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The only safe place today for a whistleblower is China or Russia. They can kidnap you like they did to the Venezuelan diplomat (violating the Vienna Convention

The only safe place today for a whistleblower is China or Russia. They can kidnap you like they did to the Venezuelan diplomat (violating the Vienna Convention) who was tasked to help secure food and medicine around the US embargo and sanctions. They can force the landing of your plane on friendly territory of a countries head of state like they did to Bolivia's Presidents Evo Morales plane over Austria (violating numerous UN and diplomatic treaties). They can try to kill you as the CIA planned for Assange as they do regularly (look up the Orwellian Disposition Matrix). We live in a different era of empire where the corporate media and the corporate journalists are the ones calling for censorship. The media used to "actively" report on matters like the Pentagon Papers, Church Commission, My Lai Massacre. Decorated CIA officers like John Stockwell who exposed genocides and massacres in non-white countries were not muzzled (although denied an income from their whistleblowing). Daniel Ellsberg was free to roam. It seems that the journalists who actively cover the machinations of the national surveillance state are primarily entrepreneurs (substack etc.) and not part of the corporate media apparatus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell_(CIA_officer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell_(CIA_officer) https://www.amazon.com/Search-Enemies-CIA-Story/dp/0393009262 https://www.amazon.com/Search-Enemies-CIA-Story/dp/039300926... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/10/19/outrage-following-illegal-extradition-of-venezuelan-diplomat-alex-saab/ https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/10/19/outrage-following-ill... https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/cia-plot-shows-us-promises-on-assange-can-t-be-trusted-court-told-20211028-p5945a.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/cia-plot-shows-us-promis... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre https://taibbi.substack.com/p/yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-state https://taibbi.substack.com/p/yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-s...

viktorcode 5y ago
Russia's one of the most dangerous countries to work in as a journalist.
api 5y ago
> The only safe place today for a whistleblower is China or Russia. Only if you are not blowing the whistle against those regimes. If you're a whistleblower in China or Russia the safest place for you is probably over here. Has it ever been different?
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  We agree on that. Pick your poison. But it is poison nontheless.
- elzbardico 5y ago
  Yes. It was really different. The government had some restraint in the past about spying on their own citizens. McCarthy and McCarthyism ended up universally condemned, the press felt it was their duty to bring things like watergate to light. Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law. Things changed a lot
  - garaetjjte 5y ago
    >Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law. Maybe they could trust these, but the government really didn't have much restraint on spying in that period, like COINTELPRO program. When documents were stolen from Media FBI office in 1971, they found documents saying FBI was aiming to "get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox" to activists.
elzbardico 5y ago
And now we have some weasels calling Manning a criminal.

viktorcode 5y ago

Russia's one of the most dangerous countries to work in as a journalist.

api 5y ago

> The only safe place today for a whistleblower is China or Russia. Only if you are not blowing the whistle against those regimes. If you're a whistleblower in China or Russia the safest place for you is probably over here. Has it ever been different?

1cvmask 5y ago
We agree on that. Pick your poison. But it is poison nontheless.
elzbardico 5y ago
Yes. It was really different. The government had some restraint in the past about spying on their own citizens. McCarthy and McCarthyism ended up universally condemned, the press felt it was their duty to bring things like watergate to light. Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law. Things changed a lot
- garaetjjte 5y ago
  >Anti war activists could trust the press and courts of law. Maybe they could trust these, but the government really didn't have much restraint on spying in that period, like COINTELPRO program. When documents were stolen from Media FBI office in 1971, they found documents saying FBI was aiming to "get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox" to activists.

elzbardico 5y ago

And now we have some weasels calling Manning a criminal.