Marching to the "Russians Did It" anthem

© 2016 Peter Free

 

12 December 2016

 

 

If we needed proof that we are aggressively gullible sheep, this should do it

 

The CIA wants us to believe that Russians hacked the 2016 election.

 

Vladimir Putin's Gang did this (we are told) to influence the presidential election's outcome.

 

The Washington Post and New York Times — whom we can infer are now competing with each other to see which can be the more enslaved Government Propagandist — arguably bought this proof-lacking assertion wholesale.

 

 

This ball of outhouse deposits is rolling downhill, gathering steam

 

It seems that "everyone" — do a Google search — is reporting the (almost certainly bogusly overblown) story as if it were proven fact.

 

All without a shred of proof.

 

Because, you know, for national security reasons "we" cannot tell the Rabble how it is that we know all this stuff.

 

Secrecy hides all sorts of government evil.

 

 

Glenn Greenwald's take mirrors mine

 

He wrote that:

 

 

There is still no such evidence for any of these claims. What we have instead are assertions, disseminated by anonymous people, completely unaccompanied by any evidence, let alone proof.

 

To begin with, CIA officials are professional, systematic liars; they lie constantly, by design, and with great skill, and have for many decades, as have intelligence officials in other agencies.

 

Wars have started over far less serious claims than this one.

 

[R]ecall that the FBI, just weeks ago, was shoveling anonymous claims to the New York Times that had the opposite goal.

 

© 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence, The Intercept (10 December 2016) (excerpts)

 

 

From my elderly person's perspective

 

American government has a long history of lying.

 

Government peddles baseless concoctions, so as to refocus public domestic dissatisfaction on foreign threats that either do not exist or are grossly exaggerated.

 

The motive for this duplicity is always self-serving. Just follow money, power or prestige.

 

 

The moral? — Being treated as easily duped — should not sit well with patriotic, independently minded Americans

 

Yet, we regularly fall prey to being easily played by people, whose interests are not our own.

 

Mr. Greenwald is right to think that another strategically unnecessary war may be coming. And the predictable further erosion of civil rights that will accompany it.