Greetings and welcome back to the asylum. Last week, we spoke about how the establishment has placed itself essentially above the law, doing things any normal person would spend a lot of time in jail for. With this shift in American governance has also come a major shift in the way whistleblowers are treated. It doesn’t really matter if the whistle blown is against government or corporate malfeasance. The reaction and criminalization of the whistleblower in modern times is the same. Then, the media uses the prosecution of the whistleblower as cover to overlook the actual crimes being reported.
America has a long and storied history of whistleblowers, and over the years there have been several laws passed to protect them. To be clear, whistleblowers are people who become aware of malfeasance in government or industry and accept great personal risk, with little possibility of reward, to make those bad actions and bad actors known, so that justice and fairness can be restored. In general, these people are heroes and should be celebrated and lauded. Historically, that has been the case, but even with laws in place to “protect” them, it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. To start, I will outline an incomplete history of whistleblowers in America past and present.
Prior to the War for Independence in 1773, non-other than Benjamin Franklin exposed letters from the Governor of Massachusetts proving that he had mislead parliament into a military build up in the New World, resulting the Governor being discharged and exiled (here).
In 1777, the first recorded case of whistleblowing in American history was when Samuel Shaw and Richard Marven circulated a petition, signed by a total of 10 naval officers, outlining the crimes and failings of Commodore Esek Hopkins, who was the first Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, and then sent it to the Continental Congress. These men did this knowing that it might result in persecution or prosecution for treason or sedition. Initially, the men were charged and arrested (after Hopkins was relieved), but the Continental Congress at that time passed the first law to protect whistleblowers and the charges ultimately went nowhere (here and here).
In more recent times, Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (recipient of two Medals of Honor) (here) exposed the fraud, waste, and abuse that was already forming in the military industrial complex in his 1935 book War Is A Racket, where he outlined the misallocation and waste of funds in support of favored businesses during WWI (here). He then testified before congress in 1935 about wealthy businessmen who hatched a plot to overthrow the government (here), again acting as a whistleblower.
In 1969, former helicopter gunner Ron Ridenhour notifies congress and the pentagon to the events of the My Lai massacre, outlining misconduct including the torture, sexual abuse, mutilation, and mass murder of hundreds of unarmed civilians (here). This resulted in an investigation and criminal charges, even if the final outcome was unsatisfactory (here).
Then, in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked what would become known as the Pentagon Papers showing that several administrations and the Pentagon had directly lied to Congress and the public about their intentions and actions in Vietnam. This resulted in the landmark Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. United States where it was ruled that the First Amendment gave the Times the right to publish classified information without fear of government reprisal (here). The ruling did allow some claims of prior restraint, but specifically said they required congressional oversight and could not be vague appeals to national security (We will come back to this). The same year, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein received a tip from an anonymous source “Deep Throat”. That exposed ties between the break-in at the Watergate Hotel and the White House. That eventually leads to President Nixon’s resignation. It was later revealed (2005) that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI at the time.
Peter Buxtun, an employee of the United States Public Health Service, blew the whistle in 1972 exposing a 40 year long “experiment” originally titled “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” later called “USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee” and currently known as “The Tuskegee Experiment”, where for 40 years Black men were intentionally infected with syphilis and lied to so they remained untreated, even after effective treatment with antibiotics was available, watching as the illness spread throughout the community and across generations. As a result, the study was investigated and stopped. Ultimately, the victims and their families received healthcare, damages, and a formal apology from President Clinton (here).
All of these whistleblowers told the truth at risk to themselves and affected positive change. They exposed wrongdoing by government officials and agencies, making the American people more free and better informed. These whistleblowers largely received the support of the free press, and while some did face persecution and prosecution, all were eventually cleared. This brings us to more modern times where the world is flipped upside down and nearly everything the government does is a secret not to protect America from enemies, but to hide it from the American people. We are in an age where the government has usurped the Constitution and demands, without cause or warrant, every scrap of information about our lives. The Central Bank Digital Currency will be the final nail in the coffin of visibility and control over our lives.
In the most recent history, we have Bradly (Chelsea) Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange. While Julian Assange isn’t a whistleblower per se, he and his platform Wikileaks are absolutely a news outlet, if not mainstream. The best part of Wikileaks is that it has never printed a lie in its entire history. Bradly Manning found evidence of war crimes, malfeasance, and other despicable acts by the American Government and military both in Iraq and Afghanistan. He tried to take that information through proper channels, but they knew and didn’t care. So he, aware that the mainstream media was captive propaganda by the early 2000s, released his information to Wikileaks and it was published (here). As a result, Manning was tortured in solitary for years, in violation of law and the constitution (here). The facts revealed should shock and shame all Americans by what is being done in their name and on their dime. Unfortunately, the media chose to largely discount the revelations and focus on demonizing Manning.
This also started the United States’ shameful persecution of Julian Assange for publishing the information and letting the world know what was really happening. While he should have been protected by various Supreme Court rulings, not the least of them being New York Times Co. v. United States, he wasn’t and the American Government used its power to get criminal cases that had already been investigated and discarded reopened as pretense to extradite Julian (here). This resulted in Julian being confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for nearly seven years. Since then, he has been held by the English authorities (here) because he told truth the world needed to hear. He didn’t steal anything or engage in any criminal activity. He just published information as provided to him, like any other news outlet. Yet, he is still persecuted for exposing government lies and abuses of power (here and here).
This brings us to Edward Snowden, perhaps the greatest hero in modern American history. Edward sacrificed everything and fled to exile to let the American people know the depths of their governments disregard for the Constitution. On June 6, 2013, the American public learned that without warrant, probable cause, or any justification, the government was violating the 4th amendment, 5th amendment, and 1st amendments, as if they didn’t exist. That is the day we discovered the government was recording every phone call, text message, email, web search, and GPS ping for every person in the country in mass a carte blanche. Snowden exposed how the government had back doors into phones that allows them to access the cameras, microphones, and GPS information, even when the device is turned “off”. He further exposed how the NSA used cloned social media sites and online games as back doors to install spying software on computers and phones. Edward Snowden exposed many more violations of the Constitution, and domestic and international law. (here). While Edward did break the law, he did so to expose laws being broken and should have been protected by the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (here and here). This act is supposed to protect even the disclosure of classified information that exposes crimes being committed by individuals or agencies in the government. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case because to obey the law and right these wrongs would diminish the power of the establishment and we cannot have that.
In the establishments zeal for control and desire to have a general population that is ignorant and just accepts what they are told, we have seen some dramatic shifts recently, with the sudden ouster of James O’Keefe from Project Veritas (an organization he founded) just as he was doing Yeomans work in exposing the dangers of mRNA, further gain of function research by big pharmaceutical companies, and probably more damning, that the Federal Government knows about and facilitates human trafficking of immigrant minors at the southern border (here, here, and here). All the while, they still won’t release Epstein’s client list. Not directly related, but curious. Please note, while these reports are still on the web, since James has left, Veritas has buried them.
Lastly, this brings us to the ouster of Tucker Carlson from FOX, a move that seems nearly suicidal for the company, being as he had the most watched news and commentary program on any cable news channel. This is because he was a voice of truth, cutting through the establishment’s lies and leading people to think for themselves regardless of what “side” of the establishment the narrative originated from. It seems at least to one former Army psychological warfare officer, Scott Bennett, Tucker was released because of the establishment’s desire to maintain an “uninformed semi lobotomized quasi retarded population.” (here). Sadly, I believe it, when you look just a little and see how justice has been manipulated and corrupted in our country as the last vestiges of our constitutional republic are laid aside. It is getting harder and harder to have any question that we have enemies in the domestic establishment working with The United Nations and World Economic Forum to bring about Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset. Two days after his release from Fox, Tucker reappeared with a 2 minute message that is hopeful and, as always from him, true (here).
John 8:42-47
42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
God Bless you,
-Sam
Wow! A lot of info on here! I’m gonna have to check out some of the “ here’s” to get informed!