“Paramount among the responsibilties of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell ” –
United States Supreme Court Judge when the Court by a 6 to 3 ruling gave newspapers freedom to
publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971 revealing that Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and
Johnson had lied to the American people as they increased US involvement in a war they knew to be unwinnable.”
The war involved was the American war on Vietnam and the words quoted are from THE TIMES (of
London) Obituary of Daniel Ellsberg published June 19 2023.
It is ironic that both THE TIMES of London and THE IRISH TIMES are today deeply involved in
promoting war on Russia, spreading the type of lying propaganda spread by Hugh Pollard during
the First World War, the “Tan War” and the Spanish Civil War. You can check Wikipedia for him,
And also my BLOG – “Turds of a Feather – Two Guys named Pollard.”
Ellsberg stood trial in 1973 and the US authorities charged him with a dozen offences carrying a
maximum penalty of 115 years imprisonment. President Nixon’s National Security Advisor,
Henry Kissinger, called Ellsberg “the most dangerous man in America” and wanted him silenced –
‘I really need some SOB.. who will work his butt off and do it dishonourably,’ he told John Erlichman.”
All quotation are from THE TIMES.
Ellsberg appeared to have no chance of acquittal until the court heard of a break-in at his pychcho- analyst’s office by former FBI and CIA agents recruited by Erlichman.
The Nixon administration had subjected Ellsberg to illegal wire-tapping and sought to bribe the
judge, William Matthew Byrne, with Directorship of the FBI.
But the judge refused the bribe and acquitted Ellsberg.
President Nixon fumed -“The son-of-a-bitching thief is made a national hero…and The New York Times gets a Pulitzer Prize for stealing documents,” fumed President Nixon.
Later,Ellsberg was arrested more than 70 times for non-violent civil disobedience. But the US Government never again dared risk bringing him before a court.
All the above is taken from Ellsberg’s Obituary in THE TIMES.
Today, a full fifty years since the acquittal of Ellsberg and the award of a Pulitzer Prize to the New
York Times, the mainstream ,media in the western world is not muzzled.
But it has been emasculated and bribed by Government.
“Neutral” Sweden, former supplier of iron ore to the Third Reich, and candidate for NATO membership, was induced to produce an allegation of rape against Australian journalist Julian Assange.
It was a tactic,later droppped, to have Assange held in London for extradtion to the United the US to face charges which could earn him a prison sentence of 160 years.
Assange sought and acquired political asylum in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy, where US agents hoped to have him murdered. The US put pressure on the Ecudoreans to expel him from their Embassy.
He has since languished for many years in Britain’s most secure prison, Belmarsh,
awaiting extradition to the USA and a possible jail sentence of more than 160 years.
Humanity, including Americans, owe thanks to Assange for exposing the crimes of United States
Governments and their satellites, already unleashed, as well as planned for the future,against the least protected men, women and children on earth.
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Opting for peaceful coexistence with the USSR and Cuba, plus, ordering the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam etc., got JFK killed. LBJ reversed the order, four days after the assassination. The 1985 Miami court case – Hunt vs Liberty Lobby which the CIA lost and lawyer Mark Lane won – is evidence beyond all reasonable doubt the CIA assassinated JFK. Lawyer Mark Lane’s two excellent books on the assassination ‘Plausible Denial’ and ‘Last Word’ are an in-depth analysis of the assassination and they provide transcripts of the Miami court case. http://www.libertylobby.org/articles/2000/20000207cia.html
I don’t buy Pat McGinley’s conspiracy theory.
I only write about what can be easily checked and confirmed,