The Central Intelligence Agency Has Stultified American Consciences by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2021-10-05 at 23:19:45 )

The Central Intelligence Agency Has Stultified American Consciences by Jacob G. Hornberger!

One of the worst consequences of converting the federal government to a national-security state has been the stultification or warping of the consciences of the United States of American people.

With unwavering allegiance to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the National Security Agency, all too many United States of Americans have sacrificed their sense of right and wrong at the altar of "national security," the two-word term that has become the most important term in the political lexicon of the American people.

The best example of this phenomenon is the CIAs power of assassination.

Most United States of Americans have come to passively accept this power, with nary a thought as to the victims against whom it is carried out and under what what circumstances it is carried out.

Consider recent revelations that the CIA was planning to assassinate Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, for disclosing dark-side secrets of the United States deep state to to the world.

That is why United States officials have pursued him with a vengeance - not because he lied about the Pentagons and the CIAs dark-side activities but rather because he disclosed the truth about them.

That is why they were seeking to murder him - to silence him, to punish him, and to send a message to other potential disclosers of dark-side secrets of the national-security establishment.

But anyone with a conscience that is operating would easily see that assassinating Julian Assange would be just plain murder. And at the risk of belaboring the obvious, the murder of an innocent person is just plain evil.

Yet, the reaction to all this from the mainstream press has been one great big collective yawn. No big deal.

It is just another state-sponsored assassination intended to protect "national security."

If United States national-security state officials have decided that Mr. Assange needs to be taken out, then that is just the way it is.

That is why we have a CIA, after all.

We have to defer to its judgment, even if it means sacrificing our consciences in the process. After all, that is its job - to protect "national security."

By the way, there is virtually no doubt that if they could get away with assassinating Edward Snowden for disclosing the truth about National Security Agency dark-side activity, they would murder him too.

The probable reason they have not assassinated Mr. Snowden is because they have not figured out a way to get the assassins out of Russia.

When the federal government was converted to a national-security state after World War II, the United States of American people made an implicit bargain with the devil.

The bargain empowered the national-security establishment to engage in dark-side activity, including assassination. But another part of the bargain was that officials would keep their dark-side activity secret from the American people so that people would not have to deal with their consciences over a governmental entity that was assassinating people.

Mr. Assanges and Mr. Snowdens great "crime" was in violating that pact. By bringing dark-side activity to the attention of the American people, they ran the risk that peoples consciences might start operating.

So far, there appears to be no risk of that happening.

Consider, for example, the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani. That was just plain murder. Iran and the United States are not at war with each other. Sure, we are told that Iran is a "rival," an "enemy," an "opponent," or an "adversary," but does that morally entitle United States officials to murder Iranian officials? It does not, just as it does not entitle Iranian officials to murder United States officials.

Again, however, the reaction among the mainstream press to the assassination of General Suleimani was one great big collective yawn.

Revealingly, there was also no moral outrage expressed among church ministers across the United States of America. If the Pentagon and the CIA deemed it necessary to assassinate General Suleiman, that is all we need to know.

To get the United States of America back on the right track, what we need is a moral awakening, one that entails the operation of conscience.

If that day were to come, there is no doubt that the United States of American people would cast the Central Intelligence Agency into the dustbin of history, where all evil agencies belong.

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