And who would that be, Edward Snowden.
When Nancy and John and other elected government workers join hands to condemn someone along with the chorus of all the scribblers for the establishment journals and TV outlets, you know someone is actually saying something the cool people don't want to hear.
Anita Hill used it in a title of her book about how she courageously stood up for truth about Clarence Thomas. The fact that she had to be outed before she testified is of course irrelevant, as is that she has done rather well out of it all. Not like the White Rose activists and Franz Jägerstätter
One can be celebrated in this world for Speaking Truth to Power, but if you actually "Speak Truth to Power," you get squashed like a bug. If you want to see what the fate of truth to power tellers is look at the White Rose and Franz Jägerstätter not to mention people who merely whispered truth and got into the maw of the Gulag.
The fatuous Bobby Schieffer went after Snowden for not being MLK or Rosa Parks and taking off to save his skin. the Neutralist does not know if the whistleblower is for real or afflicted with any of the character disorders being attributed to him. If he is genuine, we have to give him credit for being smart enough to get out of the way.
The righteous tones of Schieffer et al would be a bit more impressive if their outbursts led to a loss of livelihood somewhere. Be assured, you will you will be seeing his well fed face commenting for years to come.
Why The Neutralist? The term Isolationist implies a narrow Fortress America outlook and is used as an epithet. The term Neutralist does not indicate someone hiding out from the world. No one calls the Swiss isolationists. The Wilsonian world view is old, tired and wrong. Our interventions have been less and less successful and now the failure can no longer be covered up.
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