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In reply to the discussion: Robert Scheer: Why I Will Never Support Hillary Clinton for President [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)17. Robert Scheer is TOPS. Telling truth about Bush & Iraq got him fired from LA Times.
Tick me off. So, the guy started his own web portal, TruthDig.com, which is BETTER than the the LA Times:
The Good Germans in Government
Posted on Jun 25, 2013
By Robert Scheer
What a disgrace. The U.S. government, cheered on by much of the media, launches an international manhunt to capture a young American whose crime is that he dared challenge the excess of state power. Read the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and tell me that Edward Snowden is not a hero in the mold of those who founded this republic. Check out the Nuremberg war crime trials and ponder our current contempt for the importance of individual conscience as a civic obligation.
Yes, Snowden has admitted that he violated the terms of his employment at Booz Allen Hamilton, which has the power to grant security clearances as well as profiting mightily from spying on the American taxpayers who pay to be spied on without ever being told that is where their tax dollars are going. Snowden violated the law in the same way that Daniel Ellsberg did when, as a RAND Corporation employee, he leaked the damning Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War that the taxpayers had paid for but were not allowed to read.
In both instances, violating a government order was mandated by the principle that the United States trumpeted before the world in the Nuremberg war crime trials of German officers and officials. As Principle IV of what came to be known as the Nuremberg Code states: The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
That is a heavy obligation, and the question we should be asking is not why do folks like Ellsberg, Snowden and Bradley Manning do the right thing, but rather why arent we bringing charges against the many others with access to such damning data of government malfeasance who remain silent? ..................(more)
CONTINUED...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_good_germans_in_government_20130625/
Oh. And taking the place of a guy who told the truth about Bush and Iraq, the LA Times hired lifelong GOP stooge Jonah Goldberg.
The Good Germans in Government
Posted on Jun 25, 2013
By Robert Scheer
What a disgrace. The U.S. government, cheered on by much of the media, launches an international manhunt to capture a young American whose crime is that he dared challenge the excess of state power. Read the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and tell me that Edward Snowden is not a hero in the mold of those who founded this republic. Check out the Nuremberg war crime trials and ponder our current contempt for the importance of individual conscience as a civic obligation.
Yes, Snowden has admitted that he violated the terms of his employment at Booz Allen Hamilton, which has the power to grant security clearances as well as profiting mightily from spying on the American taxpayers who pay to be spied on without ever being told that is where their tax dollars are going. Snowden violated the law in the same way that Daniel Ellsberg did when, as a RAND Corporation employee, he leaked the damning Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War that the taxpayers had paid for but were not allowed to read.
In both instances, violating a government order was mandated by the principle that the United States trumpeted before the world in the Nuremberg war crime trials of German officers and officials. As Principle IV of what came to be known as the Nuremberg Code states: The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
That is a heavy obligation, and the question we should be asking is not why do folks like Ellsberg, Snowden and Bradley Manning do the right thing, but rather why arent we bringing charges against the many others with access to such damning data of government malfeasance who remain silent? ..................(more)
CONTINUED...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_good_germans_in_government_20130625/
Oh. And taking the place of a guy who told the truth about Bush and Iraq, the LA Times hired lifelong GOP stooge Jonah Goldberg.
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Robert Scheer: Why I Will Never Support Hillary Clinton for President [View all]
BernieforPres2016
Feb 2016
OP
"A center of cynicism and opportunism and really quite reckless." And that's putting it politely.
Karmadillo
Feb 2016
#2
I remember Robert Scheer from his Ramparts days and his run for congress. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2016
#6
They really did harm so many hungry kids, to this day. & Rubin...criminy. What a nightmare.
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#8
Bob Rubin is the personification of the Wall Street/government revolving door
BernieforPres2016
Feb 2016
#16
Robert Scheer is TOPS. Telling truth about Bush & Iraq got him fired from LA Times.
Octafish
Feb 2016
#17