Americans Love the Taste of Tyranny

Taking a leak on "national security"

Recently, twenty one year old National Guard airman Jack Teixeira was arrested at his family home in rural Massachusetts. Teixeira’s “crime” was overseeing an online gaming chat group called Thug Shaker Central. Ironically, if he’d been an actual thug, a real life violent gangster, he’d probably be in less trouble than he is now.

Teixeira is accused of leaking “highly classified” military documents regarding the war in Ukraine, along with other “national security” information. I remember when the Left used to ridicule Richard Nixon for his reliance on the old “national security” bugaboo. But that was when I was a young, long haired radical, back in the golden days of America 1.0. The documents, like most leaked information, made the government look bad. Which, of course, it is. Unspeakably bad, and corrupt, and evil. So naturally, at least some of that criminality is documented. I guess they keep some stuff because they’re actually proud of it. Like a serial killer keeps “trophies.”

Footage of the FBI arrest reminded us once again of just what kind of government we actually have now. These great heroes were dressed in camouflage, like they’d just sprayed a village in ‘Nam with napalm. The kid looked pretty unimposing in his shorts and tee shirt, kind of like Roger Stone’s hearing impaired wife forced outside in her nightgown during the pre-dawn raid of that dangerous criminal’s home. Or some ninety years ago, when they ransacked befuddled Richard Hauptmann’s home, in the course of framing (and eventually executing) him for kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. The authorities never show up in camouflage to ransack a Mafia don’s home, or the headquarters of the Bloods or Crips. That’s for the Branch Davidians of the world.

They could have claimed this entirely nonthreatening kid reached for a weapon, and filled him full of as many holes as they put in Dr. Carl Weiss after he didn’t shoot the great Huey Long. Americans certainly wouldn’t question it, let alone protest. Americans don’t question or protest anything. Perhaps I’m stupid to call this Substack “I Protest.” It probably drives people away, being as how they are seemingly instinctively opposed to resisting authority. A famous experiment concluded long ago that about 80 percent of human beings will refuse to disobey any order from an authority figure. There’s that 80/20 split again I’ve talked about so much.

So what exactly is Teixeira’s crime here? We are told that he and some other young gamers swapped “memes, offensive jokes, and idle chitchat,” to quote from a BBC story. Certainly seems like some serious offenses. After all, Douglas Mackey was recently convicted of posting a meme offensive to the glorious, Mother Teresa-like figure Hillary Clinton, and could face ten years in prison. So memes can be deadly it seems. The chatting included people from all over world, including the dreaded Russia. Somehow, in a way that hasn’t really been explained, the classified material found its way onto this forum, amongst the memes, jokes, and chitchat.

I haven’t figured out what was leaked that is so serious. Apparently, it was revealed that, gasp, the United States and NATO are deeply involved in aiding the penis piano playing comedian in the Ukraine. Gee, if some “traitor” hadn’t leaked that, how would the public ever have known? It’s not like both “competing” parties have been slobbering over giving even more than the $200 billion or whatever the figure is now to the venerable Zelensky, and his crusade against political opposition and criticism in the press. What a revelation! Our leaders, and our “free press” have done such an admirable job of maintaining impartiality on the issue.

I have to confess that I’ve never understood what the big deal is over “leaks.” No one called it a “leak” when the psychiatric records of Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern’s original running mate in the 1972 presidential election, were made public. That had about as much to do with “national security” as most of these leaks do. In essence, leaks are nuggets of sometimes pertinent information, which should be known by the public. In a so-called “democracy,” anyhow. Then Bradley Manning was originally sentenced to decades in prison for “leaking” horrific videos of our brave boys in action. Support the troops! Thank you for your service!

Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are two other noted “leakers.” Well, whistleblowers is a more honorable term, although Americans generally hate them as much as they hate leakers. Look at where they are. Hunter Biden is still prideful enough to sue the guy who “leaked” his laptop to the conservative press. I’ve written a lot about whistleblowers, and how they are universally disliked by the state controlled media and our laughable “representatives.” If you think about it, every bullied victim becomes a whistleblower when they report bullying. Read my book Bullyocracy if you don’t understand the extent to which society despises them. Those reporting sexual assault are sometimes lauded, depending upon the politics of the accused.

Thus, Anita Page and the woman who said Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her on an unknown date, at an unknown place, some thirty years after the fact, are hailed as courageous. But Paula Jones is “trailer trash.” And Tara Reade isn’t attractive enough for the studly Joe Biden to have sexually harassed her. But everyone who exposes the kind of corruption that Manning, Assange, and Snowden did is smeared by the state controlled media and rejected by the brainless majority of eligible voters. The Left continues to extoll the virtues of the Pentagon Papers, but like Watergate, it was really the only time our kept press acted like half ass investigative journalists.

Think about the use of the term “national security.” The same people who throw this around to include things which most definitely do not involve national security, support keeping our southern border wide open, even during the contrived COVID narrative. Isn’t that a tremendous breach of national security? Our government and its kept media hate giving useful information to the public. They don’t believe in the First Amendment and a free press. This is all about covering up, and interfering with the public’s right to know. They don’t think you have a right to know. And most Americans seem to agree with them. They love not knowing things.

The last classified documents from WWI weren’t released until 2011. The CIA, which didn’t even exist at the time, had vigorously opposed the declassification of documents related to the crucial area of using invisible ink to convey secret messages. The records of the interrogations of Rudolf Hess, who was put away for life as the sole inmate of Spandau Prison, won’t be released to the public until 2041. Hess, for those who don’t know actual history, was one of the good guys. He flew a solo peace mission, unbeknownst to Hitler, crash landed in England and was immediately incarcerated and convicted at the ghastly Nuremberg show trials.

Apparently, a great deal of information dealing with nuclear fission, even the patents, remain classified. Much about the OSS- the predecessor to the CIA- is still classified. It’s hard to determine clearly, but it seems that information about POWs and MIAs, dating back as far as WWII, remain classified. The POW-MIA coverup is huge, and I covered it in detail in my book Hidden History. Information on the death of Nazi Heinrich Himmler was classified for 100 years, bringing to mind the long periods of time that JFK assassination records were scheduled to remain withheld from the public. Records relating to the activities of the Royal Engineers with the 67th Chemical Warfare Company in WWII are to be sealed for another seventeen years.

It it doubtful that any “smoking gun” exists in any classified document. And things could be worse- Scotland Yard is still keeping documents related to the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 secret. Something about protecting sources. Our perennially corrupt and incompetent leaders may like “trophies,” but don’t chronicle their misdeeds in print, like some teenage girl’s diary. There is a compulsion to conceal, to coverup, even when there is no reason to do so. Like habitual liars, they lie when they don’t have to. No declassified JFK assassination record is going to list the names of the conspirators, and the individual roles they played. But even if they did, and as I said, they do like to boast, it’s highly unlikely that most Americans would care.

The media response to all this was reflected in a headline from USA Today, which proclaimed, “Here's why the US can't stop military and intel members from leaking top-secret documents.” That’s what’s important; to stop “top secret” documents from winding up in gamer chat rooms. Both Left and Right agree- we must clamp down further and tighten security. Give them even more power. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the few to defend the dreaded leaker, tweeted, “Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more.”

Greene expounded by saying, “Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?" RINO chickenhawk Lindsey Graham warned Greene against defending Teixeira, and the Pentagon called the leak “a deliberate, criminal act.” Snowden was exiled for the “crime” of informing the American people that the NSA was spying on them. Assange exposed many things, including Hillary Clinton’s criminal duplicity. I’d call them all heroic. The media, the politicians, and the corporate world are on the side of the Military Industrial/Intelligence Complex, not the side of the largely ignorant populace.

So this young “leaker” is in pretty good company. I haven’t seen any public opinion polls on it yet, but my guess is that most ‘Murricans consider Teixeira at least dangerous, and at worst a “traitor.” Everyone loves to throw the words “treason” and “traitor” around a lot now. The real traitors, of course, are those who swear allegiance to a Constitution they oppose; our “representatives,” who vote against our interests as inexorably as we vote them back into office every election, at a rate of some 96 percent. But millions who continue to give these clowns- the worst people on earth- great powers and pay for their lucrative pensions- think the enemy is the “leaker,” or the J6 “insurrectionist,” or the parent angry at a tyrannical school board.

In fact, I see “leaking” information as a positive force in a supposed democracy. The people have a right to know what their government is doing, even if most don’t want to know. I think it’s a greater crime that our troops played soccer with decapitated heads in Iraq and Afghanistan, or celebrated blowing up civilians, than it is to release that information to the public. I think it’s important to know that our own intelligence agency spied on all of us, and the “leaker” who revealed that should be celebrated, not exiled. I think one of the few real journalists in the world should be given a ticker tape parade for exposing the corruption of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, not prosecuted.

I know the leakers, the whistleblowers, and the genuine rebels always lose. Daniel Shays. Eugene Debs. Huey Long. Martin Luther King. The Kennedys. The list isn’t that long. Most people get the message clearly; resistance is futile. That’s why we should honor and support the few brave souls who have the courage to expose some of the countless misdeeds of our truly criminal leaders. The focus on this latest incident will be on how “classified” material could possibly have been leaked to the unwashed masses, the common riff-raff, the ones 99 year old Henry Kissinger calls “useless eaters.” They will ignore any information, no matter how awful, that is revealed.

Most Americans didn’t bat an eye when it was learned that the government had an assassination program called Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, another in a long series of senseless wars and occupations. Or Operation Mockingbird, where CIA assets were planted in the mainstream media, to cover up the government’s nonstop criminal activity. They are still there, as witness Gloria Vanderbilt’s son Anderson Cooper, who admits he was recruited by the Agency in college. If some “leaker” exposed an official government hit squad, which had killed thousands of naysayers over the decades, I doubt that very many people would object.

The Founding Fathers would have been aghast at our Military Industrial Complex, and our unconstitutional intelligence agencies. John Quincy Adams reminded us that “America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Our entire foreign policy, for over a hundred years, has been built around nothing but that. But it’s even worse when it’s American dissidents, not foreign hobgoblins, that attract the wrath of our Orwellian government. Here’s a toast to you, Jack Teixeira. You’re not a “traitor.” You’re not a criminal. I hope they don’t make another example out of you, to remind those who might object to them one day, that we are under involuntary rule.