It
is not only the devastating wars, the big money from the Wall Street,
the drone operations and assassinations of many innocent people
around the globe under the Obama regime that made Hillary Clinton go
down, despite her desperate efforts to sell a progressive profile to
the voters. It is also the treatment of the Whistleblowers.
People
who exposed the dirty secrets and operations of the US empire and its
allies, have been treated like traitors who deserve the worst
punishment possible.
Julian
Assange is "trapped" inside the Embassy of Ecuador in
London for four years now, fearing that the US empire will imprison
him, as soon as he dare to get out, despite that “The United
Nations' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found, by a majority,
that he has been "arbitrarily detained" and that his
detention should be brought to an end;”
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange]
Edward
Snowden is still living in an
undisclosed location in Russia while seeking asylum elsewhere,
after the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against him.
“His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs,
many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the
cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.”
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden]
Chelsea
Manning “was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years imprisonment,
with the possibility of parole in the eighth year, and to be
dishonorably discharged from the Army.”
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning]
Many
others, who wanted to expose crimes against citizens have been
fiercely hunted under the supposedly 'progressive' Obama
administration.
It
is difficult to imagine that the tough, Far-Right Republican, Donald
Trump, would do anything different, but he has a unique opportunity
to give us a first serious indication that he is not on the side of
the hawkish DC establishment. If Trump would dare to pardon the
Whistleblowers, it would probably meant that he is not controllable
by this establishment and that he do cares about the ordinary people.
Picking Flynn, Sessions and Pompeo for key posts, it is very unlikely
to see such a thing by him, but then, you never know ...
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