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28 Jul, 9 tweets, 3 min read
For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More

"In other words, if you tell the public the truth about your government's crimes, you will be made an example of so nobody else tries to do that." #DanielHale
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For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More (Audio)

"All US government statements about authoritarianism in other nations are invalidated by its treatment of whistleblowers and journalists."
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Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret government information about America's psychopathic civilian-slaughtering drone assassination program.
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The sentence was much harsher than Hale's defense requested but not nearly as harsh as US prosecutors pushed for, arguing that longer prison sentences are necessary for deterring whistleblowing in the US intelligence cartel.
In other words, if you tell the public the truth about your government's crimes, you will be made an example of so nobody else tries to do that. And then for that brave and selfless act, you'll be smeared as doing it for "self-aggrandizement".
It's the same as the way kings would torture dissidents in the town square to show everyone what happens when you speak ill of your ruler, just dressed up in 21st-century language about "national security". A claim that is itself nonsense because as Julian Assange said:
This means that what we know about malfeasance in so-called free democracies like the US is necessarily just the tiniest tip of the iceberg compared to what we do not know, because for every bit of information that leaks out there are orders of magnitude more which remain secret.
They remain secret because, like any gang member, government insiders know what happens to those who talk.
The US government imprisons journalists and whistleblowers for telling the truth about its murderous behavior. All US government statements about authoritarianism in other nations are invalidated by its treatment of whistleblowers and journalists.

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Stealing someone's labor is worse than stealing their property, because it's theft of their life; you can replace property, but you can't replace hours of life. And rigging the system so people need to work longer hours in order to survive is this form of theft at mass scale.
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This is where I'm at. It's clear that there are wealth transfers and authoritarian agendas being opportunistically advanced in myriad ways on myriad fronts which can be opposed on a case-by-case basis without believing everything I read from the plandemic crowd.
The way Covid is being used to advance brazen government censorship and facilitating the rising inequalities and corruption of capitalism, the risk of mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports, these are concrete things you can oppose without disappearing down weird rabbit holes.
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What we need first, more than the end of capitalism or statism or any other ism, is real transparency. We need people's vision of what's going on in the world unobscured by government/corporate/financial secrecy and propaganda. Once we can see, we can figure things out from there
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That's also why he's in prison.
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"I don't like the US ruling the world with nonstop violence either, but if it wasn't us it'd be China!"

No unipolar global hegemon ever once existed in human history until three decades ago. Stop thinking of it as some unbreakable law of nature that there must always be one.
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They and their clique have been trying to pressure and cajole me into writing about a global Covid conspiracy for over a year, and I'm just not going to say something that I don't know is true. I just won't. I don't care how much misdirected rage they're able to whip up about me.
I'm reluctant to even address this because any time I do whatever I say gets spun in the most insanely negative interpretation possible, bits are snipped out of context dishonestly, and no good comes of it. They're the most disgustingly bad faith faction I've ever encountered.
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