To: Secretary of State John Kerry
From: Dondep
I'm prompted to write this
rant to and about you, Mr. Secretary, after hearing your
hypocritical and deceptive words today all over the mainstream news organs
concerning Edward Snowden, one of America ’s few courageous patriots. And to think I would have voted for you given
the chance in 2004! Of course at that
time I was a political refugee in Canada , having escaped the terrorizing surveillance of a
government you now serve, so was unable to.
A good thing, too, as it would weigh even more heavily on my conscience
that you knowingly accepted the theft of your winning vote tally for president
that year.
I didn’t need anyone to tell
me that you received more than enough votes in the seven contested states in
which Diebold voting machines were used that had been re-programmed with an
algorithm (Al Gore rhythm?) to show your opponent George Bush winning, but it was your
reaction that told the story. And that
reaction is one reason I feel you acted cowardly. You did NOTHING on that
election night to raise your voice against the crime of which you were aware
and complicit in; NOTHING. You did NOTHING to insist the light of day be
shone on the shenanigans in Ohio – despite your stance in your concession speech – that fateful night in 2004, of which you had to be aware. (Yes, “we”, because a vote is not just the candidate – it includes
the voters and the Spirit of Destiny those voters represent that is at stake.) Wiki may downplay the, uh, “irregularities”
(ugh) but they still resonate with many despite your sponsorship of Barack
Obama that same year in which you gave him the platform he needed for his own
run. While that one act may well be your
greatest legacy, it isn’t enough to paper over the stains of the Patriot Act,
your vote authorizing the Bush Iraq Misadventure, or today’s rant against
Snowden.
That night was only one
prelude to your most incredibly hypocritical statement of today, in which you
publicly excoriated Edward Snowden to “man up” and “come back to stand trial”
for actions that many feel are just as patriotic and
courageous as even your swift boat adventures in Vietnam allegedly were. The fact that “swift-boating” even entered
the political lexicon is testimony to how you allowed a nefarious deception to
take place, just as your vote to support the oxymoronic so-called “Patriot Act”
was. In fact, as deep as my own
vocabulary goes, I don’t know if there is a word that adequately describes someone
like you in our language. Is there a
word for someone that allows a deception to take place, and in fact is
accomplice to the effort – even when it is publicly at odds with your own personal
and political interest? (I chose
“mountebank” because it comes close on one level at least, but give us time and
one of us will coin an adequate term.)
How could you do those
things in good conscience, John? Go
along with the deception of that legislation that formalized the establishment
of Big Brother in the name of “patriotism”? As a bright (well, B-grade) Yalie
that was also a Bonesman, I’m certain you knew what you were doing when you
went to Vietnam for that “abbreviated four-month tour of duty” and returned to
speak out against the war, only to betray the anti-war constituency when you
not only voted for the Patriot Act but to allow your fellow Bonesman Bush to
take the US into a meaningless war in Iraq?
One that had nothing to do with “terrorism” but everything to do with
enriching your fellow Bonesmen while eliminating as many civil liberties as
possible in the run-up to a martial law you felt would be necessary in the face
of the coming poleshift?
That IS what you were
concerned with, isn’t it, sir? And still
are, if your rant today is any indication.
Why you were not out and front with forceful admonitions about an encroaching
surveillance state is indicative of someone who cares not about the
Constitution, but rather public reaction when the masses are finally told about
what they will shortly be facing. When politically-disaffected
civic activists and voters talk about the Tweedledee and Tweedledum nature of
the modern political system, your face is one they point to. The Constitution was not meant to be ignored
and junked in the face of modernity, it was meant to be updated without
infringing the intent. And it needs champions
to succeed, not apologists and shoulder-shruggers.
Let me share something with
you, John. If you thought the third rail
of politics was one to worry about, then you should know that you just touched
the fourth rail – the one with Edward Snowden’s face on it. Your comments against him may play well in
the Cosmos and Jockey Clubs in DC, but they will remind many in the heartland
just how much of an Establishment figure and how out of touch with them you
are. On this issue, your main supporters
will be right-wing Republicans who mouth platitudes of “liberty” while rushing
to sacrifice true freedom in the name of authority and security.
Haven’t you paid attention
to the mainstream media that covers your every move? Or do you only watch when your face is
on? Snowden’s face, and more importantly
the revelations he gave the world, have changed the discourse and brought to
light the depth of the surveillance state, and even though you can spin it a
thousand ways, when it gets down to it I’m sure even Dianne Feinstein isn’t
comfortable knowing some twenty-five-year-olds at Booz Allen are watching her
put on her panties. Do you think anyone
should be watching you and Teresa “doing the nasty”? Do you think that your position precludes
that from happening? Do you think that
having those moments – and the moments in which a spontaneous and ill-formed
thought is uttered that may come back to haunt you – available to potential
enemies in the future is not a distinct possibility?
If this screed ever comes to
your attention, which I doubt it will but if it does, it will be as a
consequence of the “haunting surveillance” I suffered from in 2002 while you
and your colleagues passed legislation to give legal cover to it. Fortunately that surveillance has been
reduced from “haunting” to “light” in my case, and in point of fact, even “light” can
easily be translated to “haunting” as a consequence of the
exponentially-increasing technological advances made by the NSA that you so
championed and enabled. TIA [Total Information Awareness] about every citizen is now
manifest from any location. You and your fellow elitists feel a sense of entitlement to view every citizen's communications, even the most intimate. All the while, you give only the flimsiest of nods to the civil liberties this Big Brother state erodes.
I mention that haunting
surveillance because I am one of the very few Americans that have suffered
unduly from the egregious application of that “Patriot Act”, even before it was
passed, along with all the subsequent abuses of “signals intelligence” the
intelligence community has engaged in.
How would you like having a government van parked outside your house, engine
running constantly, day and night, every day (with rare exception), for over a
year? Being followed to work, to the grocery
store, to the bank? And having your
phones tapped both conventionally and wirelessly? That seems to be just fine with you, but now
you insist on pushing the envelope by publicly calling out a hero as a “coward”
who needs to “man up”. Why don’t YOU “man
up” Mr. Secretary? “Man Up” and tell the
public to get ready for a public admission by your boss as to exactly WHY the
government you serve is so paranoid it has to Hoover-up all our communications,
every last scrap of them, from every last one of us! “Man Up” and explain why the NSA has been
flouting the Constitution since its inception! “Man Up” and confess you made a
mistake in supporting the anti-constitutional Patriot Act! “Man Up” that you
were a coward in not challenging the theft of your duly-elected presidency!
“Man Up” and admit that the legal system is controlled by the same forces that
allow the NSA and MJ-12 to terrorize the citizenry with surveillance that can
extend to “haunting”, and all for simply asking what the government has been Covering
Up and why it continues to lie by omission – as well as commission. "Man Up" and explain what the euphemism 'climate change' is really all about, or at least stop misleading the public about it while we await the Great Admission.
In short, Mr. Secretary - "Man Up" yourself.