Is It Unpatriotic To Question Authority ???

Here is a great synopsis of Seymour Hersh's career which discusses the recent Turkish false-flag sarin attacks in Syria and the lies we were told about Iraq's WMD:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-media-repeats-iraq-wmd-folly-with-syria/188382/

Instead of questioning members of the Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and other U.S. intelligence officials, the mainstream media acted more as stenographers than government watchdogs, resulting in a U.S. invasion in Iraq.

It wasn’t necessarily the journalists’ fault. Some journalists who wrote for establishment outlets like AP reportedly did try to expose the true costs of the war and the real reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq — for example, access to oil and other resources — but the mainstream media outlets refused to publish these “un-patriotic” pieces.

Thanks to the work of whistleblowers and independent journalists from around the globe, as well as outlets such as WikiLeaks, bits and pieces of what was really happening in Iraq began to surface. But after these pieces were published in alternative media outlets, mainstream media outlets joined the U.S. government and intelligence officials in smearing these truth-tellers, as in the case of Julian Assange.

Since President Woodrow Wilson created the U.S. Committee on Public Information in 1917, every conflict the U.S. has been a part of has been sold to the American public by terrifying Americans with images and startling statistics that, if the media did their job, would likely be proven false, or at least exaggerated.

“Whether those in journalism want to admit or not, fear is present in every newsroom,” Dan Rather said. The fears include losing one’s job, being labeled “unpatriotic” by the U.S. government and the public, and worrying that asking the tough questions could affect national security.

The exact same thing, on a grander scale, now is occurring under the administration of Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions. We no longer have an independent press which challenges the crimes of our government. The MSM are lap dogs for the powers that be.

And what is even worse is that the so-called "intelligence community" does NOT provide truthful assessments of the threats to our nation. Instead they seem to have been co-opted by warmongers who turn lies into "facts" which our Presidents can use to wage aggressive warfare under the guise of humanitarian intervention.

And you want another Constitutional convention? Sheesh !!!

By the way, I have a copy of John Pilger's documentary The War You Don't See. It's damn good and quite revealing, and I highly recommend it. Hersh and Pilger are two of the few remaining great investigative journalists.