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I find it interesting that NPR chose to air a “report” this morning about the Obama administration’s maneuverings to switch the responsibility for terror suspect interrogation from “intelligence” work done by the CIA to “law enforcement” work done by the FBI -- suggesting this switch would somehow limit the opportunity for abuse -- and that this so-called report failed to mention either the fact that the two agencies have worked together for decades, or that their alliance was codified into law by Ronald Reagan and institutionalized when Bill Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, gave all local law enforcement agencies technologies that had been developed by both (so called, “less-than-lethal” ones, such as microwave guns for “crowd control”). These technologies include PSYOP social extermination tactics through “special surveillance groups” (gangstalkers) and, thanks to George Bush, they can be used by local law enforcement surreptitiously on all citizens without any judicial oversight. NPR’s “report” was odd in another particularly shocking way; it’s constructor seems to have forgotten that it was Senator Edward M. Kennedy who exposed CIA and FBI abuses of American citizens in the 1960s and these agencies’ then-illegal use of PSYOP on many of us; you know, the last liberal to serve in Congress, the one who died not two days ago? What a way to honor the last Congress person who cared enough about the liberty of Americans to actually take on these authoritarian, autocratic institutions, which answer to no one but themselves or our supreme dictator, whoever that may be at any given time. Kennedy’s work may have been ultimately ineffectual since we now know the agencies’ abuses of American citizens continued throughout the 1970s, the 1980s and during the Iraq invasion and occupation, just as the CIA’s terrorism and torture of innocents continued in Iraq and throughout its secret prison system all over the world, but that is entirely our own fault for not following Senator Kennedy’s lead and calling for defunding of all these agencies that routinely subvert the civil and human rights of people around the world, including right here. None of us can do that, of course, unless we’re informed of the necessity for this work by organizations who claim to represent our interests, such as NPR, but I guess since we aren’t it means that NPR really and truly is America’s “Berlin Radio.” Clearly, there is now no line between gray and black radio propaganda on it. But the hope, at least, still lives -- for NPR’s demise.
Ashley Stearns
www.dontfearyourfreedom.blogspot.com
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