Crocodile Tears form the Telecoms

Ray on RT (40 seconds)

They get paid royally by NSA by violating the Fourth Amendment and deceiving their clients, and have become accustomed to being held harmless, like the senior U.S. officials who suborn them. They are now being exposed as charlatans and, worse still from their point of view, they are losing business big-time, especially overseas. And so, Please, Please, Mr. President, Help us redeem ourselves; help us now appear law abiding and super-sensitive to privacy concerns.

Sorry, too late. Will be virtually impossible (no pun intended) to rebuild trust in U.S. software and hardware. As for us, very hard to shed tears for the telecoms and Internet providers, who have been complicit in violating the U.S. Constitution simply to frenzy-feed on huge (taxpayer-funded) slop from the government trough.

Kathy Kelly and Ray Witness Before Gates of CIA

 

For more on the Dec. 14 protest at CIA Headquarters, see:

Drone Warfare Protest at CIA Follows Strike on Civilians in Yemen

Kathy was the main speaker. She and Ray were boat-mates, together with other Justice people, on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, summer 2011. This photo of Kathy and Ray reflects not only the joy of solidarity, but the strength Ray derives from having fallen in with prophets who are unafraid – and ending up barricaded from the gates of the Establishment.

Kathy departed the next day for Pakistan to continue her work there and in Afghanistan – not only to stop killer drones, but also (for the umpteenth time) to put her body on the line to honor Isaiah’s: “Comfort Ye, My People” – and not just sing the song.

(Not that Kathy lacks a beautiful voice… So there we were in early July 2011 with other boat-mates on a brutally hot night in an equally hot neighborhood jail in Athens – courtesy of the U.S. embassy and embarrassed but compliant local Athens police. We were singing so beautifully, if loudly, that the neighbors shouted out complaints just as loudly; at which point the sheepish police actually apologized to us and let us all go at 3:30 AM.)

Kathy Kelly is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a truly creative, gutsy community, which needs all the support they can get. See http:/vcnv.org/