Edited excerpt, commentary by Carolyn Bennett
The U.S. government for the longest time has been using electronic hacking
measures to infiltrate the personal, professional, business and international
affairs of individual and nations ─ from the United States to Europe to Asia to Africa;
and that is only as much as we know today.
Under the regime holding unchecked power in Washington:
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Anybody is subject to attack. Anyone can be a victim. Anybody
can be a convenient “terrorist”; anybody an “enemy” ─ including peoples and
nations traditionally believed to be actual friends of the United States of
America.
Corrupt, inept politics makes expedient friends and expedient
enemies. Such leadership of a single nation ─ let alone a presumptive or self-proclaimed
leader of the world, even of the Western world ─ is worst than outrageous. In
my view, it is criminal and, in order to end the lawlessness and the insidious
breakdown of human rights conventions, these leaders must be called to account
before an independent court of justice.
Some leaders in Europe seem also to be outraged, as
indicated by today’s article in Spiegel
Online: “‘No Longer in the Cold War’ ─ (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel
Infuriated by U.S. Spying”
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| Dr. Angela Merkel Chancellor, Germany |
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel (through her representative):
‘We are no longer in the Cold War’ [Merkel
had already communicated her displeasure to the U.S]….
‘The monitoring of friends … is
unacceptable [and] can’t be tolerated.…
‘Trust has to be the basis of our
cooperation.… When it comes to this affair, trust has to be re-established.’
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| Chancellor Angela Merkel |
German Economy Minister Philipp
Rösler (vice chancellor to Merkel):
‘The energetic collection of data [by]
… our partners in [the] European [Union] and abroad is outrageous.
‘We have understanding for
combating terrorism’ … but not for ‘aimless, indiscriminate and unrestrained
spying on citizens.’
German Consumer Affairs Minister
Ilse Aigner:
‘We need better protection of
private data; not more state surveillance. Otherwise, a free trade agreement
makes no sense.’
European Parliament President Martin
Schulz
‘As a European and a representative
of a European institution, I feel treated like the representative of the enemy.
‘Is this the basis for a constructive
relationship ...? I think not.’
European Commission President José
Manuel Barroso (his representative)
‘We expect rapid clarification from
our American partners. … Of course we are worried because, if the allegations
are true, it would create a great deal of unrest.’
EU diplomats with involvement of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and in consultative agreement with EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton (statement from the Foreign Ministry in Berlin):
‘…Such activity among partners and
friends is unacceptable.’
President François Hollande (France):
‘We cannot accept this kind of
behavior between partners and allies. …We ask that this stop immediately. [U.S.
surveillance and spying activities also targeted Paris]
President Giorgio Napolitano (Italy):
‘This is a touchy issue that
requires satisfactory answers.’
U.S. carnage on human rights
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─ from Seoul to Damascus, Tripoli to Paris, Islamabad to
Berlin; and one after another but really the same ole regime keeps up a mantra to the people: “They” just don’t like us because we’re so wonderful, with our “freedoms”
and all. Well, you can believe this if you choose or you can vote them out or recall them or haul the whole lot of them before an independent tribunal (or do all of these).
Politics and government officials as rotten as these, as
inept, as arrogant can be neither retrofitted nor rehabilitated. In my opinion, they must be uprooted,
all of them, without exception or fear or favor. Americans’ romantic affair with
partisans and tribes, mere color and political and or ideological spectrum must be ended; or this nation will come undone, entirely.
Instead of progressing, it will continue its downward spiral, its regress, its
BREAKDOWN.
Source
“‘No Longer in the Cold War’ ─ Merkel Infuriated by U.S.
Spying,” July 1, 2013 [© SPIEGEL ONLINE 2013 All Rights Reserved
Reproduction only allowed with the permission of SPIEGELnet GmbH],
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-furious-at-us-spying-and-eu-to-check-offices-for-bugs-a-908859.html
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