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Does The CIA Secure America, Or Is It A Threat To Liberty
I have film…
By de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
Published June 4, 2015
Ron Paul: “Before
applauding the Freedom Act, address the CIA shadow Government”
With the temporary cancellation of the so-called “Patriot
Act” One might think… Finally, a move
towards freedom and the restoration of rights…well, not quite so fast my
friend. Let’s read between the lines and
look up and down the road for a minute.
Having a background in the military and in an Army unit
assigned to the CIA, I think that I can, in all good conscience criticize the
Central Interagency Agency, and the military for that matter. Or rather what
the both of them have become. Knowing
what I know, I have to ask the Question: Have they become just a secret arm of
tyranny?
The CIA, the
Military and Jade Helm 15.
The passage
of the USA FREEDOM Act and the
expiration of parts of the PATRIOT Act are being hailed as monumental steps in
ending unwarranted surveillance, but – signed
into law by President Obama – it is largely a weak half measure aimed at giving the
appearance of restored trust in government.
Touted as a step in the right direction to American Freedom
it is just another Sham of disinformation and lies. “Yesterday
the Senate passed and President Obama signed into law the USA Freedom
Act, a piece of legislation meant to curb the government's ability to conduct
widespread surveillance.”
The
American Library Association's executive director Emily Sheketoff wrote in a
statement to Business Insider that the bill's passage was "a milestone," going on to explain that it's the
"first meaningful reform of our
surveillance law in almost 15 years."
Similarly, the Mozilla
Corporation's senior vice president of business and legal affairs Denelle
Dixon-Thayer described it as "a
significant first step to restore trust online, and a foundation for further
needed reform."
The Electronic
Frontier Foundation noted the
limited hangout and hunger for actual reform: In the wake of the damning evidence of surveillance abuses disclosed by Edward Snowden, (who even though the “Whistle
Blowers Protection Act protects Snowden from prosecution, the government is out for his blood.) As a
result of Snowden’s unleashing of the truth, Congress had an opportunity to
champion comprehensive surveillance reform and undertake a thorough
investigation, like it did with the Church Committee. Congress could have tried
to completely end mass surveillance and taken numerous other steps to rein in
the NSA and FBI. But instead this bill was the result of compromise and appeasement…
Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul went
much further, decrying the fact that laws to curb mass surveillance are rather
meaningless when dealing with lawless, rogue unaccountable parts of the shadow
government. “Criminals don't follow the laws,
and regardless, there is no one who has the CIA, the NSA or a dozen other
intelligence agencies on a leash.”
Ron
Paul took the occasion in the Liberty Report (watch the video) to delve into the problems with the CIA. While some may be cheering the expiration of the Patriot Act – however
temporary it may be – former presidential candidate Ron Paul notes: “before Americans applaud a
minor step toward transparency, they should recognize the corrosive nature of
the CIA, a secret government operating far above the law.”
It's
a sobering reminder, Ron Paul points out that US intelligence organizations
have always – and will continue – to operate outside the law.
"They are a secret
government," Paul says of the CIA. "Way
out of control."
"In a true republic, there
is no place for an organization like the CIA," Dr. Paul says, quoting former
FBI agent Dan Smoot. "I think
he's closer to the truth than a lot of what's going
on today."
As Paul notes, the CIA is out of reach from oversight or
directions from the President or anyone else in Washington:
And according to Paul, [the CIA
is] a covert army that doesn't answer to Congress, the Supreme Court, or even
the president.
With that extreme unaccountability has come many misdeeds.
The CIA's worldwide programs to sponsor coups, revolutions,
regime change and assassinations have become notorious, and the actions of this
secretive government vessel knows no bounds.
"There are certainly a lot of theories
about the CIA being involved in even domestic assassinations, and
they certainly are now involved in presidential directed
assassinations," Paul says.
"That, to me, was the
most frightening experience in Washington, there were black budgets. We never knew
exactly how much money was spent," Paul says.
Those secret budgets have
allowed the CIA to carry out some pretty shady practices
over the years. Chiefly, assassinations.
"The US
has covertly and overtly influenced elections overseas a number
of times," McAdams says. "It's a
very open secret that the CIA infiltrates monitoring organizations
like the OSCE with their personnel."
THE BOTTOM LINE: No
doubt the flags will wave during the Fourth of July and every other patriotic occasion,
and politicians will celebrate their role in reigning in the mass surveillance
programs… but in truth, we are no freer now, and never will be until the shadow
government – manifest in the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the alphabet soup
media propaganda outlets – is seen for what they really have become and are dealt
with.
While I don’t totally agree with Libertarian extremist Ron
Paul who says that “In a true republic, there is no place for an organization like the
CIA," It may however be too much of a loose cannon with no oversight at all.
Few besides me know more about the good and the security
that the CIA and most of all, the U.S. Military have provided Americans
throughout our history. But never
before have Americans been so uniformed about the truth that actually goes on
behind the curtain of government than today. The touted transparency in reality is truly
nonexistent. In some cases the shroud of secrecy should be applied in the name
of national security, but when legitimist secrets are leaked again touting transparency,
and truth that should be known by every American is marked classified, or disinformation
is in fact used in its place, then; “Houston we have a problem,” because this
my friend is exactly what is going on in one way or the other, in not only the
U.S. but in all the Western Nations.
If nothing else, the ignorance of history and the lack of
the proper application thereof has blindly led us into the full circle of
deception. As a result we have become
complacent, apathetic and enablers in the destruction of our own God given
American liberty. We are squandering the
inheritance that our Forefathers left us.
Only you my friend, can stop the ongoing inevitable
despotism of democracy, and restore America to the ‘Free Constitutional Representative Republic’ it once was.
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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