible to rural populations. Many black South African women were coerced into using Depo and were sometimes forced to use it in order to keep their jobs. Although this does not mean Depo is always misused in developing countries, its vast history of abuse by population control programs and potential for further misuse (particularly in areas of high HIV risk such as South Africa) call into question its ultimate safety for women.” 

They concluded that “while it is true that because of poor living conditions and lack of prenatal care, a woman’s chance of dying during childbirth is generally higher in developing than in developed countries,

…it is a cruel trade-off to pit the risks of an unwanted pregnancy and childbirth against using Depo (with possible increased risk of contracting HIV) as a woman’s only two options.

If we are really   concerned with reducing death rates related to childbirth, we instead should focus on improving overall standards of living and prenatal care for women in Kenya and elsewhere.

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he Agents of Change article said that though foundations such as Planned Parenthood and the Gates “paint a picture of despair: poverty can be reduced by managing world population of Blacks, Latinos, and Native Women”; it is untrue that poverty can be reduced if populations were kept in check; the “exact opposite is true:

 

…reducing poverty will keep population growth in check. 

The only effective method for stabilizing or controlling the human population is to raise the standard of living for the world’s poor ─ this includes providing people with the capacity and resources to accomplish this.

 It has long been known that all populations tend to over-reproduce in order to overcome environmental stress through selective advantage to assure the continuation of the species. 

“Humanitarians’” manipulation of statistics is intended to wrest control from local communities in developing and implementing their own programming. These foundations’ “over-simplification of data and their social and biology theory is nothing more than artificial selection (choosing the fittest, which ethnicity and racial groups will survive and thrive) “aimed at producing a desired outcome.”

Ancient Middle East

Cruelty indeed. The incestuous reproducing of one’s own kind ─ not to mention human beings' deliberate insularity, consider popes and priests and their ilk ─ is known to cause insanity and other forms of mental and psychological impairment. 

Ancient African civilizations

This possibly explains Sanger and Sanger celebrated and a Sanger legacy manifested in the cruelty of criminally capitalist governments, foundations and drug companies. 

Ah, but, over is not yet over: Consider civilizations thousands of years old (Mesopotamia’s 8,000 years!), despite Western attempts in a few hundred years to destroy them. Eons on Earth will show who are the fittest and who have survived.

  

Sources and notes

“Melinda Gates pushes Population Control as cost saver,” July 11, 2012, http://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/melinda-gates-pushes-population-control-as-cost-saver/

“Agents of Change: Women of Color are Targeted for Mass Sterilization,” (“Deeming themselves ‘change agents’ is Planned Parenthood, developers and administers of activities modeled by red, yellow and brown faces. Planned Parenthood’s primary function is to advocate for population control in the guise of reproductive rights.”), Posted by queryjoy ⋅ April 21, 2011, http://queryjoy.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/planned-parenthood-and-eugenics-distorted-conceptions-of-race/

Cultural Survival helps Indigenous Peoples around the world defend their lands, languages, and cultures as they deal with issues like the one you’ve just read about.

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http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/thailand/population-control

SEATO

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) ─ formed as a response “to the demand that the Southeast Asian area be protected against communist expansionism, especially as manifested through military aggression in Korea and Indochina and through subversion backed by organized armed forces in Malaysia and the Philippines ─ was a regional-defense organization (1955-1977) created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty and signed at Manila on September 8, 1954, by the representatives of Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The treaty came into force on February 19, 1955. Pakistan withdrew in 1968, and France suspended financial support in 1975. The organization held its final exercise on February 20, 1976, and formally ended on June 30, 1977. [Britannica]

U.S.A.I.D.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ─ created by executive order of President John F. Kennedy to implement development assistance programs in the areas authorized by the Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act ─ is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.

The stated goals of USAID include providing ‘economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.’

Technically an independent federal agency, USAID operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe ─ subject to the foreign policy guidance of the U.S. President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council.  Through annual funds appropriation acts and other legislation, the U.S. Congress updates authorization for the agency. Sources: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do and Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAID

 2005 Paper by Amy Oliver, Hampshire College Program Coordinator for the Population and Development Program, an organization dedicated to promoting reproductive rights, economic justice, and social equality for women; and Diana Dukhanova, then a fourth-year student at  Hampshire College concentrating in Russian literature and with primary activist interests in reproductive rights; she had worked since her first year for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program and Population and Development Program, http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org/gsn/downloads/2005-4.pdf

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Marriage mongers deny, UN Women promote “EQUALITY”

STARK CONTRAST between expanding exclusivity and open movement to free all women from subordination

Editing, re-reporting, comment by Carolyn Bennett

“As a set of time-bound targets, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a critical role in mobilizing integrated international action on global poverty issues,” UN Women write in a newly released position paper calling for a transformative agenda to make gender equality a reality. 

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nequality and discrimination based on gender is an impediment to the achievement of women’s rights and was recognized in the Millennium Declaration as a significant factor undermining progress in many contexts.

“This recognition led to the inclusion of a stand-alone goal on gender equality and women’s empowerment (MDG3) and the integration of gender perspectives in other goals through some targets and indicators. As such, MDG3 and the mainstreaming of gender considerations into other goals were an important signal that gender equality and women’s empowerment remain a clear global 

Global
Women

priority.

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owever, with a few years to go, evaluation of the MDG framework reveals a mixed picture that points to success in some areas (including in reducing extreme poverty, improving access to education and to safe drinking water), but less progress in others (e.g. in reducing hunger and maternal mortality, and improving access to sanitation). These mixed results in achieving the MDGs have been attributed to lack of attention to the policies needed to achieve the desired outcomes or to the structural problems that must be tackled. 

Women and children
caught in 
war and conflict
Iraq

…The prevalence of conflict around the world challenges us to address this issue holistically in any new framework.  Social injustice and inequality and the perception of exclusion and marginalization can be powerful triggers of violent conflict and war.

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t the same time, militarization diverts resources away from social and economic investments which can reduce inequalities and facilitate the realization of human rights.[ (Excerpt paper’s introduction)

Caught
In war and conflict
Palestine

Stark contrasts evidenced in this week's “gender” news. 

As UN women released a paper calling for the unshackling of all women ─ transforming gender power relations ─ the gay community lesbian women among them were celebrating loss of “equality”: the shackling of women. Some, however, took exception to this mentally impaired celebratory point of view.

Against Equality:
Queer challenges to the
politics of Inclusion
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The group Against Equality, whose website statement includes challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, denounced gay marriage as “ap[ing] hetero privilege and allow[ing] everyone to forget that marriage ought not to be the guarantor of rights …

“In their constant invoking of the ‘right’ to gay marriage,” the group notes, “mainstream gays and lesbians express a confused tangle of wishes and desires. …

“We wish

they would simply cop to (admit) it:

Their vision of marriage is the same as that of the [political] Right, and far from creating FULL EQUALITY NOW! as so many insist (in all caps and exclamation marks, no less) ─ gay marriage increases economic inequality by perpetuating a system that deems married beings more worthy of the basics like health care and economic rights.”

Yasmin Nair

In her 2009 article “Dump Gay Marriage Now,” Yasmin Nair wrote: “As we quibble about marriage, it is easy to forget that a rise in poverty and the lack of health care means that large segments of society are already denied their rights to decent education, housing, and a sense of security about their well-being.”

 

Human rights should not depend on “marriage” but …

“In the United States … marital status is increasingly what determines legal status as well as legitimacy as a subject of the state.”

Civil unions or domestic partnerships have lost comparable standing and single (“bachelordom”?) is looked on as alien, aberrant or taboo.  “Nowhere is this more apparent than in the treatment accorded to single mothers on welfare,” Nair writes. “Following the egregiously named ‘Welfare Reform’ package of 1996, poor women in particular have been subject to the kind of state intervention into their lives that would be held as unconstitutional if exerted on any other segment of society. …The stigma against unmarried people swirls around in U.S. culture at large, with an overwhelming array of messages in the media about single people as desperate, lonely souls who need to find their life mates if they are ever to be considered as human beings. …

Fiction
Fairy tale
Illusion
Exclusion

“I hear from straight friends that they are being compelled to marry,” she recalls, “because they are afraid that their unemployed/underemployed partners might be left vulnerable without their health care. All of this takes energy from the fight for universal health care.…”

Without rights, without freedom, without equality, without empowerment

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Fiction
Fairy tale
Illusion
Exclusion

The intense personalization of gay marriage as an emotional cause (i.e. as something that should matter because of the grief it causes your gay neighbor), is just another way to rationalize and increase the relentless privatization of everyday life,” Nair writes, “another way to absolve the state of its responsibility to its subjects.”

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he United States is the only Western nation that does not provide health care. That ─ and not the fact that we don’t have gay marriage ─ should be something that shames us all.” 

UN Women
Gender Equality
Women's Rights
Women's Empowerment

Real proponent of true equality ─ Holistic vision

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eturning to their call for “a transformative agenda to make gender equality a reality,” United Nations Women highlight these targets to address core elements of gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment:

Freedom from violence against women and girls

Women and girls
USA

Concrete actions to eliminate the debilitating fear and/or experience of violence must be a centerpiece of any future framework.

This violence, which causes great physical and psychological harm to women and girls, is a violation of their human rights; [it] constrains their ability to fulfill their true potential and carries great economic costs for them and for society.

Gender equality in capabilities and resources

Women
Viet Nam

The often skewed distribution of capabilities,  such as knowledge and health – encompassing sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights for women and adolescent girls, as well as resources and opportunities, such as productive assets (including land), decent work and equal pay – needs to be addressed with renewed urgency to build women’s economic and social security.

Gender equality in decision-making power in public and private institutions

Women
Pakistan

Women
India

The low numbers of women in public decision-making, from national parliaments to local councils, must be remedied to ensure that women feature prominently in democratic institutions and their voices are heard in public and private deliberations.

The lack of voice in decision-making is also found in the key institutions influencing public opinion and promoting accountability, such as the media and civil society, as well as in private-sector institutions, such as in the management and governance of firms. It has its roots in unequal power relations in the family and community.

Women
Ethiopia

Women
Ivory Coast

There are significant national and regional variations in gender relations, and countries will vary in their approaches to – and set their own targets for – advancing gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment.

While every country will have its own way of organizing policies and

Women
Afghanistan

resources to meet its commitments to the achievement of gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment, these three priority target areas represent ‘minimum transformation in gender power relations can be achieved standard’ elements that should be addressed, consistent with international commitments.

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The interlinked and complex nature of women’s subordination means that only a comprehensive approach, encompassing actions in all three of these areas is likely to achieve gender equality. 

 It is only through this kind of holistic approach that meaningful, lasting transformation in gender power relations can be achieved

The contrast

Wedge
of the
Personal variety

between the two approaches – one launched by an elite we-want-the same-exclusionary-privileges-‘they’- have (neither aims toward equality or “rights” but the opposite); and a global institution calling for rights releasing and empowering women and all society is stark indeed.  

The former is a narrow-minded exclusivity that denies difference and is less than indifferent to the reality of varieties of situations, choices and people domestically and globally. A “preference” or “orientation” becomes denier of others’ preferences and orientations.

Women
India

On the other hand UN Women correctly observe that uprooting a predilection for violence (male war making and conflicit) and deep-seated prejudice and repression requires an all-round, inclusive, not narrowly particularized, approach.

Sources and notes

“UN Women launches global call for a transformative agenda to make gender equality a reality: Ending Violence against Women | Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment | Millennium Development Goals | News | Press Releases | Sustainable Development,” Posted on June 26 2013

PRESS RELEASE: Position paper calls for freedom from violence, equality in capabilities and resources, and women’s voice to be the cornerstones of a stand-alone gender equality goal

http://www.unwomen.org/2013/06/un-women-launches-global-call-for-a-transformative-agenda-to-make-womens-rights-a-reality/

See full document at:  http://www.unwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/post-2015-case-for-standalone-gender-goal.pdf

At PravdaRu: “Towards gender equality: UN Women launches global call” (Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, Source: UN Women Prepared for publication by Lisa Karpova, Pravda.Ru), June 28, 2013, 02:39, http://english.pravda.ru/history/28-06-2013/124974-gender_un_women-0/

UN Women is the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.

UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programs and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas:

1. increasing women’s leadership and participation; 

2. ending violence against women; 

3. engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; 

4. enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and 

5. making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting

UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality.

220 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017, USA; Tel: 212-906-6400 Fax: 212-906-6705 www.unwomen.org

Against Equality

Against Equality is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. As queer thinkers, writers and artists, (they) “are committed to dislodging the centrality of equality rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of marriage, the U.S. military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation. (They) want to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility!

.. - See more at: http://www.againstequality.org/#sthash.ydWz7auK.dpuf

http://www.againstequality.org/

“Dump Gay Marriage Now” (Yasmin Nair), July 02, 2009, http://www.bilerico.com/2009/07/dump_gay_marriage_now.php

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Cruel and Unusual amidst U.S. Indifference

Victoria Brittain’s 
“Miscarriages of Justice”

Edited excerpt by 

Carolyn Bennett

“TERROR”, “TORTURE”

“In the United States these days, the very word ‘terror’ ─ no less the charge of material support for it ─ invariably shuts down rather than opens any conversation.” Victoria Brittain says in a decade of research she has come to a different perspective.

She has come to this presence of mind after “researching a number of serious alleged terrorism cases on both side of the Atlantic, working alongside some extraordinary human rights lawyers, and listening to Muslim women in Great Britain and the United States whose lives were transformed by the imprisonment of a husband, father, or brother.”

SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES

Most illuminating, she says, “is the repeated use of what’s called “special administrative measures”  ─ to create a particularly isolating and punitive atmosphere for many of those charged with such crimes, those convicted of them, and even for their relatives. 

While these efforts have come fully into their own in the post-9/11 era, they were drawn from a pre-9/11 paradigm. 

  

Between the material support statute and those special administrative measures, it has become possible for the government to pre-convict and in many cases pre-punish a small set of Muslim men.

“…In addition, special administrative measures have been applied to Ahmed Abu Ali …

…a young Palestinian-American, a university student in Saudi Arabia arrested in 2003 by the Saudi government and held for 20 months without charges or access to a lawyer, they returned to the United States as his family filed a lawsuit in Washington; now serving life in the Administrative Maximum Facility, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.…

1996 - “… [Special administrative measures] were originally established in 1996 to stop communications from prison inmates who could ‘pose a substantial risk of death or serious risk of injury.’ The targets then were gang leaders. 

“Each special administrative measure was theoretically to be designed to fit the precise dangers posed by a specific prisoner. Since 9/11; however, numerous virtually identical measures have been applied to Muslim men, often like Ahmed Abu Ali with no history of violence.

Silenced: “…A question to Ahmed’s sister about how her brother is doing is answered only with a quick look. She is not allowed to say anything because special measures also prohibit family members from disclosing their communications with prisoners. They similarly prevent defense lawyers from speaking about their clients. It was for a breach of these special measures in relation to her client, the imprisoned blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, that lawyer Lynne Stewart was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Bush years.”

Breach of law: “Although these measures have been contested in court, few have ever been modified, much less thrown out. Those court challenges and evidence provided to the European Court of Human Rights by American lawyers have, however, provided a window into what one of them described as a regime of ‘draconian and inhumane treatment.’

Destroying mental and physical health: Under such special administrative measures at the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City, a prisoner lives with little natural light, no time in communal areas, no radio or TV, and sometimes no books or newspapers either, while mail and phone calls are permitted only with family, and even then are often suspended for minor infractions. Family visits are always no-contact ones conducted through Plexiglas.

…In cases where special administrative measures are in place pre-trial, such as the well-documented ordeal of American post-graduate student Syed Fahad Hashmi,

─lawyers have often been obliged to prepare cases without actually sitting with their clients, or being able to show them all court materials.

After three pre-trial years mainly in solitary confinement under special administrative measures at the Metropolitan Correction Center, Hashmi accepted a government plea bargain of one count of material support for terrorism and was given a 15-year sentence.

His crime: He allowed an acquaintance to stay at his student apartment in London, use his cell phone, and store a duffel bag there. The bag contained ponchos and waterproof socks that were later supposedly delivered to al-Qaeda, while the phone was used by that acquaintance to make calls to co-conspirators in Britain.

HIGH CRIMES AMIDST INDIFFERENCE

“…In itself, solitary confinement has devastating effects …  and is becoming ever more common in U.S. prisons in breach of internationally recognized norms on the humane treatment of prisoners.  It tends to break the will of inmates, sometimes even robbing them of their sanity. 

“However, in its most extreme use ─ combining those special administrative measures with the isolation imposed in prison communication management units … it is mainly applied to American Muslims.”

Because of special administrative measures applied in his case, Brittain writes, Ahmed Abu Ali cannot do what has been achieved in some well-publicized cases (e.g., Robert King case, Bradley Manning case, Mumia Abu Jamal case). Ahmed Abu Ali nor his family members can contact the outside world in search of the support he and they need.

Quoting Chilean novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman, Brittain writes:

…Torture ‘presupposes the… abrogation of our capacity to imagine someone else’s suffering, to dehumanize him or her so much that their pain is not our pain.

‘It demands this of the torturer… but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.’

"P

erhaps such a state helps explain why people around the world are far more aware than most Americans of what happens to Muslim men in the post-9/11 'justice system.'  The particular cruelty of the punishments they endure even before their unfair trials, will someday, like the abuses at Guantanamo, gain the attention they deserve."

Sources and notes

“Miscarriages of Justice - Victoria Brittain” (Written by Victoria Brittain, her second piece for TomDispatch), Monday, June 10, 2013,” (Article Copyright 2013 Victoria Brittain)

Victoria Brittain is a journalist and former editor at the Guardian. She has authored or co-authored two plays and four books, including Enemy Combatant with Moazzam Begg. Her latest book is Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

http://www.cageprisoners.com/our-work/opinion-editorial/item/6544-miscarriages-of-justice-victoria-brittain 

 Source 1: TomDispatch

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ROGUE GOV’T abducts, kills sans charge or trial HUNTS PATRIOTS who divulge their crimes

Disclosure of lies and unconstitutional acts resulting in serious discussion of limits of executive branch authoritarianism: civil liberties in law v. “national security” by fiat constitutes “treason” ─ sounds like “GWB’s Iraqi WMDs”

Editing and commentary by Carolyn Bennett

Patriots are defined as people who love their country and support its interests.

They ask “What can I do for my country.”

Givers of authoritarian decrees, rogue governors (think Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen) are neither patriots nor are their actions intended to preserve (uphold) the law of the land or  international law or to protect the people of this or any country or people.

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imicking Joseph McCarthy and his ilk of federal Washington’s dark past ─ even more depraved as this government is armed with highly sophisticated technological toys and an unchecked unscrupulousness in using them, an authoritarian control of news media as instruments of fear mongering, and a widespread incestuous collusion with private industrial “partners” ─ the Obama government has time and again crushed attempts to inform or make available to the public the government’s acts of “gross corruption, wrongdoing, and illegality.”

America’s fourth president James Madison: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Project, a leading whistleblower protection and advocacy group, last week released a statement concerning the false charge of espionage the Obama government and other flapping tongues in Washington have laid against the American and former Civil Servant, Edward Snowden. This is some of the Project’s statement.

Chased
by
Rogue Government

Rogue government 

Merriam-Webster defines “Rogue” (the adjective) as “aberrant, dangerous or uncontrollable; corrupt dishonest; of or being a nation whose leaders defy international law or norms of international behavior.

“

The Obama administration’s charge of espionage against Edward Snowden is not a surprise,” the Government Accountability Project wrote in its statement, [because] “This administration has continually sought to intimidate federal employees – particularly intelligence community workers – and suppress any attempt they might make to speak out against gross corruption, wrongdoing, and illegality.”

Neither spy nor traitor

“Edward Snowden is a whistleblower,” the Project said.

“He disclosed information about a secret program that he reasonably believed to be illegal, and his actions alone brought about the long-overdue national debate about the proper balance between privacy and civil liberties on the one hand and national security on the other.

“Charging Snowden with espionage is yet another effort to retaliate against those who criticize the overreach of U.S. intelligence agencies under this administration.

The charges send a clear message to potential whistleblowers: this is the treatment (you) can expect should (you) speak out about violations of the Constitution of the United States of America.

“It is particularly noteworthy,” the statement continues, “that ─

Snowden spoke truthfully to the public about NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (had) intentionally lied in his testimony before the Senate of the United States about these same activities.

Clapper, however, has not even been admonished for his purposeful, deliberate deception of both the Senate and the people of the United States.

America’s fourth president James Madison: Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Truth without safe harbor

Contrary to U.S. lawmakers’ TV-made claims to the contrary, the Government Accountability Project says, “The channels internal to intelligence agencies for whistleblowers are neither effective nor confidential.

“Their gross inadequacy is best illustrated by what befell (Government Accountability Project) clients and NSA whistleblowers Tom Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe ─ all of whom suffered retaliation after they reported internally serious misconduct at the NSA.

  

“Like these three men, Snowden will face serious consequences for exposing the wrongdoing and crimes of others.

“At the same time, those who stretched their interpretation of laws to invade the private lives of Americans ─ while lying to the U.S. Congress and the public about their actions ─ will simply continue working.”

America’s fourth president James Madison: The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. 

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Sources and notes

“GAP Statement on the Espionage Charge Filed against Edward Snowden” (The Whistleblogger 2013 by Government Accountability Project), June 22, 2013, http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/44-2013/2804-gap-statement-on-the-espionage-charge-filed-against-edward-snowden

GAP released a statement on Snowden and the NSA surveillance. Media calls regarding this statement can be directed toward GAP President Louis Clark at 202.441.0333 or louisc@whistleblower.org, or GAP Communications Director Dylan Blaylock at 202.236.3733 or dylanb@whistleblower.org. Dylan Blaylock is Communications Director for the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.

National Security and Human Rights Counsel Kathleen McClellan discussed this issue yesterday on The Pacifica Evening News (The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays, for June 24, 2013 - 6:00 p.m., http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/92807)

Kathleen McClellan has worked with whistleblowers from the National Security Agency (NSA), CIA, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security in a variety of forums, including Offices of Inspectors General, the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB), and federal court. Recently, she assisted National Security and Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack in representing former NSA official Thomas Drake on whistleblower matters and successfully litigated a removal case before the MSPB.

She is National Security and Human Rights Counsel for the Government Accountability Project and supports national security and intelligence community whistleblowers, with a particular focus on issues of torture, surveillance, excessive secrecy, and political discrimination. She has appeared on a variety of U.S. and international news programs.

Before joining the Government Accountability Project, McClellan worked with the American Civil Liberties Union’s legislative office on a broad range of civil rights and civil liberties issues, including open government, PATRIOT Act reform, employment discrimination, and surveillance. She took her academic credentials at the University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D.) and St. Mary’s College of Maryland (Bachelor of Arts); contact: kathleenm@whistleblower.org

http://www.whistleblower.org/about/gap-staff/101-kathleen-mcclellan-

Government Accountability Project

Based in Washington, D.C., the Government Accountability Project is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, a public interest group that was founded in 1977; and has become “the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.” In addition to focusing on whistleblower support in its stated program areas, the Project leads campaigns to enact whistleblower protection laws both domestically and internationally; conducts an accredited legal clinic for law students and offers a year-round internship program.

The mission of the Government Accountability Project, according to its website, is to promote accountability of corporations and government “by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.”  http://www.whistleblower.org/about

http://www.whistleblower.org/index.php

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