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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Ray McGovern Brutally Arrested Ray McGovern Brutally Arrested by Stephen Lendman Seventy-five-year-old McGovern is a former CIA analyst (1963 - 1990), turned activist/political critic/social justice advocate. On October 30, he was brutally and lawlessly arrested in New York. For exercising his constitutional rights. Attempting to attend an event featuring former CIA head General David Petraeus, former right-wing Center for a New American Security president Lt. Col. John Nagl, and neocon foreign policy commentator Max Boot. Charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. It bears repeating. For exercising his constitutional rights. Tickets cost up to $45. McGovern had one. He had every right to attend. Stopping him reflects police state lawlessness. In the so-called land of the free and home of the brave. Guards blocked his entry. At the 92nd St. Y venue. Calling itself "a world-class cultural and community center." Connecting people "through culture, arts, entertainment and conversation. For 140 years." "(H)arness(ing) the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives, and the power of community to repair the world." Not on October 30. Principled ideas were absent. Tyranny replaced them. 92nd St. Y officials have lots of explaining to do. Why McGovern was denied entry. Brutalized for trying. Why neocons were featured. Militarists. Spokesmen for imperial power. Permanent war. Extremist views demanding open challenge. Activists from The World Can't Wait, the Granny Peace Brigade, Brooklyn for Peace and Veterans for Peace urged people to protest police state harshness. McGovern planned challenging Petraeus the way he questioned former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006. About false statements on Iraq's WMDs and nonexistent Al-Qaeda ties. He was arrested. Jailed overnight. Saying he was warned "as soon as (he) got to the ticket-taker. 'Ray, you're not welcome here,' " he was told. Video footage showed him screaming in pain as police pinned his left wrist behind his back. During arrest, lots of blood was visible on his pants. Given out-of-control violence and human misery in Iraq, McGovern planned asking Petraeus if he'd "come out of retirement and try to do it better this time to train the Iraqi forces?" He's "no saint," he said. "(N)o great strategist. (A)n embarrassment to the US Army in which (McGovern) used to be proud to have served." In April 2011, he wrote about "Petraeus at CIA - Can He Tell the Truth?" Saying Obama's choice "raise(d) troubling questions." "What if CIA analysts assess(ed)" his Iraq and Afghanistan performance as failure? Would he accept or punish "critical analysis?" "The Petraeus appointment also suggests that the President places little value on getting the straight scoop on these key war-related issues." "If he did want the kind of intelligence analysis that, at times, could challenge the military, why is he giving the CIA job to a general with a huge incentive to gild the lily regarding the 'progress' made under his command?" McGovern compared Petraeus to the "ghost of Westmoreland Past." His Southeast Asia record included "deliberate distortion and dishonesty." Intelligence analysts proved it. Progress he touted was failure. Petraeus was Westmoreland redux. Lots of evidence confirmed it. He's gone. Critics debate whether by resignation or sacking. For sure, not for extramarital sex. Unless state secrets were compromised. He wasn't an Obama favorite. His loyalties were suspect. His departure removed the last Bush administration neocon holdover. An unnamed administration source said "some key figures close to the President wanted (him) out, and there was no sadness" to see him go. Media reports said FBI investigations began months ago into a "potential criminal matter." Not specifically focused on Petraeus. Information surfaced about a potentially compromised computer he used. Security concerns were raised. FBI agents discussed this with him. An unnamed congressional official briefed on the matter urged him to fall on his sword and leave. Whether he did or was pushed who knows. John McCain once called him "one of (our) greatest generals." His judgment leaves much to be desired. He's not Capitol Hill's best and brightest. He graduated near the bottom of his Naval Academy class. White House and media spin praised Petraeus' performance. As Iraq commander, CENTCOM head, commander US Forces Afghanistan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chief. Falsified hype and then some. Failure defined his performance. Mythology turned it into successes. Time magazine named him 2007 runner-up Person of the Year. As meaningless a designation as Nobel Peace awards. Before he fell from grace, he was called aggressive in nature. An innovative thinker on counterinsurgency warfare. A talisman. A white knight. A do-or-die competitive legend. A man able to turn defeat into victory. His record was polar opposite. Competence didn't earn him four stars. He was more myth than man. His Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria commands failed. His former commander, Admiral William Fallon, called him "a piece of brown-nosing chicken shit." Former peers accused him of brown-nosing his way to the top. Hoping to get there by manufacturing successes. Concealing failures. Supporting Washington's imperial agenda. Advancing through super-hawkishness. Brown-nosing superiors. Lying to Congress. Hyping a fake Iranian threat. Supporting Israel's worst crimes. Even though suggesting the longstanding special relationship at times does more harm than good. In March 2013, he joined the American Corporate Partners. An NGO "assisting veterans in their transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce." At the same time, he became honorary OSS (Office of Strategic Services/CIA's predecessor organization) Society chairman. A City University of New York (CUNY) visiting professor. A University of Southern California Judge Widney professor. A UK University of Exeter Strategy and Security Institute honorary visiting professor. Students are advised to avoid him. He chairs investment firm Kiohlberg Kravis Roberts' KKR Global Institute. Harvard's JFK School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs named him non-resident senior fellow. He belongs to various other organizations. After arrest, McGovern was transferred to the 100 Center Street police station. Placed in central booking ahead of arraignment. He's on the State Department's Diplomatic Security "Be on the Look out" (BELO) list. In 2011, he turned his back on then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University. According to former State Department foreign service officer Peter Van Buren: "University cops grabbed McGovern in a headlock and by his arms and dragged him out of the auditorium by force, their actions directed from the side by a man whose name is redacted from public records." “Photos of the then-71 year old McGovern taken at the time of his arrest show(ed) multiple bruises and contusions he suffered while being arrested." "He was secured to a metal chair with two sets of handcuffs. (A)t first refused medical care for the bleeding" they caused. At the time, disorderly conduct charges were dropped. FOIA documents obtained showed State Department investigations for his "political beliefs, activities, statements and associations." He sued the State Department for violating his First Amendment rights. Winning an injunction against inclusion on its BELO list. His treatment now and earlier reflects America's abysmal state. More police state than democracy. More battleground than homeland. More tyrannical than free. More unfit to live in than ever. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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No State shall...coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.... Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 He doesn't have any CONstitutional rights to exercise and neither do we until we remove the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKERS from ownership of Amerika. Violation of any part of the Constitution can only be done outside of the jurisdiction of the Constitution otherwise it's TREASON. So, the bankers created a THING called the FRN and another jurisdiction (COMMERCIAL) we joined it and forfeited our Constitution, our rights and our souls. We are criminal accomplices to this murderous fraud. We are not innocent of the blood being shed around the world for these filthy banker sons of bitches. The reason old man Rothschild could say he didn't care who made the laws so long as he created the money is because the money is the law. The MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE dictates the CHOICE OF LAW. If we want to revert to Constitutional jurisprudence then we must also revert to honest money. I think it's difficult for folks to get a grip on just how destructive the accepted monetary system is to the law of the land, never mind the utter destruction to the economy. When we allow a few crusty old paedophiles/satanists from Europe to create money out of thin air and then charge us interest on their imaginary money, we have in effect been invited into their satanic world and have accepted the invitation and all of the hardships that accompany it. The Bankers and their political allies have operated a fraud upon this country since before any of us (possibly excepting Cyni-hahaha) existed under the misconception that the Constitution exists in their world. It doesn't, but we do. Humans tend to rationalize to their betterment. By this I mean we view things from our own personal perspective rather than from an objective and long range view. In our hearts and minds we know something is drastically out of whack here on planet earth, yet we make excuses for ourselves as participants. I don't think one person on this 4UM is happy to support the current posers in D.C., yet they do. FEAR is the rational analysis of those that have never faced down or fought a bully. The truth is the sooner you give the bully something to to fear the sooner the bully will leave you alone. The sooner we unite and destroy the mobsters controlling us the sooner our children can live in peace. Otherwise, we can continue down the road to self destruction by our own "CHOICE OF LAW" by which the entire world is in bondage. "I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.". Étienne de La Boétie
Thanks for mentioning the "World Can't Wait" organization in your article, Mr. Lendman. As I'm sure you know they are the creation of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and anything they support should be embraced by the masses. As the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) evolved as an organization, they came to reject electoral politics, a position they continue to uphold. According to Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air they contrasted themselves with other self-identified Marxist-Leninst parties in the 1980s who advocated working within or alongside Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, with the RCP summarizing their position in the slogan, "The right to vote has been won ... Now we need the political awareness and sophistication not to use it." In the years of the Jackson presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 the RCP's Carl Dix ran as an "anti-candidate [...]running against the notion that oppressed people could rely on the election arena to accomplish positive change."[8] The RCP holds that its line against electoral politics has been vindicated by the dissolution of several of the Marxist-Leninist groups in the Jackson Campaigns, and others' perceived shifts of line away from open advocacy of revolution with "ultra-leftism." The RCP's critique of what they call the "voting trap" has led many other socialist groups to label them "sectarian" and "abstentionist". Other critics have claimed its organization of mass rallies amounts to engaging in lesser-evil politics, particularly with their World Can't Wait campaign.
How can one with a ticket be charged with criminal trespass and resisiting an unlawful arrest. Is there more to the story ???
"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.". Étienne de La Boétie
Ray is a Truther. They can not have any one in the Government ask penetrating questions. He asks questions like you or I would ask. Ex-CIA Ray McGovernTalks About 911 Truth on C-SPAN Book Review Pt 1 of 2 Ex-CIA Ray McGovern talks about 9/11 cover ups Pt 2 of 2 Ex-CIA Ray McGovern talks about 9/11 cover ups
Anyone who assaults a 75 year old guy is truly chicken shit & beyond degenerate.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
Agreed ______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
No argument here. "I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.". Étienne de La Boétie
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