Might it be that more and more of us are putting petal to the metal, striding out of our comfort zone, right into the “line of fire” as this pulsing, electric, r/evolutionary Uranus/Pluto year 2014 begins? If so, then, hallelujah, there’s way more of us than of them. And see this.
Just returned from vitalizing, snow-crunching, mid-afternoon walk with puppy Shadow. Brilliant brilliant sun in real blue sky. No chemtrails. Flashed my eyes right into that shining orb, maybe a dozen times, drinking it in. YES! We are receiving the light, and we are legion.
Greenwald Will Return to US to ‘Force Issue’ of Press Freedom
February 7, 2014
by Sarah Lazare, staff writer
commondreams
In exclusive interview with Salon, Greenwald says ‘just the fucking principle is enough’
Glenn Greenwald (Photo: Kin Cheung/Associated Press)Journalist Glenn Greenwald says he plans to brave government threats and intimidation and return to the United States to “force the issue” of press freedom.
In an exclusive interview with Salon reporter Brian Beutler published Thursday, Greenwald said he’ll return “as soon as [his] schedule permits and there’s a reason to do so.”
He stated, “I’m going to go back to the U.S. for many reasons, but just the fucking principle is enough … On principle I’m going to force the issue.”
Greenwald says he plans to take this stand despite what he perceives as the growing risk of detention at the hands of the U.S. that he and his reporting partner Laura Poitras face—indicated by increasingly inflamed rhetoric of U.S. officials. Greenwald says they are being singled out despite the fact that NSA documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden have been broadly reported in mainstream media outlets.
“As the story kind of went on I thought the prospect of something happening to the journalists would dissipate to zero. I actually think that the risk is higher than it’s ever been,” Greenwald told Beutler.
The interview comes on the heels of high-profile attacks on Greenwald and Snowden from U.S. officials, including this week’s charge from Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, that Greenwald is a “thief” who is selling his “access to information” for “personal gain.” In late January, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper referred to journalists who work closely with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as “accomplices.”
Greenwald, who has struck a defiant tone throughout the many accusations hurled at him, has repeatedly charged that threats against him, Snowden, and others who have exposed NSA spying, constitute dangerous attacks on whistleblowing and journalism.
In a recent blog post, Greenwald asked, “Is it now the official view of the Obama administration that these journalists and media outlets are “accomplices” in what they regard as Snowden’s crimes? If so, that is a rather stunning and extremist statement.”
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Reblogged this on Spirit In Action and commented:
Thank you for sharing this. It is profoundly disheartening to me that not only is my country doing a disgustingly good impression of the country in George Orwell’s famous novel-it is doing so under the administration of a brilliant man who I worked to elect. Either my suspicions about the true nature of power and control in the global oligarchy as it relates to our democracy/republic are correct or my beliefs about our current President are in error. I have done enough research to believe that both suspicions and beliefs are correct. The oligarchs love nothing better than pinning their nastiness on a good hearted person who is trying to alleviate the harm they cause.
Perhaps I am a clueless idealist but I doubt it. Barack Obama is far too intelligent and well educated to believe that the panopticon society is a solution rather than a problem. He has little wiggle room tho as the figurehead for the country if he openly challenges the systems in place it would cause chaos:-(