Lancing the Boil

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Lancing the Boil
by Ray McGovern
Published on Monday, August 9, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

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The principalities and the powers, including the Fawning Corporate Media, have no hold on citizens like Private Manning, who refuse to live in a moral vacuum.

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I noticed that this Bible verse was chiseled into the marble wall of CIA Headquarters when I began working as an analyst there in April 1963. That was the same month that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned a Letter From the Birmingham City Jail, including graphic, earthy words in describing our duty to expose deceit and injustice:

"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

What Private Manning is alleged to have done with the help of Wikileaks is to puncture that boil of injustice and deceit.

Our defense secretary and joint chiefs chairman do not mind the blood on their hands -- yes, on THEIR hands -- not the hands of Manning or Wikileaks. The Pentagon chiefs are but cogs in an imperial system; large-diameter cogs, but cogs nonetheless.