Robert Scheer Gave Edward Snowden His Due — in a Few Words that Would Jolt Americans — Provided Anyone Were Paying More than a Branch-Sitting Monkey’s Attention

© 2015 Peter Free

 

16 May 2015

 

 

Monkey chatter dominates American discourse . . .

 

And, without making meaningful protest against fleeing Liberty and Justice, most of us continue to sit idly in our puddling ass juices.

 

Pertinent to this, Robert Scheer observed that:

 

 

[W]hat Edward Snowden did [see here], and the reason he’s one of the most important individuals to emerge in modern American history, is that the courage of this 29-year-old at the time in turning over this massive amount of data made it irrefutable that this government has destroyed the notion of the free market.

 

That’s what is being ignored by the people who call Snowden a traitor, I think. Snowden provided this incredibly invaluable educational service to say there is no private sector, that the private and the government are merged.

 

This is the military-industrial complex with a vengeance that Eisenhower warned about, but now it’s a military-intelligence complex.

 

© 2015 Chris Hedges, Interview: Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges on the Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex (Part 1), The Real News Network (12 May 2015) (quoting journalist Robert Scheer during an interview)

 

 

This totalitarian merger of government and big business is, by definition, fascism

 

Most other definitions, including Wikipedia’s, are too broadly amorphous to be historically and semantically useful.

 

Fascism distinguishes itself from both communism and nationalistic totalitarianism via government’s focused connivance with business titans at the People’s expense.

 

The United States, a nation in which wealth systemically buys political power and influence, has become a fascist state. That leaves little room for meaningful personal freedoms and recognized accomplishments to be distributed with even minimally humane fairness.

 

 

The moral? — Perhaps we should stop disconnectedly cavorting in brown puddles and look up

 

Complacence kills liberty for those who once had it. And it harms those who have yet to achieve it.

 

The inconsequential reformative follow up to Edward Snowden’s revelations about our secretive and increasingly authoritarian American government is a good example of how placidly subservient most Americans have become.

 

One of my medical friends would call our la-la-la attitude, “ass stink.” As with an able person’s disregarded hygiene, ass stink represents corruption of upstanding societal soul.