The verdict also does not change the fact that anything is a "deep" military or national security "secret" if the industrial-military-surveillance complex says so. It totally fits the logic of the Pentagon's endless war -- which in fact is the same ol' Global War on Terror (GWOT) of 2001-2002, codified in the Pentagon's 2002 Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine (of which the NSA especially covers the cyberspace sphere), all brilliantly renamed by Tom Engelhardt as the Global War on You (GWOY).
It's Paranoia Paradise; an infinite war with enemies lurking everywhere. The Bush-Obama continuum is the real star of this show; under the new war on terror that is not a war on terror -- just as the military coup in Egypt is not a military coup -- the Obama administration has already prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other US administrations combined.
Meanwhile, even Arctic polar bears know Donald Rumsfeld institutionalized torture in Iraq; the Pentagon killed an untold number of civilians in its self-defined "arc of instability"; the Pentagon never admits collateral damage (not to mention collateral murder); and the absolute majority of the Guantanamo prisoners are absolutely innocent.
Even if the US government and the Pentagon threw Manning into a variant of Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, they would never be able to hide their wasteland of war crimes. Assange is confined to an embassy, Snowden to an airport and Manning to a jail cell. But make no mistake; it's the Masters of the Universe who are afraid, very much afraid. Afraid of anyone with a conscience; afraid of you; afraid of the whole wide world.
It's Paranoia Paradise; an infinite war with enemies lurking everywhere. The Bush-Obama continuum is the real star of this show; under the new war on terror that is not a war on terror -- just as the military coup in Egypt is not a military coup -- the Obama administration has already prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other US administrations combined.
Meanwhile, even Arctic polar bears know Donald Rumsfeld institutionalized torture in Iraq; the Pentagon killed an untold number of civilians in its self-defined "arc of instability"; the Pentagon never admits collateral damage (not to mention collateral murder); and the absolute majority of the Guantanamo prisoners are absolutely innocent.
Even if the US government and the Pentagon threw Manning into a variant of Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, they would never be able to hide their wasteland of war crimes. Assange is confined to an embassy, Snowden to an airport and Manning to a jail cell. But make no mistake; it's the Masters of the Universe who are afraid, very much afraid. Afraid of anyone with a conscience; afraid of you; afraid of the whole wide world.
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