Interesting how here in the US we talk about Russia being a place where anyone who speaks up ends up falling out a window, yet we also have a long track record of killing anyone who speaks truth to power. We only give a venir of dissent, if you see some public figure challenging the government, it’s safe to bet that their campaign isn’t a threat to the ruling class in some way.
I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job… The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress.
- Gary Webb, another guy suicided in the back of the head by the US.
Gary Webb
According to the Wikipedia article on the guy, his suiciding required two gunshots to the head.
I’ve been reading his book on this scandal too, it’s excellent. Long, but it’s very entertaining so it goes fast.
Ah, I see, a confessed reader of un-American (and likely banned-) books. You must be very, very depressed. Despondent even. It would be a shame if anything happened to you as a result involving bullets (three max, place your order in advance), high windows, poisons, or a door plug seat on a 737. “Thoughts and prayers” in advance, no extra charge.
Wut. The US has a list of people to assassinate. Its not a conspiracy theory, they admit it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
They even had to come up with a euphemism “targeted killing” because it is illegal to assassinate, yet they still do it.
I dont think any US Americans are unaware that the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, including in assassinations.
People in general are pretty unaware of the scope of US atrocities, or they think it’s something that happened in the past, and isn’t currently happening.
Thus all the posts to “protect our freedom from authoritarian regimes”, when in reality it’s the US who runs slave labor camps, is currently bombing many countries, killing and torturing dissidents, runs immigrant detention camps, etc.
Read the Wikipedia article on the My Lai Massacre, (make sure to look at all the photos) and then lecture me about how I should “support our troops” and about how foreign people hate us for “our freedom”. I’m ashamed to say, though I was a kid when it happened and heard the name, I never once looked into it until now. Nobody ever mentions it, it never comes up in the press and surely not in conversation. Americans prefer blissful ignorance and fairy tale justifications for all the evil we do around the world and at home.
