Ordeals of Whistleblowers in a "Democracy"
by Victor Wallis
The more extreme the crimes of state, the more the state seeks to shroud them in secrecy. The greater the secrecy and the accompanying lies, the more vital becomes the role of whistleblowers – and the more vindictive becomes the state in its pursuit of them.
Whistleblowers are people who start out as loyal servants of the state. Their illusions about the state’s supposed moral agenda – and the wholeheartedness of their own patriotic commitment – make them all the more shocked when they discover evidence of the state’s wrongdoing.
Detail
of a poster calling for the release of Chelsea Manning, who leaked U.S.
military and State Department documents—including footage showing the
massacre of civilians in Iraq—to the media outlet Wikileaks. (Credit:
CourageToResist)
of a poster calling for the release of Chelsea Manning, who leaked U.S.
military and State Department documents—including footage showing the
massacre of civilians in Iraq—to the media outlet Wikileaks. (Credit:
CourageToResist)
