Alternative Voices Under Attack

Since the tragedy of 9/11 the United States government continues to insist on the right to examine your every e-mail, credit card transaction, banking transaction, phone call, and every Internet website you visit, every point-and-click of your mouse. They even track your every move on your cell phone, using GPS technology that was initially developed for tracking and guiding nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to their targets inside the former Soviet Union. All this techno-surveillance of the citizenry is a dazzling contradiction of everything that Americans have always fought, killed, and died for — everything that Americans have always preached to the whole world, especially those totalitarian social engineers ruling the Soviets that the cruise missiles were aimed at.

Now this same United States government and their attachés inside mainstream media are crying sour grapes because a Rolling Stone journalist spied out and outed an officer of the United States. Benjamin Franklin, on the other hand, a leading opponent of authoritarianism and lightning rod for revolution, would most certainly have insisted on having it the other way around: the people of a republic are the government and it is they who should be keeping an eye on their servants — not the officers keeping an eye on them.

In the following clip investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says that Rolling Stone journalist Hastings was simply doing what all true journalists need to do.
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