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Daniel Ellsberg, Johnson, Bush, Loyalty vs. Betrayal
By Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo - Writer Daniel Ellsberg, Johnson, Bush, Loyalty vs. Betrayal However, in the thirteen months leading up to that election, we must ask, are our top military commanders, and everyone of those of the Republican Party, and those who hold office in Washington, are they all treasonous cowards-Traitors-are not one of them Patriots? Americans are not subscribed to preserve the president, but to preserve the Constitution. And this, none of those in congress have done. The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author 
A story of morality and ethics, and how Ellsberg exceeded the value of both presidents, by forsaking displaying courage, and trampling all-over, greed, violence and stupidity.
When Doctor Daniel Ellsberg was just 33 years old, he was appointed special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton. In his very first day, there the North Vietnamese navy allegedly fired 21 torpedoes at U.S. naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Less than one hundred people were allowed access to top-secret transmissions, which indicated that the news was incorrect or bogus-the attack never happened.
With more than 200 people at the inaugural Ware Seminar on Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College's Center for Global Citizenship, last Thursday evening Ellsberg said, "I knew Congress was being deceived into a declaration of war and that the public was being totally deceived into a landslide victory for a man who was about to plunge them into a big war." President Lyndon Johnson, used the situation of the false report of the non-incident to enflame the American people and thereby dragging America into war with Vietnam."
Doctor Daniel Ellsberg was not only a very bright young fellow but he also possessed a conscience. That cannot be said about many of those to which the title of this article refers. Ellsberg, now a 76-year-old activist, first gained attention during the Vietnam War by releasing the Pentagon Papers to several newspapers, including the New York Times and others, thereby outing unknown U.S. policy decisions concerning the war and its escalation.
Ellsberg said that of late he believes a coup has been organized with the presidency of George Bush, calling it, "rogue administration." I hail Dr. Ellsberg, in repeating what I have been saying since the impeachment of President Clinton. The Democrats paid no attention either to many who tried in vain to set them on the right path, including me back then and even less now. These days I find little difference, aside from talk between the two parties and those who pretend that this is not the case, are engaging in intellectual masturbation.
Ellsberg is convinced, as are many of us, that if another terrorist attack occurs in the United States, the president would suspend and dismantle the Constitution and that hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners and dissidents could end up in detention camps. "I think we're in danger - we're in a crisis," he said. I think he is partially correct. I think this is the one time in history that real men must come to the aid of their Constitution, but because, perhaps unlike Ellsberg, I believe that the mercenaries which are allegedly picking-off innocent civilians, are practicing, for what they are planning to do here to Americans who oppose the bevy of treasonous cowards. I further believe that it isn't a matter of chance that "IF" there is a new 9/11 terrorist attack, or even that it will be a matter of chance that there "may be a terrorist attack."
I believe with all of my heart that the grandsons of those who attempted, along with Prescott Bush, to usurp FDR's presidency, in the 1930's, are hard at work planning a faux "terrorist attack," planned and executed by agents of members of this administration who have displayed enough treasonous behavior, that had they lived in General George Washington's or Abe Lincolns administration would have been dragged from the White House and congress by their collars and slammed into prison awaiting trial for High Treason. I further believe that if the Democrats capture the presidency and do not commence a War Trial and High Treason Trial against this administration, from top to bottom, then they are as guilty as these traitors.
Further, were I president, the day after the election, I would declare war on the mercenaries, every single one of them and the companies that hired them and their executives, and bring them to justice. It is time money stops talking and shuts the Hell up forever. Real Americans are sick and tired of overt, covert, treason and of cowards in congress and to that effort my time and money are going to Cindy Sheehan to begin a process of bringing the demoniacs to justice. I would then search out all of the subversive institutions, whether churches, "think tanks," mercenaries, industrialists, businesses and sweep the nation free of treason to our sacred documents, and for spilling blood and guts and defecating all over the dignity of this great nation and its people and for mass-murdering the people of another nation to satisfy the insanity of a group of men and women who are in league with Satan's biblically illiterate faux churches, which are a blasphemy upon the name of the True God and Satan's oil companies.
Lincoln, said: "The people are masters of both congress and courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who pervert the constitution." In the coming election, (2008) I am asking here, and now, for all Americans to wake up and vote out the bastards. It is time for the single, employed, females, 60% of which did not vote in 2004, to put aside their personal agenda and pretend that they are responsible citizens and vote. It is time for those males who claim to be Americans, but often neglect they duty to their nation by pissing away their lives watching TV and drinking beer until their tummies look like watermelons and instead serve it as best, they can, by at least voting in presidential elections.
Political War Criminals have charge of our government-criminals who have matched the atrocities of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but because they have money, and because their opponents are timid to the point of the distraction of supporters, their crimes go unabated. Those in The White House, their contractors, and supporters, still steal the wealth of our people and our treasury to emptiness, and still nothing is done. Oil is projected to rise to between $150-$200 a barrel and nothing is done. Habeas Corpus has been eliminated and still nothing is done. The Constitution has been fragmented and still, nothing is done.
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg Ph.D., said he has been called a traitor numerous times for breaking a "vow of secrecy" when he released the Pentagon Papers. Dr. Ellsberg pointed to actions taken by Bush that he said violate the law, including endorsing warrantless surveillance and lying to Congress about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At the same time, he was quick to chastise the Democrats in Congress, saying that by going along with Bush's war they've failed their duty to uphold the Constitution.
He said the Senate resolution passed last Wednesday declaring Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a terrorist organization is an invitation for Bush to declare war on Iran.
Ellsberg compared Wednesday's resolution to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, passed Aug. 7, 1964, that gave Johnson a virtually blank check for combat in North Vietnam. He laid out a scenario of $200 a barrel for oil, the possibility of retaliatory attacks against the U.S. and the president keeping open the "nuclear option" to attack Iran. He said he is asking people in government who have information that could stop such a war before it happens to not do what he did by releasing the Pentagon Papers after the war started. He said they should do what he didn't do - release the information before a disaster happens. "Don't wait till the war has started," Ellsberg told the audience. "Don't wait till the bombs are falling or thousands more have died."
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