Conscientious whistle blowers striving for more honest world integrity and equality risk their lives for knowledge everyone should know, especially about radically changing climate. Here is my latest essay on this subject.
Mame
BRAVE WHISTLE BLOWER HEROES
copyright
© Helene Smith 2013
"You
cannot know what is right until you know what is wrong."
–Nelson
Mandela (1918–November 5, 2013)
who
brought an end to South African apartheid
Forces railing against knowledge and truth are
totalitarian acts of fearful cowards.
Censorship denying human rights, libraries set on fire (such as Pauline
Christians did to the ancient Great Alexander Library in Egypt protecting
one-of-a-kind scrolls) and protesters confined behind orange mess squelch
freedom of expression.
Religio-racist archaic roots continue to entangle as nations vow
extermination and genocide against one another. A world gone mad has inherent
right to know secrets of any nation hiding illegal, inhumane aggression and militant
climate warfare–what are ongoing destroyers of life, liberty and happiness.
Conscientious whistle blowers cast spotlights on clandestine corporate
governments leaking facts about
leaking radioactive cancerous munitions and their satanic waste, such as
depleted radioactive uranium (DU) causing mental deficiencies and gross birth
deformities. Courageous heroes
risking their lives in unearthing corrupt dealings are to be commended for
their constitutional conscience–nature's ability to confront war catastrophes
in the open, what is breaking down inherent morality and justice in human
minds.
Ronald Lee Ridenhour, former Vietnam War
infantryman turned journalist, exposed the My Lai massacre when 500 Vietnamese
villages and their residents were burned to ashes, including babies and their
puppies. Increasing numbers of
whistle blower heroes for human rights must be protected, not incarcerated. As a
result of Ridenhour's courage, Lt. William Calley and five other warriors were
court-marshialed. One of the
combatants fired a round from an M-16 on a war-torn three-year old trying to
stop his initial wound from bleeding. Another soldier, one who had not sold his
conscience to the devil, shot himself in the foot so he couldn't take part in
the primitive slaughter. Ridenhour
passionately wrote, "Some people . . . will do anything someone in
authority will tell them to.
Government institutions have a reflective reaction to exposure of
internal corruption and wrongdoing.
Their first response is to lie, conceal and cover up."
This
Whistle blower is honored by the Ron Ridenhour Foundation through its Prizes
that keep alive the memory of his great service–courage in a long letter
describing vivid details how civilians inhabitants within boundaries of their
homes, coded as "Pinkville," died in streams of blood. Most of these
barbaric war atrocities are never smoked out and reported. Winston Churchill said, "A country
without a conscience is a country without a soul, and a country without a soul
is a country that will not survive."
Daniel Ellsberg who worked for the Department of Defense, originally the War Department, exposed the Pentagon Papers in 1971. At that time he was pelted with derogatory names, such as traitor and terrorist. In his defense of later whistleblowers, he said succinctly. "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric what was made about me, would be used against Julian Assange and Bradly Manning. But they are no more terrorists than I am."
Cyber expert Aaron Swartze fought against files and journals not freely available to the public–locked up by profit-making corporative power, what's not constitutional and defies freedom of conversation and journalism. Constraining threats targeted against whistle blowers are mounting ever since 2001 when the Patriot Act was passed to stifle and crush free thought through zealot nationalism that is approaching fascism. Federal threat of 35 years imprisonment and a $1 million fine for revealing invaluable information for public access precipitated Swartze's suicide in 2013. His tragic death awakened reality, the need to expose clandestine political chicanery hiding out under malicious espionage called "collateral damage"–people killing. International Law prohibits rural battlefields from taking place on modern city streets where children play and noncombatants work and shop, This law and others as well prohibit wars from killing children, especially sanctions against these who are harmed the most.
Daniel Ellsberg who worked for the Department of Defense, originally the War Department, exposed the Pentagon Papers in 1971. At that time he was pelted with derogatory names, such as traitor and terrorist. In his defense of later whistleblowers, he said succinctly. "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric what was made about me, would be used against Julian Assange and Bradly Manning. But they are no more terrorists than I am."
Cyber expert Aaron Swartze fought against files and journals not freely available to the public–locked up by profit-making corporative power, what's not constitutional and defies freedom of conversation and journalism. Constraining threats targeted against whistle blowers are mounting ever since 2001 when the Patriot Act was passed to stifle and crush free thought through zealot nationalism that is approaching fascism. Federal threat of 35 years imprisonment and a $1 million fine for revealing invaluable information for public access precipitated Swartze's suicide in 2013. His tragic death awakened reality, the need to expose clandestine political chicanery hiding out under malicious espionage called "collateral damage"–people killing. International Law prohibits rural battlefields from taking place on modern city streets where children play and noncombatants work and shop, This law and others as well prohibit wars from killing children, especially sanctions against these who are harmed the most.
Jeremy
Scahill is the author of Blackwater, an international best seller. He also wrote the Rise of World's
Most powerful Mercenary Army, and Dirty Wars: The World on a
Battlefield,
a New York Times
bestseller. He is twice-time
winner of the George Polk Book Award, with the Puffin Foundation and a member
of the Fellow Nation Institute.
Scahill has a national security position with The Nation magazine. He is also a recipient of the Donald
Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literary Prize at Yale University. In Dirty Wars he exposed
candid American secret aggression and unmanned drone vehicles, all recorded
while Scahill was reporting from Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia and former
Yugoslavia. A documentary is applauded by Democracy Now! Free Speech with Amy
Goodman and Juan Gonzales, as well as the Thom Hartmann program. Scahill produced and was featured in
the film since he visited the targeted sites and talked with non-combatant
victims terrorized with death and violence, even during a wedding–all very dangerous
journeys.
Whistle-blower,
Julian Assange, is founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeak. He is now under
protective asylum. In 2009 he was the recipient of Amnesty International UK
Media Award for exposure of extradition assassination in Kenya. In accepting his award, this Australian
publisher and journalist wrote, "It is a refueling of courage and strength
of Kenyan civil society that the injustice was documented." Crowds internationally are now
shouting, "Free Assange."
Edward
Snowden received the Sam Adams Award in 1913 for disclosing secretive mass
surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA). He was also honored by Glasgow
Scotland's University students–one hundred percent who elected him their rector
for three years. This whistle blower who risked his life along with other conscientious
people in speaking out with the truth was also nominated for the Nobel Peace
Laureate for 2014. What he
contributed is invaluable–a great effort for a more stable and peaceful Earth,
capitalized for respect. He has
forced a new debate over global security and privacy. Snowden's report
uncovered the fact that the US spied on the Copenhagen, Denmark summit talks
involving 192 nations discussing drastic weather change and its causes. Although the US has a reputation for
debunking climate change as not man-made–despite alarming findings by world
scientists on how wars enormously increase carbon above normal measures–it is a
known fact that international and civil wars are the largest culprits of
gasoline and petroleum products worldwide, with advanced nations now charging
huge taxes for the CO2 polluting industrial military boot print. We already
know that black gun powder (a mixture of charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur) will
cause rain after a battle. War is
the most lethal serial killer and the largest carbon polluter in the world.
Climate change through warfare has
lifted its ugly head when the US caused the monsoon season to last longer
during the Vietnam War (1959-1975) on the Ho Chi Minh trail to prevent munitions
supplies from getting through lines of battle from the opposition. The army seeded clouds with chemicals
to keep the torrent of rain lasting much longer than usual. When the US bombarded Laos on the Ho
Chi Minh trail running through Laos–the longest bombed nation in world history
with millions of cluster bomblets–teams of women are still detonating the duds
and continue to lose their lives, along with their curious children picking up
the munitions after the war ended.
Edward
Snowden is concerned over world welfare.
We the people all paid dearly through our national treasury that
taxpayers' funds–the exorbitant price of child-deforming munitions–unnecessary,
futile and obsolete, with a new-age cold war of high-frequency radio waves and
laser beams through man-made manipulated climate change. Today even
conventional lethal chemical, radioactive weapons are illegal due to them being
weapons of massive devastation. These toadstool clouds of explosions and
nuclear supersonic and warhead missiles cause cancerous fallout and emissions
that are accumulative–the most explosive poisonous greenhouse gases that are
destroying Earth's ecological system and all forms of life. But instead the
world is still seething with barbaric slaughter ever since the entrance of man
on this planet. The reckless,
subject- to-error military accidentally and on purpose dropped at least seven
hydrogen bombs in the ocean and on Spain.
So how can we trust the brass that betray us with lethal climate change
warfare?
Climate
change has now escalated to the 1993 HAARP military program in
Alaska–High-Frequency Auroral
Research that alter global weather through Northern Lights (Aurora
Borealis) and involves laser beams that deeply disturbs the Earth with
vibrations, maybe even strong enough to affect fault lines and tectonic plates,
rock foundations of continents and islands. So whose fault is it?–as global
nature gets out of control with freak snowstorms and increased
earthquakes? It was Edward Teller
who invented the backyard bomb. If it had been manufactured it would be
impossible to transport due to burden of weight from multi-kilotons of man-made
plutonium. But if didn't have to
be moved. His concept was to just
light it and the entire Earth would incinerate–friends and foes alike!
Peter Seller's mad Dr. Strangelove, referring to
Teller, comes to mind. This
inventor of the hydrogen bomb with Stanislaw Ulam, hoodwinked one president
after another into "Star War" panic. It's the asteroids we must fight
by teaming with other nations for a common shield to protect all of us. We must research and put our scientists
to work in preventing the end of Earth, instead of killing our only sustenance
as we are dumped out with the bath water.
Although the "haarpers" deny conspiracy theories, in a real
democracy sunshine needs to open debate to discuss what is really going on
regarding world militarises tampering with global weather. We already know that illicit chemical,
radioactive nuclear child-deforming munitions can trigger earthquakes that in
turn can erupt into flaming volcanoes that lead to tsunamis.
Snowden's
main support in his exposures of the NSA is Glenn Greenwald who instrumentally
got word out about corporate government secrets negatively affecting the
unsuspecting world at large.
Greenwald and other journalists
Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras and Barton Gellman won the Polk Award for their
excellent and extensive overage of
Snowden's case.
Army
soldier Bradly Manning leaked secret corporate government documents. This
whistle blower received the Sam (A) Adams Integrity Prize (SAAII) for
intelligence and ethics in 2014.
Manning was awarded for revealing essential information about the toll
and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq–human rights abuses by the United
States and its allies.
It
is interesting that all the above whistle-blowers and their prestigious awards
revealed important issues about human rights. The fact that whistle blowers
expose injustice and inequality in corporate governments, is an indication that
leaks are quintessential for Earth's people to know, in particular military
bases leaking lethal chemical, radioactive baby deforming and aborting
munitions "in the name of
God." Any
aggressive nation that invades, attacks and occupies a foreign country is a
terrorist and youth-murderer under the cloak of war, what President Dwight D.
Eisenhower would agree. Nation's powerful militarises putting young people in
harm's way through battlefield alters of sacrifices are terrorists as the
officials, out of harm's way, puff up in arrogance. It has been suggested by many people that ugly war leaders who
want to confront the world voices of the Earth steadily rising up to end
endless wars, should be the ones who fight in wars. Those who have never experienced the carnage of war have no
conception of what military-trained youths have to endure, many who are killed
or maimed and often commit suicide from seeing all the damage, even drone
operators viewing the same "blood and guts" on cold computer screens.
Whistle blowers
are the real heroes. Through their own power and strength they risk danger in
order to make a better world where the primary law is–"Don't do unto
others what you don't want others to do to you. This is the wisdom of the world's greatest prophets, often
viewed as deities, who by the way are all people of dark complexion from their
ancestors having lived near the equator for centuries of time and sunshine.
