Mainstream Media is the Voice of US "Shadow Government".

Is there a shadow government at work, behind the scenes, in this country?

I have come to believe there is.

There are entirely too many national secrets leaked to the press than one would expect under normal day-to-day operations of our government.

We know, for instance, that a large number of hold-overs from the previous democrat administration still fill positions in agencies such as the CIA, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and others, including the Department of Defense, meaning, of course, the Pentagon.

Information is being leaked to press outlets from these agencies, and departments, which would lead one to think there is a systematic method of revealing the secrets of the this government, and this administration, which is planned and coordinated so as to cause the most embarrassment, and the most damage, to the Bush Administration and... to the US military.

There is a “shadow war” being waged, in the US, between the political left and the political right, between Democrats and Republicans. It is a war of words and deeds. A war which remain just below the visible spectrum. It is a war, which claims lives as well as reputations. It does immeasurable harm to this country and it gives aid and comfort to the enemies of this country.

Unfortunately, there are elements of the press, in the US, which see nothing wrong with aiding the enemies of the US. It says something about the decline of character, honor, and loyalty to the United States among organizations, which hasten to take part in such loathsome activities.

The FBI should be charged with a complete investigation, of all departments of the US government, for those who leak US secrets to anyone, including the press. Those people should be brought up on charges of treason and sedition, tried, and sent to prison.

The mainstream media in the US must be brought to heel. If that takes an abridgement of “freedom of the press”, then I am all for it. Freedom demands responsibility. Without responsibility one cannot be allowed freedom. For one, anyone, or any organization, to use that freedom to abuse fellow Americans and place them in danger, is reprehensible.

Just because an outlet of the press, in the US, does not care for the President of the country, or the political party in power at the moment, is no excuse to place the lives of American men, women, and children in danger. If efforts to root out the “leakers of classified information” to the press calls for sending reporters, and editors to jail, then so be it.

You may not like it, but America is at war! The fact that some Americans are not supportive of the war gives no one the right to place America in danger by aiding her enemies.

There was a time in this country when we shot people for that. There was a time in this country when treason was called treason… and if you were caught at it you were tried and you went to prison… no matter who you were.

We have become far too permissive of disloyal behavior. We have become far too permissive of elements in our society that would bring this country down. There must be limits and the law must enforce those limits.

I began this post by asking a question concerning the existence of a shadow government in the US. The answer, as I have said, is… that I believe there is… and the mainstream media, in the US, is the voice of that “shadow government”.

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