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| Commentary on CURRENT EVENTS, May 3, 2006 |
| ' WHISTLEBLOWERS' - - STEP FORTH NOW !!! |
| As known, the term ' Whistleblower ' derived from those in government service who witness or become knowledgeable of any and all sorts of public corruption including government waste of public resources, assets, and livelihoods. As an incentive for public servants to step forward and offer full disclosure of corrupt practices, Congress has provided monetary rewards that are contingent upon the amount of public funds involved and/or recovered. Thus it becomes a never-ending scenario between honest public servants trying to maintain their integrity when confronted with opportunists cutting corners for self-enrichment at public expense. For after all, public officials are supposed to be ' professionals ' in their chosen careers to carry out their jobs for the mutual benefit of all concerned, and not necessarily concerned about any given ruling regime or administration! Professional service for the public interest is supposed to supersede all forms of ' partisan loyalty ' ! Professional Civil Servants are supposed to serve the public interests in the same manner and extent as those career officers in the Military are to be professionals protecting the public interests. In short, both civil servants and the professional military are to place THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF or any SPECIAL INTEREST! When therefore a ' Whistleblower ' is confronted with a choice to turn in a fellow public official or turn their back when they witness or learn that public corruption has occurred, THE CHOICE is a rather simple choice! They have to ask themselves: Am I loyal to the current ruling regime or administration? Or am I loyal to MY OATH OF OFFICE to preserve, protect and defend the people of America? If they are truly ' professional ' then their choice should always be to remain loyal to their ' Oath of Office ' ! However what happens in times of war when corruption often takes the form of ' policy decisions ' in comparison to seeing someone stuffing their pockets and / or squandering public resources? What should public officials do when ' policy decisions ' are implemented under false, misleading circumstances, greed, warmongering, and profiteering? Should they remain loyal to the president and his cabinet officials ~ or should they make public the corruption they know to be surrounding detrimental policy decisions? This was the dilemma faced by many people in government service a generation ago during the ' undeclared war ' of the ' Viet Nam Era ' ! The prime example of an honest ' Whistleblower ' was Daniel Ellsberg when he photocopied over 7000 pages of what came known to be known as ' The Pentagon Papers ', while employed as an analyst by the Rand Corporation 35 years ago, and made them public to the New York Times newspaper! This single act initiated a chain-of-events that eventually brought down the ' Nixon regime ' and forced President Richard Nixon to resign from office! What Ellsberg did was expose the corruption surrounding the ' policy decisions ' that fomented the Viet Nam war upon this nation, and spread to the corresponding nations in Southeast Asia in which millions died, and even more were wounded! The undeclared war of the Viet Nam era remains a NATIONAL TRAGEDY, which four decades later has still never healed! In retaliation, Nixon ordered a burglary break-in of Ellsberg ' s psychiatrist office, carried out by the same persons, called ' The Plumbers ' to ' stop leaks ', who were later caught breaking into the Watergate Complex offices of the Democrat Party National Committee. This led to the massive attempt to ' cover-up ' the whole sorted affairs by Nixon and his regime cohorts ~ until John Dean, chief counsel for the ' Nixon regime ' , stepped forward before a U.S. Senate oversight committee and became a ' Whistleblower ' against the ' Nixon regime ' ! To this day Dr. Ellsberg REGRETS that he did not come forward a year or two earlier when first learning about ' The Pentagon Papers ' ~ when he wrestled over upholding his ' Oath ' compared to his ' employment duty and loyalty ' to the Rand Corporation ' think tank '! The decision to speak out and come forth was a bit easier for John Dean, as an 'Officer of the Court ' since becoming an attorney at law, plus a government official, he had to take his ' Oath ' more than once ~ AND HE CHOSE HIS DUTY TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC over any false sense of loyalty to the ' Nixon regime ' ! Consequently Dr. Daniel Ellsberg has written "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers ", as an historic legacy of the events that unfolded a generation ago and John Dean has also left his legacy in over nine books to date, his most recent entitled, " Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush "! The irony of both books is that the so-called ' PATRIOT ACTS ' are a direct and proximate result of the ' Bush regime ' trying to avoid having the same kind of ' Whistleblowers ' affect and disrupt the current ruling regime as happened to Nixon! And is it any wonder when we consider that Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, and scores of others surrounding Nixon are now incestuously permeated politically throughout the ' Bush regime ' ? And just as the Viet Nam war was started under the false pretense of an attack upon a U.S. Naval warship that never occurred in the infamous alleged ' Gulf of Tonkin ' incident, we have seen the same ' weapons of mass deception ' fall from the bloody hands of Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, and the nefarious many behind the scenes that started the current illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ! In the midst of the disastrous ' policy decisions ' taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq ~ now we see these same warmongers and profiteers instigating yet another war in Iran ~ threatening the use of nuclear weapons and other WMD ' s ! The most effective means to end this march to more death and more destruction is for more brave WHISTLEBLOWERS to step forward now and expose the corruption within the ' Bush regime ' and its corrupt ' policy decisions ' ! Public Servants ~ Honor your Oath of Office and condemn the ' Bush regime ' to the relics of history! Be loyal to your fellow Citizens as you have sworn to be! Make history with your Integrity! Think of the lives that will be saved and the American youth that may not be crippled and maimed for the rest of their lives! Then think of all those that have been killed and so horribly wounded this far! The Reform Party USA is offering a better world tomorrow under the ' 10 POINTS of REFORM for AMERICA ' ! Register to vote ' Reform ' today ~ so that tomorrow American can indeed be ' Reformed ' and be restored to a better nation! |
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