The Main Stream Media has become the propaganda arm of the government, and the corporations that own it.

All of the dishonesty and ignorance they have displayed regarding the Snowden revelations show clearly where their allegiances lie, and it isn’t with the Constitution or the people of the United States.

Edward Snowden will most probably be given asylum somewhere because of the way the US government treated Bradley Manning. According to what I was taught in SERE training, Bradley Manning was tortured, and according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice he was denied a speedy trial. Everyone who doesn’t depend on the US media for information, knows this.

The US media refuse to report on facts that don’t please their corporate masters or their government contacts.

It doesn’t make any difference to the fact that the US government has been conducting unConstitutional monitoring of US citizens why Snowden revealed the programs. When the media reports the claims that these programs have been useful as facts, when those claims come from the same people who have been lying about the existence of these programs for years, they demonstrate that they are government propagandists, not journalists.

The media ignore the fact that there are no legal protections for whistleblowers in the intelligence field. You can’t, by legal definition, be a whistleblower if you work in intelligence, you can only be a ‘traitor’.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller

The members of the media might want to keep that in mind, when they see members of their ‘club’ attacked for leaking.

We started with Orwell and Kafka, and have descended to Mel Brooks.

First there was the journalists imitating an ancient Keystone Kops routine with the flight to Havana, and now, Corrente’s MsExPat tells us why Hong Kong didn’t arrest anyone.

One would think that at this point the US government would know Mr Snowden’s full name. There must be an Edward James Snowden out there somewhere who is going to be in for a nasty shock if he needs to use his passport. This also means, that apparently the Edward Joseph Snowden in the transit area of the Moscow airport still has a valid US passport.

Personally I would have hated to appear before the local town justice trying to justify an arrest based on the complaint of a Federal official that someone ‘stole State property’. The justice would throw the whole thing, me included, out of his court. The whole process was sloppy, ignorant, and arrogant. The Chinese won’t forget about it for a very long time.

Well, we will have an international cast with Edward Snowden as Victor Laszlo, Vladimir Putin as the poor, corrupt official Captain Louis Renault, Barrack Obama as Major Heinrich Strasser.

Maybe they can get Elton John or Billy Joel to play Sam, but I think Julian Assange will get stuck with the part of Signor Ugarte.

They might also drop the Spanish and call it The White House…