US Government Treat Journalists as Terrorists

 The U.S. government is targeting whistleblowers in order to keep its hypocrisy secret … so that it can keep on doing the opposite of what it tells other countries to do.

As part of this effort to suppress information which would reveal the government’s hypocrisy, the American government – like the British government – is treating journalists as terrorists.

Journalism is not only being criminalized in America, but investigative reporting is actually treated like terrorism.

The government admits that journalists could be targeted with counter-terrorism laws (and here). For example, after Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others sued the government to enjoin the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans – the judge asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refused to promise that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge

After the government’s spying on the Associated Press made it clear to everyone that the government is trying to put a chill journalism, the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek tweeted: Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism.

Moreover, the Pentagon recently smeared USA Today reporters, because they investigated illegal Pentagon propaganda

Reporters covering the Occupy protests were targeted for arrest. The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war

The American government has been instrumental in locking up journalists in America, Yemen and elsewhere for the crime of embarrassing the U.S. government.

The United States depends mainly on hypocrite and misleading media to serve its capitalist interests through promoting their lies and fabrications. 

Relax everyone. You’re not terrorists unless you try “to influence a government.” Just type what you’re told.

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