Daniel Ellsberg: We Are In a National Crisis

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

I believe we are in a national crisis, which justifies and requires acts of unauthorized truth-telling. I am calling for such patriotic whistle-blowing to take place right now.

It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say ‘no’ to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use ‘option’ by America or any other nation.

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states - including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

- quotes by Daniel Ellsberg 

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 America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and 

loose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 

- Abraham Lincoln