A Coup Has Occured

[Fidel]

Below is the transcript of an interesting, if somewhat long-winded speech by former US Defense Department Analyst, Daniel Ellsberg.

 

I thought I post it up here, just in case anyone is interested.

 

 

'A Coup Has Occured'

 

I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.

 

 

If thereâ??s another 9/11 under this regime â?¦ it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

 

Will there be anything left for NSA to increase its surveillance of us? â?¦ They may be to the limit of their technical capability now, or they may not. But if theyâ??re not now they will be after another 9/11.

 

And I would say after the Iranian retaliation to an American attack on Iran, you will then see an increased attack on Iran â?? an escalation â?? which will be also accompanied by a total suppression of dissent in this country, including detention camps.

 

Itâ??s a little hard for me to distinguish the two contingencies; they could come together. Another 9/11 or an Iranian attack in which Iranâ??s reaction against Israel, against our shipping, against our troops in Iraq above all, possibly in this country, will justify the full panoply of measures that have been prepared now, legitimized, and to some extent written into law. â?¦

 

This is an unusual gang, even for Republicans. [but] I think that the successors to this regime are not likely to roll back the assault on the Constitution. They will take advantage of it, they will exploit it.

 

Will Hillary Clinton as president decide to turn off NSA after the last five years of illegal surveillance? Will she deprive her administration her ability to protect United States citizens from possible terrorism by blinding herself and deafening herself to all that NSA can provide? I donâ??t think so.

 

Unless this somehow, by a change in our political climate, of a radical change, unless this gets rolled back in the next year or two before a new administration comes in â?? and thereâ??s no move to do this at this point â?? unless that happens I donâ??t see it happening under the next administration, whether Republican or Democratic.

 

Read On

[Ongchaiyai]

Wow.....very long....has the coup changed since reading this?

[Fidel]

I forgot to mention that with all this dumbing down through the media etc, people don't like reading much.

[Torneyboy]

Will Hillary Clinton as president decide to turn off NSA after the last five years of illegal surveillance? Will she deprive her administration her ability to protect United States citizens from possible terrorism by blinding herself and deafening herself to all that NSA can provide? I donâ??t think so.

 

Nor will she

[Flashermac]

President Hellery would make Margaret Thatcher seem like Mother Teresa.

 

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

Hillary wouldn't turn off but will not increase more shit happening in the USA. She doesn't go around saying Freedom and Democracy while our freedoms and democracy are taken away from us.

[chuckwoww]

I wouldn't count on the Clinton regime being more transparent...she runs a tight ship...

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article2533394.ece

[Faustian]

Indeed, the American people have a choice of lying power hungry control freaks...what choice? Rep or Dem...they are the same, just a different party. A coup is really needed in the US....But folks are just too damn comfortable.

[Steve]

My fear is we get used to the deprivation of rights and civil liberties and accept it as normal.

[Torneyboy]

Yes i guess she would...