Paranoid Apoplexy Over The Russkies by Jacob G. Hornberger
(2016-10-21 at 12:21:14 )

Paranoid Apoplexy Over The Russkies by Jacob G. Hornberger

As I watch the paranoid apoplexy that United States officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press are displaying over the hacking of Democratic Party computers and the disclosure of their emails, I am tempted to say that it might all be some sort of karmic justice. But since I am a Christian rather than a Buddhist, I am more tempted to say that it might all be a ratification of the principle, "You get what you sow."

Consider their accusation: that it was the Russkies who did the hacking and the disclosing of those emails. Is there any evidence that they have shown us? None! But heaven help anyone who points that out. He will be labeled a lover and defender of Vladimir Putin as well as an American who hates America, one who dares to doubt the word of the United States "intelligence establishment." Why, they might even insinuate that he is a communist or a communist sympathizer, as they did during the old Cold War.

When it comes to United States national-security state accusations against Russia, Americans are supposed to do what they were expected to do during the previous Cold War: hop to, salute, pledge allegiance, and unconditionally accept the conclusions of the United States "intelligence community." Sort of like when they were expected to blindly support the invasion of Iraq based on those Weapons of Mass Destruction conclusions that were being issued by the national-security establishment.

Do not ask questions. Just defer to their authority. They know what is best for us. They have access to information we do not have. They are just protecting "national security."

Evidence? Who needs any stinking evidence? Everyone knows that the Russkies do these sorts of things. It has to be them. Who else?

Never mind that these people lie from time to time. Recall Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who lied under oath to Congress about the National Security Agencys super-secret illegal surveillance scheme on the American people. (Of course nothing happened to him.) Or Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms lying to Congress about the CIAs super-secret schemes in Chile to effect regime change there. (He was permitted to plead out to a misdemeanor and hailed as hero back at CIA headquarters.)

In fact, the subject of Chile raises the possibility that the paranoid apoplexy that these people are experiencing over Russias supposed efforts to influence U.S. elections might be some sort of psychological payback for all the things that the United States national-security establishment has done to influence elections in other countries.

In the 1960s, one could be forgiven for concluding that the CIA was a super-secret political party in Chile, given the millions of dollars that the CIA spent to support its candidates in Chiles elections. Of course, that was not the worst of it. When the 1970 presidential election failed to go the CIAs way, it bribed members of the Chilean legislature, bribed national food truckers to go on strike, assassinated an innocent man (Rene Schneider, the head of Chiles armed forces), orchestrated a violent military coup that left the democratically elected president of Chile dead, and then supported a regime that raped, tortured, executed, and assassinated thousands of innocent people, including two innocent American, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi.

And they are complaining of a few hacked emails belonging to some United States political hacks?

Do not forget Guatemala. When the Guatemalan people elected Jacobo Arbenz to be their president, United States national-security state officials were outraged because he was a socialist (just like Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, who brought us Social Security and Medicare). So, the CIA did some interfering with that election by instigating a violent military coup in Guatemala, one that sent that nation into a 30-year civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

What about Iran, where the CIA decided that it would do a some influencing in an election in that country by instigating a coup that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of the country? Americans and Iranians are still paying the price for that bit of influencing.

Lest anyone think that those democracy-busting regime changes are ancient history and that the United States national-security establishment has reformed itself, let us not forget the massive amount of weaponry and foreign aid that is poured into the coffers of Egypts brutal military dictatorship, which ousted a democratically elected president it did not like.

If there were not so many innocent people who have suffered death, rape, torture, execution, and assassination from United States governmental interference with the elections of other countries, the rank hypocrisy would be rather humorous.

The simple fact of the matter is that United States officials lack moral standing to complain about any foreign regimes supposedly influencing United States elections.

I would be remiss if I failed to point out one humorous aspect of this karmic or you-get-what-you-sow experience. United States officials just arrested a national-security state official and charged him with stealing United States national-security secret secrets.

What are the secrets he stole? He stole secret codes that enable United States officials to hack into the computers of foreign regimes! How is that for a bit of dark irony? It is just a matter of time before they say that Putin is using the codes that their man stole to hack into the email accounts of Democratic Party hacks.

One final question: Why are U.S. officials and their mainstream press supporters complaining that everyone is reading those Democratic Party emails? As those people say to Americans who have had their emails, Internet visits, and telephone calls monitored by the National Security Agency, if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!