COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
Google Admits Working
for Pentagon's Drone Murder Program
Just an innocent
private IT company? Yeah right, it's part of the military-industrial complex,
profiting from empire's endless wars and up to its elbows in blood
"Do no harm or evil," or words to that effect, was
Google's early motto.
I very much liked it, and I liked Google in its earlier
days.
But it became obvious from many activities some years ago
that Google was in the hip-pocket of the American military-security complex.
You could see it in many things, like Google maps, and in
the speed with which Google was able to bring on huge, new projects.
This latest revelation comes as no surprise.
But it is profoundly disappointing that a company once
embracing that motto is now engaged in America's industrial-scale extrajudicial
killing project.
America does many shameful things abroad with its
unnecessary wars and dark plots and coups, but this organized-murder project is
especially repulsive.
Of course, it openly violates every decent human principle
America claims it stands for.
How can it be otherwise when you just openly murder people
by the thousands, people convicted of no crime, people given no rights or legal
help, people against whom there is no legal evidence at all? No judge and no
jury. And, in the effort, you even kill many others besides the (the innocent) people
you aim at?
It reminds us so
sharply of such dark things as the Argentine junta’s program for “disappearing”
people decades ago. Here was a state kidnapping its own citizens, drugging
them, and flying them in planes to drop in the ocean. They killed thousands
that way. Never even informing grieving families that anything had happened to
their loved ones.
It reminds us also of the murder industry that is part and
parcel of modern Israel. A book was recently published about Israel’s 2,700
assassinations. Yes, that’s right, 2,700 assassinations, apart from all the
invasions, wars, and attacks. The book’s facts were gathered from some of the
security service assassins themselves, former members. Again, this organized
mass murder involved all victims guilty of nothing under law.
I suspect the American program was developed in consultation
with Israel. At any rate, it clearly is a riff off of Israel’s work. After all,
the entire enterprise of the Neocon Wars burning and bombing through the Middle
East, the propaganda nonsense of a War on Terror (as though you could fight an
idea or technique), large-scale kidnapping and torture, Guantanamo, and a
galaxy of “black sites” are direct outcomes of America’s dark relationship with
Israel.
We know today that all of America’s large hi-tech and
Internet companies work with outfits like CIA and NSA, suppling them everything
from technical assistance to a constant flow of information on their customers.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and others – they are all in the business,
as we’ve gradually learned from various bits of information.
Even so seemingly benign a concept as Wikipedia today serves
as a platform for an immense disinformation and propaganda war. It’s easy to
observe. Full-blown articles on certain topics appear regularly, and their tone
and intent are unmistakable. They read as though written in Langley, Virginia.
It’s all unethical, of course, but who expects ethics from a
gigantic American monopoly of any kind or, indeed, from the government of the
United States itself?
America holds to its principles only in the sense of a theme
song or jingle for a weekly television show.
