Washington Has Destroyed Western
Liberty
The Era of Tyranny Has Begun
By
Paul Craig Roberts
April
26, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- A fish rots from the head. In
the Western world rot is accelerating. The rot
in Washington is swiftly spreading to state and
local governments and abroad to the Empire’s
vassal governments.
Washington’s attack on journalism represented by
the illegal arrest of Julian Assange has now
spread to France. The US government’s policy of
sanctions against sovereign countries that do
not follow Washington’s orders has spread to the
state of New York, where the governor has
threatened sanctions against financial
institutions that do business with the National
Rifle Association.
In
France the vassal president Macron has ordered
three journalists, who revealed that Macron’s
government knowingly and intentionally sold arms
to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to be used for the
slaughter of women and children in Yemen, to
report for police questioning. The report proves
that Macron’s government deliberately lied when
it said it was unaware that French weapons were
to be used for attack rather than defense use in
violation of the Arms Trade Treaty of 2014. The
journalists are under investigation by the
French gestapo for “compromising national
defence secrets.”
In
other words, when the French government lies, it
is a violation of national defence secrets to
report it.
The
entire Western world is adopting Washington’s
approach to Assange and criminalizing the
practice of journalism, thus protecting
governments’ criminality. If you reveal a
government crime, as Wikileaks did, you will be
prosecuted by the criminal government for doing
so. It is like permitting a criminal to
prosecute the police and prosecutor who want him
arrested.
With
the First Amendment already under attack and
targeted for elimination by Identity Politics
for permitting “hate speech,” with the 10th
Amendment destroyed by the war criminal Abe
Lincoln, and with habeas corpus and due process
destroyed by the George W. Bush and Obama
regimes, only the Second Amendment still stands,
and it is under attack from New York governor
Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo
revealed that his threat of sanctions against
financial organizations has the purpose of
putting “the NRA out of business. We’re forcing
NRA into financial jeopardy. We won’t stop until
we shut them down.” The tyrant Cuomo knows that
the NRA cannot operate without a bank account
and insurance coverage.
To be
clear, Washington’s success in weaponizing
government against the people has spread
throughout the empire and down into the state
governments of the United States.
When we
add to this the mass spying on citizens made
possible by the digital revolution, we have as
the result the death of liberty.
To any
longer speak of the “Western democracies” is to
mouth a falsehood. There are exactly zero
Western governments that can be held accountable
by the people. There can be no accountable
government without a free press. There is no
economic freedom or freedom of association when
businesses are punished for having business
relationships with organizations that are
targets of government oppression.
The
“war on terror” was a disguise for an attack on
the US Constitution, an attack that has
succeeded. The worst act of treason in history
is the US government’s destruction of the US
Constitution.
The era
of tyranny has begun. Elections cannot stop it.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
==See Also==
Macron pursuing
journalists who exposed French complicity in
possible Saudi war crimes in Yemen
Paul
Craig Roberts: The Veto:
Here is real journalism, a profession
that is no longer practiced by the print and TV
media in the Western world. Indeed, the Western
media are now known as presstitutes, because
they are devoid of all integrity and all
humanity.
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