Hypocrisy 101 by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2021-06-19 at 02:42:43 )

Hypocrisy 101 by Jacob G. Hornberger!

When President Biden predictably began lecturing Russian President Vladimir Putin about human-rights abuses in Russia, President Biden was chagrined when President Putin turned the tables on him by asking about human-rights abuses at the hands of the United States government.

I have often wondered why foreign dictators do not do that more often. President Bidens position is truly a classic case of Hypocrisy 101.

Consider the Pentagons and the Central Intelligence Agencys torture and prison center in Cuba. It could easily fit comfortably within any communist country or other totalitarian regime.

Consider the types of policies that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have implemented at Guantanamo Bay:

1. No trial by jury. Trials, if they are ever held, are by military tribunal. That means a kangaroo trial. The verdict of guilt is already established before the trial even begins.

2. No trials. Yes, that is right - people at Gitmo do not even get a kangaroo trial. There have been people locked up in there for more than a decade. Why have they not been accorded even a kangaroo trial? That is what is called the power of indefinite detention - the power to take a person into custody and keep him incarcerated for the rest of his life.

3. Torture. United States officials torture inmates into confessing their crimes. They also torture witnesses into testifying against people who are accused of crimes. Evidence acquired by torture is admissible at the kangaroo trials (if they are ever held).

4. Hearsay. People who are on trial (if a trial is ever held) are prevented from confronting the witnesses against them and cross-examining them. Instead, witnesses are permitted to recite out-of-court statements made by others as a way to secure convictions.

5. Denial of effective assistance of counsel. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency eavesdrop on communications between inmates and their attorneys.

Now, if I told you that all of these things happen in communist or totalitarian regimes, you would not be surprised. But what is sad is that today no United States of American is surprised that the United States government does these things too. It is all become a normalized and acceptable part of American life, just like assassination has.

Consider assassination. The Fifth Amendment expressly prohibits the federal government from depriving a person of life without due process of law. Due process is a principle requiring formal notice and a trial.

Yet, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have a formalized program of state-sponsored assassinations. That is just legalized murder - the taking of peoples lives without notice and trial.

Not surprisingly, the power to assassinate people is wielded by communist and other totalitarian regimes.

The power of assassination has also been wielded by Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency officials ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state.

Consider Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

All they did was disclose the truth about these types of sordid, dark-side, communist-like, totalitarian-like policies and actions of the United States national-security establishment.

How have United States officials treated Mr. Snowden and Mr. Assange??

The same way that communist and totalitarian regimes treat dissidents.

Maybe the pandemic is something that will cause United States of Americans to do some serious soul-searching as to where we are as a nation, how we got here, and what we need to do to get things back on the right track.

In the meantime, President Biden needs to keep in mind that when he wags his finger at communist or totalitarian regimes regarding human-rights violations, there are three more fingers pointing back at himself.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!