U.S. Forces Down Plane of Bolivian President in Attempt to Kidnap NSA Whistleblower

Bolivian President Evo Morales was flying out of Moscow after attending a conference there when in midair the governments of Portugal and France abruptly canceled with no justification whatsoever their permissions to overfly their territory, forcing the plane down in Austria, where the plane was searched for a piece of contraband by the name of Edward Snowden. Snowden is the self-sacrificing hero who revealed to the world certain sinister National Security Agency massive surveillance programs targeting phone and Internet communications.

Pretty outrageous, waylaying a national leader like he's a stray cow being lassoed. Proud France and pathetic Portugal confirm again their status as U.S. stooge states. (But then, the U.S. has overthrown and even killed foreign heads of state, so this is small potatoes to these gangsters.)

So much for respect for national sovereignty. (Well, the numerous coups and invasions conducted over the last two centuries by the U.S.- starting with the invasion of British Canada in 1812- pretty much makes it naïve to believe in national sovereignty as anything but a convenient fiction. Of course, the U.S. isn't the only nation to ever invade another. Far from it.)

One clear message here is how much contempt and disrespect the U.S. has for any smaller country's leader who refuses to be a U.S. lackey. The U.S. gives a clear choice to every ruler of a significantly weaker country: do our bidding voluntarily, or involuntarily. The “choice” is yours.

This is the Bully Doctrine.

The Ecuadorean people rightly took this as an offense against their country. Aljazeera put on some Ecuadorean citizens to express their indignation. (Something no U.S. corporate establishment media will do, of course. It's not in their “interests” to show the American people that Ecuadoreans, like all the people the U.S. bullies, are people too.)

“So who cares about Aljazeera? We bomb Aljazeera!” [1]

There's a point worth making right there. The U.S. targets and kills journalists. Not just Aljazeera either. [2]

When Obama announced that he wasn't going to “scramble jets” to get Snowden, I thought, Oh, he's drawing the line at bombing the Moscow airport. Bravo, Barack, I hail your restraint!

But now I think I may have been too quick to give Cool Hand Hussein credit for moderation.

What if they think Snowden is on a plane they can't force down? They already blow up homes and cars all the time on suspicion of “terrorists” inside. Sometimes they guess wrong.

If locking up people like Snowden and Bradley Manning for life doesn't deter future whistleblowers, the Obama regime may well resort to assassinations. This is a regime that assassinated the teenage son of jihadist agitator Anwar al-Awlaki (both Americans) for no discernible reason. And expect a new death penalty law for revealing “classified” information “that harms national security.”

We really shouldn't put it past the U.S. to shoot a plane down over the ocean it suspects is carrying Snowden. Shooting a plane down in the middle of the Atlantic would give them “deniability.”

It's not as if the U.S. has never shot down civilian passenger planes before. It has. And not by accident either.

There is the infamous (or it should be infamous at any rate) shootdown of the Iranian jetliner over the Persian Gulf by the U.S.S. Vincennes in 1988. Saint Ronald Reagan gave the captain of the Vincennes a medal for that crime. Officers on nearby U.S. Navy ships were shocked and horrified witnessing the shootdown of what was an obvious civilian airliner. The U.S. government and corporate propaganda system put out a pack of sick lies to cover up what happened, claiming the jet was dive-bombing and Vincennes and so on. This is all debunked by a detailed article by a U.S. Navy officer in the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Academy, of all places! To no avail; the propaganda is invincible, the truth is down the memory hole. [See “Vincennes: A Case Study," Proceedings Magazine, August 1993, U.S. Naval Institute. Also “Iran Air Flight 655,” Wikipedia.]

Thus do we have a perfect example of official reality as total fraud.

There was TWA Flight 800, shot down by the U.S. Navy over Long Island Sound. (Why would they do that? You'll have to ask them. But there's no doubt they did. Either it was an idiotic accident which they didn't want to admit to, or it was an attempt to fabricate a “terrorist incident” which didn't quite come off, the way painting CIA fall guy patsy Lee Harvey Oswald as a “Castro agent” who “assassinated President Kennedy” was intended to prompt an invasion of Cuba, but only half succeeded- the getting rid of Kennedy half.) See the numerous articles archived at the Village Voice. [Click on highlighted text or search at villagevoice.com for “twa 800.”] Also the Democracy Now story, “Did U.S. Gov’t Lie about TWA Flight 800 Crash? Ex-Investigators Seek Probe as New Evidence Emerges,” at democracynow.org.

Numerous witnesses saw a missile fired from the sea streak up and hit the jet. The U.S. Navy was conducting “exercises” below, and instead of steaming to the crash site ran off the scene as fast as they could. The FBI suppressed their evidence. Amazingly, the CIA got into the act and created a ludicrous cartoon video purporting to “explain” the “accident.” Among other absurdities, they actually claimed that people saw falling flaming debris after the explosion and mistook it for a rising missile streak before the explosion. Who do you believe, the CIA or your lying eyes?

The FBI forced people to change their statements. This is reminiscent of how a CIA officer inside the Los Angeles Police Department browbeat witnesses to the Robert Kennedy assassination in 1968 who saw the CIA conspirator in the polka dot dress that was the trigger for the hypnotized programmed assassin Sirhan Sirhan to fire, part of the CIA's Delta Program. (You can actually hear the tape of the interrogation where this CIA cutthroat detailed to the LAPD bullyrags a poor woman to retract what she saw.) Secret policemen are good at browbeating people into falling in line with official lies.

One plot of the U.S. “security” establishment to get rid of Fidel Castro was to paint a fighter plane in Cuban Air Force insignia and shoot down an American passenger airliner over the ocean in order to blame it on Castro and prompt a U.S. invasion of Cuba. (This became known when internal planning documents were pried loose from the government.)

Finally there are many political assassinations by plane or helicopter that trace back to U.S. operatives or “interests:” the killings of Paul Wellstone, Mel Carnahan, Francis Gary Powers, Warren Commission member Hale Boggs (bumped off when he started voicing doubts about that cover story fairy tale), and Panamanian president General Omar Torrijos, an independent populist (which is intolerable to the U.S. in “its backyard,”) clearing the way for CIA asset Manuel Noriega to take over the country. Also, almost Ted Kennedy, in June of 1964, only seven months after his brother the president was eliminated by the CIA (with FBI, Dallas PD, and U.S. military help). He survived, but the pilot and one of Kennedy's aides did not. (Close but no cigar, CIA!)

This is a nation whose secret police and military assassinated its own President in 1963, (as mentioned above), and has committed many bizarre crimes over the years, so you can't put anything past it.

Oh by the way, Ecuador found a room bug (hidden microphone) in their ambassador's office in their London embassy two weeks ago, the embassy where the British have effectively imprisoned U.S. target Julian Assange. Hey, everybody does it, says Obama and Kerry! (Do the Ecuadoreans bug the ambassadorial offices of the U.S. and Britain? Do they bug and tap the offices and homes of their UN personnel? I doubt it.) At the time the Ecuadorean ambassador was negotiating with the British and kept the discovery quiet until now to not further complicate negotiations.

1] The U.S. deliberately bombed the Aljazeera offices in Kabul and Baghdad several times. And the only reason Bush the Younger didn't bomb their HQ in Doha, Qatar, is because his partner in international crime Tony Blair talked him out of it. The U.S. also kidnapped an Aljazeera employee and locked him up for six years at their Guantanamo Bay military torture center, where they squeezed him for information on Aljazeera and demanded that he be their spy inside Aljazeera in order to get out of Gitmo. He refused, and thus was cut off from his wife and children for six years.

We can only guess how many thousands of less visible “dirty tricks” the U.S. inflicts on Aljazeera. Obviously all their reporters are under constant surveillance.

Furthermore, Aljazeera is a top priority target for the National “Security” Agency.

2] There are a number of infamous examples of U.S. military violent attacks on journalists. There's the infamous helicopter murder of Iraqi journalists employed by Reuters, gruesomely recorded by the helicopter and exposed by Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks (the “collateral murder” video). The helicopter also murdered a father who stopped his van to aid the men shot down in the street, and wounded his children, which the helicopter crew chuckled grotesquely about. There's the deliberate attack on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad in the opening days of the Iraq invasion, killing a Spanish journalist. (A former NSA employee has proven it was premeditated and deliberate. See “DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Military Intelligence Sgt. Reveals US Listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as Target Prior to Killing of Two Journalists in 2003.” ) The U.S. military hated all journalists who were not its “embedded” pets. There are other examples besides.