Letter
from Lhasa, number 352. No Place to Hide
by
Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Greenwald, G., No
Place to Hide. Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Penguin Books, 2014.
(Greenwald 2014).
Glenn Greenwald
This is a book about unaccountable
government, about unaccountable power. It opens a windows on a world, the world
of government/power, where nothing is how it seems, how as it appears, where
there are stacks of deception not of easy detection, and not easy to penetrate
and overcome for discovering elements of truth or of possible truth.
When Glenn Greenwald (US
citizen residing in Rio de Janeiro) and Laura Poitras (US citizen residing in
Berlin) went to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden, the Guardian gave them a ‘babysitter’, the Scottish Ewen MacAskill, who
is its defence and intelligence correspondent.
Snowden commented: “But
you know you have a minder. That’s why they sent him.” In fact...
In the real world, it is
not really possible to be defence and intelligence correspondent of an
important newspaper without being fully accepted from the military and from the
intelligence community. Ewen MacAskill was previously, from 2007 to 2013, Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief.
No one may enjoy that position without being fully accepted from the US
government and establishment, so, again, from their Secret Police Disservices.
That is not necessarily
a defect of the journalist who may be extremely naive and who may be
manipulated without being aware of being such. For a British journalist, it is
very improbable that he be naive. On the contrary, the field of manipulation
and hetero-directions is a very delicate field in which no event or possibility
may be excluded or judged improbable.
One may easily
hypothesize that the British SIS-MIx, the Intelligence Service[s] of the Crown,
eventually with the agreement or non-opposition of NSA-CIA fractions, were part
of the operation for managing the Snowden defection.
All that is not
necessarily a subjective guiltiness or defect or sin, however that explains why
this NSA story could be relatively easily published. It is a tale that when
news are passed to media they could not be easily censured and those provided
them could not be easily isolated and variously removed. Current brainwashing
make to believe that there be any freedom or any [from power] uncontrollable
and uncontrolled space. What there is not.
Snowden is finally a
young men. He is a specialist in hacking and was part of the US
intelligence-terrorist machine. That does not make him an expert in
international affairs and, apart from that, it would have been really
problematic, for him, as for whoever else, to find a place of the world really
free from the US and British influence. He reached Hong Kong. Maoist China is a
British-US creation and fully inside, even if unofficially, the area of
British-US terrorist. Hong Kong has some special status, since its previous
British belonging, and with continuing British strong influence.
The US positively
[positively from their point of view of their goal, or apparent goal, of
isolating Snowden ] intervened on Cuba and other Latin America countries for avoid
whatever possibility, from him, to find whatever refuge. They intervened also
on China, as on whatever possible refuge for Snowden. Even in the case of
Russia, it was evident the deep lag between its supposed independence and the
strong US and British influence over it, even if it finally accorded some
refuge to Snowden. That means that, apart from official quacking, the US
government did not want Snowden back.
Even if now everybody is
informed about the NSA & associates practices, these practices have not
been stopped or limited. Everything is going on as before, now even in a
stronger way if publicity could not cause the end to this form of
State/government terrorism and totalitarianism. Finally, people, the average
louses, do not worry, not at all. The Edward Snowden revelations actually
subverted nothing. Of course, it is not his fault. We are only trying to represent
reality.
Economic espionage from
the Anglo-American countries relatively to all the other ones, by the interception
of whatever communication in the whole world, is not a novelty. Anyway good that
this book repeat this information.
Parliaments are pure
cover for State Terrorisms and State/Government Totalitarianisms. Against the
single MP is used, from insecurity and deficience bureaucracies, the same
paranoid sophism they use against the other subjects: there is a danger, you
have to accept whatever we order to you to do and without posing any real
question. And also each MP reacts as whatever other average louse: by complying.
Bureaucracies follow their
internal dynamics. Bureaucratic proliferation is the natural syndrome of
whatever bureaucracy because it increases its power by increasing the number of
its employees and the sums it can spend. So, finally, bureaucracies absorb enormous
resources. Costs and wastes are bureaucratic power! Also the intrusion in
individuals’ lives, and their control, is additional bureaucratic power.
On the other side, bureaucrats
have not superior skills and they do not pursue any superior goal. They only
pursue their psychoses as individuals and as a collective entity, a mafia-style
entity. Not casually, much of the government activities are secret, and this
secrecy is growing since the criminal and insane side of government is
progressively growing and overwhelming. Criminals do not like publicity.
Glenn Greenwald’s books
is about privacy, so objectively misleading. Is it really a question of
privacy?
He, and people as him,
argue that if you feel observed you behave differently. It is true. In fact, it
is not a question of reality but a question of perception. If you do not know,
or if anyway you ignore or decide to ignore, you are observed, you behave again
differently from if you think you be observed. Not necessarily censoring
yourself. In real people, censorship combines with exhibitionism. You may
simply ignore you are observed. You may build various stages of indifference. You
may feel observed even when you are not. On the other side, religious
education, but also religious or ethical one, condition people to feel
observed, observed from God or observed from one’s own values, ethic and so on.
This psychological and philosophical
arguing is only a limited aspect of reality. If technology makes total control
possible, it will be used. These pro-privacy liberals would like laws obliging
government to restrain or self-restrain its invasiveness. This is an illusion,
a mystification too.
Already now there are
laws against privacy violations, against abusive interception of subjects,
proclaiming various legal rights. They simply do not work. They are just
propaganda. Even if government accepted a real restriction or self-restriction
of its possibilities, realty is binary, double, from this point of view.
Pro-privacy liberals mystify from this point of view helping hiding this
reality of a double government. That may not be their intention. It is not
relevant. It is what they do.
There is a formal or
normal or official government, the government as it is claimed, as actually it
is claimed in propaganda. And there is the same government with the face and
the practices, the legal powers too, of a parallel government, of a criminal
government. They are the same government. They are both legal, even if the
parallel law, the parallel government, is not known to the ordinary subject and
not, or not in detail, exposed in educational institutions and in legal books.
There is the law for
everybody, more or less for everybody can afford it, and there is an usually secret
law for the parallel government. There are normal police disservices,
deficience agencies, armed forces, and there are secret police disservices,
secret armed forces, secret deficience agencies, with special powers, in
practice with absolutely unaccountability relatively to the judiciary etc, so
with the power to violate whatever current law and practice, at institutional
orders, and in the name of a supposed “national interest”, “emergency state”,
“imminent danger” and similar sophisms.
Government, using this
parallel law, can commit whatever crime, inside and abroad. Also internal
terrorism and mafias are created and managed using this Secret Police legal
frame, a parallel law nullifying the official one and covering whatever crime.
The State Secret, the classified information, the same State Secret on the
State Secret, permits to keep totally covered, nearly invisible, these
activities of the parallel government, which is, we repeat that, the official
government but doing different things from those claimed, absolutely insane and
criminal although with legal cover, with the cover of the secret law.
There is no difference between
Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives and Labour or Lib-Dem or other, left,
centre or right, communists, liberals and nazi-fascists, once they are in
office. Once in office, such is government and whatever political colour, or
absence of colour, has to follow these rules where normal government and
insane-criminal one are only two faces of the same government. The point is
that criminal practices are not used from some moral people in the name of some
superior interest, but from insane and criminal louses self-proclaiming
‘institutions’. And it can be only such.
The politician is a
showman/woman used for conquering the vote of the people he/she deceives. Once
elected, and even more if he/she becomes an administrator or an institutional
figures, he/she surrounds him/herself of a staff not really different from
him/herself. All these institutional figures variously interact with the
bureaucracies they should, in theory, lead. Government, as a whole as well as
in its various factions and sub-factions, variously interact with economic and
financial interests have contractual power relatively to it.
Technology destroys
privacy At the same time it can help to defend it, in some limited aspects, if
properly used. Since one cannot rely on government self-restraining itself,
perhaps one should pursue absolute publicity, the absence of privacy, also for government,
for secret/parallel government too. Of course, without any real illusion.
Criminal/Secret/Parallel government will always try to preserve itself and its
insane criminal practices. In fact, government is against the free diffusion
and use of technologies, which are under tight government control and monopoly.
Only technologies permit to control subjects are freely buyable and usable from
the same subjects who in this way pay for being controlled. See the mobile
phones.
We have no program and no
preference. We are only exposing problems, which may be have no solution. On
the other side, the large majority of subjects are just louses anxious to
uniform themselves to power and government, and there is no reason, also no
utility, to try to change them.
Glenn Greenwald arguing
about terrorism and antiterrorism, although journalistically elegant, and also
journalistically superficial and vain, is decidedly deceptive in its essence.
From 9/11, to nearly all terrorist operations, they have been cases of
State/government terrorism, not external threats. Also before the 9/11
Bush-Cheney terrorist attacks. Where, occasionally, some terrorist attack has
not been directly organised from Secret Police branches of the CIA, FBI or
other government agencies at government orders, it was anyway organized and implemented
from terrorist groups created on government decision, promotion, sponsorship
and eventually with government fully informed of going on attacks. Terrorism
always is a government activity. No independent terrorism is possible. It is
too expensive and it needs technical tolls only governments have. This is what
happens in the USA, UK, but also, with some exception deriving from foreign
interference, in whatever country of the world. When there are ‘terrorist’
attacks, first look at the people formally and actually in office. Later,
examine eventually other options but only if stronger forces can interfere with
the will of the people on office. They organize and manage terrorists and terrorism,
obviously publicity denying whatever their responsibility, so declaring
responsible other, eventually ‘obscure’, entities.
The Modern Prince, the contemporary
bureaucratized governments, are terrorist and super-terrorist entities. They
need terrorism for justifying bureaucratic proliferation and overwhelming militarization
implemented with the justification of “fighting terrorism”. In this way,
States/governments strength their totalitarianism.
One of the merit of Glenn
Greenwald, apart from having contributed to publicly disclosing some materials
collected from Edward Snowden, is to have shown that many well known
journalists, as well as civil liberties supposed defenders, are just Secret Police
agents at the service of government and power. That is what happened against
him, labelled, from many of them, as a criminal to be prosecuted, while he was
only doing his job. As it always happens, the problem, for power and government,
was not their own insane and criminal nature and acts but those who denounced
and cooperated to denounce it using their same secret documents somebody
disclosed.
It is also interesting and
useful the author’s arguing about personality destruction. Just government
identifies a target, it launches its dogs for slandering in all possible way
its target. That happens at whatever level, be a target famous and ‘important’
or be not such.
Greenwald, G., No
Place to Hide. Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Penguin Books, 2014.
