The Era of Tyranny Has Begun
Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org April 26, 2019
A fish rots from the head. In the Western world rot is accelerating. The rot in Washington is swiftly spreading to state and local governments and abroad to the Empire’s vassal governments.
Washington’s attack on journalism represented by the illegal arrest of Julian Assange has now spread to France. The US government’s policy of sanctions against sovereign countries that do not follow Washington’s orders has spread to the state of New York, where the governor has threatened sanctions against financial institutions that do business with the National Rifle Association.
In France the vassal president Macron has ordered three journalists, who revealed that Macron’s government knowingly and intentionally sold arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to be used for the slaughter of women and children in Yemen, to report for police questioning. The report proves that Macron’s government deliberately lied when it said it was unaware that French weapons were to be used for attack rather than defense use in violation of the Arms Trade Treaty of 2014. The journalists are under investigation by the French gestapo for “compromising national defence secrets.”
In other words, when the French government lies, it is a violation of national defence secrets to report it.
The entire Western world is adopting Washington’s approach to Assange and criminalizing the practice of journalism, thus protecting governments’ criminality. If you reveal a government crime, as Wikileaks did, you will be prosecuted by the criminal government for doing so. It is like permitting a criminal to prosecute the police and prosecutor who want him arrested.
With the First Amendment already under attack and targeted for elimination by Identity Politics for permitting “hate speech,” with the 10th Amendment destroyed by the war criminal Abe Lincoln, and with habeas corpus and due process destroyed by the George W. Bush and Obama regimes, only the Second Amendment still stands, and it is under attack from New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo revealed that his threat of sanctions against financial organizations has the purpose of putting “the NRA out of business. We’re forcing NRA into financial jeopardy. We won’t stop until we shut them down.” The tyrant Cuomo knows that the NRA cannot operate without a bank account and insurance coverage.
To be clear, Washington’s success in weaponizing government against the people has spread throughout the empire and down into the state governments of the United States.
When we add to this the mass spying on citizens made possible by the digital revolution, we have as the result the death of liberty.
To any longer speak of the “Western democracies” is to mouth a falsehood. There are exactly zero Western governments that can be held accountable by the people. There can be no accountable government without a free press. There is no economic freedom or freedom of association when businesses are punished for having business relationships with organizations that are targets of government oppression.
The “war on terror” was a disguise for an attack on the US Constitution, an attack that has succeeded. The worst act of treason in history is the US government’s destruction of the US Constitution.
The era of tyranny has begun. Elections cannot stop it.
The Tyranny Began In 1770!
So “The era of tyranny has begun,” has begun? Really!
So let me get this right, there was no tyranny when the United States government killed, murdered and forced the North American Natives that were the legitimate owners of their lands, into concentration camps that were called euphemistically “Native Reserves”, some 150 years ago?
There was no tyranny when millions of Africans were forced from their homes in Africa and sold like livestock to white Americans to be slaves during the 18th-19th century?
There was no tyranny when Commodore Perry in 1853/4 used canon diplomacy upon Japan to force them into trade?
There was no tyranny when the US used forced to take Panama with the use of Gunboat diplomacy, and they have never left since!?
That wasn’t tyranny for the annexation of Texas or Hawaii by force?
Or what all these other tyrannical acts of violence by the United States of America:
Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Libya (First Barbary War 1801)
Canada (War of 1812)
Algeria (Second Barbary War, 1815)
Spain (Acquisition of Florida, 1819)
Indonesia (Expeditions, 1832-38)
Conflict with Ivory Coast (1842)
Mexico (Seizing of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, some of Colorado, New Mexico, and the Texan border with the Rio Grande, 1846)
Spain (Annexation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, 1898)
Philippines (Reneges on promise of Philippine independence in exchange for Filipino support during the Spanish-American War, 1899)
Fiji (Expedition, 1855 and 1859)
China (First Opium War, 1839)
China (Second Opium War, 1856)
China (Looting China in response to the Boxer Rebellion as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance, 1899)
Taiwan (Expedition into Taiwan, 1867)
Korea (force trade using gunboat diplomacy, 1871)
Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica Republic, Honduras, Mexico (US shenanigans with their military, for the last 200 years!)
Germany (World War 1, lied about the Lusitania which was packed to brim with weapons!)
Guatemala (CIA overthrows of their government and funds dictator’s armies, 1960)
Iran (CIA overthrows elected Prime Minister, 1853: The Shah Of Iran Patsy To USA Installed)
Cuba (Bay of Pigs, 1961)
Brazil (coup d’état by CIA overthrows the government and funds opposition groups, 1964)
Chile (CIA funds opposition then overthrows the government, 1973)
Grenada (Overthrow their government, 1983)
Nicaragua (Helps install a military junta, 1909, 1912, 1927, 1980s)
Panama (Attempt to capture Gen. Manuel Noriega, 1970: Had US support, 1977: lost US support, 1979: had US support AGAIN!, 1988: lost US support, invasion and Noriega was toast)
Colombia (Funds and trains death squads, then goes to looking to kill those same death squads they created: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s….and still on going…to be yet determined!)
Iraq (Desert Storm, 1990)
Sudan, Afghanistan (Retaliation for terrorist attacks in embassies, 2001 …and still continuing)
Serbia (Kosovo War, 1999)
Afghanistan (Response to 9/11, 2001 and still on going)
Iraq (Bush’s policy of war against WMD-developing states, 2001 and still on going)
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq (Drone Attacks, 2001 and still on going)
Libya, Syria (No-fly zone and drone attacks, 2005 and still on going)
So Roberts, all these acts were not acts of tyranny perpetrated by the USA?
How many people have to die and suffer before an American values them as a human being? Let me guess, we all have to hand over all our resources and fortunes, live like animals, and be content that the United States Of America is going to look after us! Is that right. Just like how you Americans promised the Cherokee’s, Sioux and Apaches. Just like how you promised the Japanese. Just like how you promised the Central and South Americans. Just like how promised the Chinese. Just like how you promised the Filipinos. Just like how you promised the Hawaiians.
Frankly Mr Roberts, I’d rather believe the devil himself before I believe the word, any word, of an American!
I would like to make a correction, that is bothering me. I stated above that the Tyranny Began in 1770. That’s not true. It started in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, when the first settlement of thieving murdering Puritans came to the US and slowly started their wicked ways. Eventually killing and destroying their way to what was to become the monstrous United States of America.
The tyranny and murderous slaughter started with the seeds planted in 1607. Thus the title should read, Tyranny Began in 1607.
great letter above
but see this
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/28/594536/US-California-San-Diego-synagogue-shooting-teen-gunman-Poway