For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for the indiscriminate murder that it is, 4 vets are under attack from the government they once served.
.@wikileaks My #drone #whistleblowers went public this wk & now their #CreditCards + #BankAccts are #frozen. Advice? pic.twitter.com/4wymwZgeZ9
— unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted (@JesselynRadack) November 22, 2015
The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack.
“My drone operators went public this week and now their credit cards and bank accounts are frozen,” Radack lamented on her Twitter feed (the spelling of her post has been conventionalized). This was done despite the fact that none of them has been charged with a criminal offense – but this is a trivial formality in the increasingly Sovietesque American National Security State.
Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland and Stephen Lewis, who served as drone operators in the US Air Force, have gone public with detailed accounts of the widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the program. Some of those disclosures were made in the recent documentary Drone; additional details have been provided in an open letter from the whistleblowers to President Obama, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, and CIA Director John Brennan.
“We are former Air Force service members,” the letter begins. We joined the Air Force to protect American lives and to protect our Constitution. We came to the realization that the innocent civilians we were killing only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS, while also serving as a fundamental recruiting tool similar to Guantanamo Bay. This administration and its predecessors have built a drone program that is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”
Elsewhere the former drone operators have described how their colleagues dismissed children as “fun-sized terrorists” and compared killing them to “cutting the grass…
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6 Comments
Restless Boomers
There is no way this kind of stuff is going to continue without a civil war. The Internet has jeopardized the ruling elite paridigm and they are doing everything possible to prevent mankind’s emancipation. Something is going to blow.
Mike Pilgrim
The revolution is coming. Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court have long ago outlived their usefulness. The new political system is forming, where Americans will actually have direct control of America. The Californian Initiative system of enacting laws is the first step of many towards that future. Washington will soon be a political ghost town, a political Detroit, an anachronism of the past.
Carolyn J Brown
Is there any way we can help these men financially until they can get their lives back? I’ve survived what you are going though guys…. in 2001 the government froze the assets of my (now) exhusband because President Bush froze the assets of all Middle Eastern Americans and he is Iranian American. If it hadnt been for the help of strangers we would’ve starved and been on the streets. I want to help you. Stay strong.
Mike Pilgrim
Crowdfunding is the fastest way to get them support.
Mike Pilgrim
The War on Terrorism is real, the Terrorism is coming from the White House and the Pentagon.
James Michael
What happens to good man that do what is right….. EXACTLY like the COPS (Serpico) Snowden and Bradley Manning…….