Chris Hedges: Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

Chris Hedges: Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle-Blowers - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig: Totalitarian systems disempower an unsuspecting population by gradually making legal what was once illegal. They incrementally corrupt and distort law to exclusively serve the goals of the inner sanctums of power and strip protection from the citizen. Law soon becomes the primary tool to advance the crimes of the elite and punish those who tell the truth. The state saturates the airwaves with official propaganda to replace news. Fear, and finally terror, creates an intellectual and moral void.