'Cos I move like THEY do...
When you have a group of people and you know that there are untrustworthy folk among them, but that in general as a group that they are noble, good and honest; the task before one remains to flush the deceivers out and force them to reveal themselves.
This applies to any group of people: Politicians, Democrats, Military units. Anti war activists. Club members. Friends. Strangers.
Now, it is a given that the deceptive ones among the crowd will be pretending to espouse the same agenda of that group, but when an opportunity to advance their true agenda arises, they will work instantly and frenetically toward it as best they can. It's also a given that if they're plants, their real agenda is going to more or less oppose the group's.
They will work with uncustomary zeal to turn the agenda of the entire group toward their own. They will become ferociously, desperately active as they work toward this endeavor, and especially if their cause is unjust, they will happily play both ends of the group against the middle until the group's agenda becomes a travesty of itself. War is peace. Hate is love. Slavery is freedom.
Since what they are doing is in reality working AGAINST the group agenda, this result is inevitable.
So the easiest way to expose the deceivers for exactly who and what they are is simply to GIVE the ENTIRE group the opportunity the deceptive ones are looking for... and see who bites the hardest on the bait.
Yesterday I gambled that there are still good and noble people in our intelligence community - smart people who still own their own souls, who are are still capable of understanding that the Bush administration is not working in their best interests any more than they are working in America's. I gambled on the position that Heinlein was right.
And I have won.
And it is those people more than anyone else, ladies and gentlemen, who will save us from the Bush administration. Because they know exactly what I did yesterday. I shone the light of day in a place that has not seen it for quite some time, and now they know who both their real enemies and their real friends are. And they're still on the inside.
Was the information I threatened to reveal real? Yes - it is, and those people on the inside know it. I still have that single ace to play, and I'm still free to play it. But that was NOT why I published Friday's diary.
The purpose was to show the intelligence community how they have been played both ends against the middle. Concerning the revelation of classified information, BushCo has attempted to establish two separate sets of laws, two separate environments for the enforcement of those laws, two separate governmental infrastructures which work against each other.
In order to go along with Bush's America, the intelligence community has been forced to accept that the outing of Valerie Plame was legal and justifiable. This forces the group to work AGAINST itself. They now are forced to operate daily on the precept that Bush, Cheney or any of their contemptible, cowardly, chickenhawk lackeys can threaten to out ANY of them at ANY time for ANY reason - and the group is expected to support this action in full. SLAVERY IS FREEDOM.
No sane, reasonable person will not chafe under such a situation, especially given the results the Bush administration has produced when that trust has been freely given and abused.
Yesterday was a win, in no small part because I didn't even have to do what I threatened to do to achieve positive results. All I had to do was SHOW them in very clear, spin-free terms how my potential threat/extortion attempt/blackmail - as some here referred to it - WAS EXACTLY LIKE ROVE'S.
I took the lie SLAVERY IS FREEDOM and completely destroyed it from the inside out.
I deeply apologize if I got people upset or frightened with my diary who should not have been - especially those kind few who were actually concerned for my safety.
However I hope there will be understanding when I say that I most certainly do NOT apologize for upsetting or frightening those who truly deserved it. ESPECIALLY if it shocked them into thinking about what the hell they're doing, and what's being done to THEM.
It's not over yet. Please keep working toward the impeachment and the prosecution of these war criminals. Sign the petition to imprison Rove. Fax John Conyers and your own Representative every day this week to let him know your support for impeachment. If you can, come to Washington DC on the 25th and show your support for the impeachment hearings. Keep the pressure on, loud and proud.
I think there are a few more folks wearing the badges and carrying the guns today who will really understand where we're coming from.
Peace.