The Pantheon
Posted by Charles Burris on June 9, 2013 06:10 PM
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Sibel Edmonds, Karen Kwiatkowski, Gary Webb, Danny Casolaro, John Stockwell, Daniel Ellsberg, Mike Gravel, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, Whitaker Chambers, Benjamin Gitlow, and Smedley Darlington Butler are heroes and heroines in the pantheon of whistleblowers who put their conscientious dedication to first principles ahead of a pretended allegiance to duplicitous cabals within a criminal state which had betrayed the fiduciary trust and essential liberties of the people. Their courageous stories and historic legacies and examples should be celebrated in every classroom from coast to coast as models of integrity and conviction for our younger generation fixated on narcissistic faux celebrities and sports figures with the nihilistic ethical standards of alley cats and gutter rats.
Re: A Pantheon of Genuine Heroes
Posted by Butler Shaffer on June 9, 2013 06:27 PM
The names listed are all deserving of the recognition you've accorded them. I would add to the list Hugh Thompson, Jr., the helicopter pilot who came upon the My Lai massacre, while in progress, and quickly ended it.
re: The Pantheon
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on June 9, 2013 08:14 PM
All of these heroes stand on the shoulders of Democratic Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Dayton, Ohio, who was deported by the Lincoln administration in 1863. He was treated in this way for saying such things as how any British sovereign over the past 300 years would have lost his head for doing things Lincoln was doing (illegal suspension of Habeas Corpus, mass imprisonment of tens of thousands of political dissenters, shutting down more than 300 opposition newspapers, committing treason by "levying war upon the [Southern] states, the exact definition of treason under Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution, confiscating firearms, intimidating federal judges, rigging Northern elections, waging war without congressional approval, and worse). He also condemned the Lincoln administration on the floor of Congress for waging total war on his own country for the purpose of institutionalizing corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, and nationalized banks and currency to pay for it all.
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