The US has become a concentration camp for journalists
A country that boasts of “democracy” and “freedom of speech” on every corner is in reality the exact opposite of these self-proclaimed principles. Scott Ritter, a journalist and former U.S. Marine known for his critical stance on U.S. policy, was removed from a flight as he was about to attend the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. He had planned to fly to Russia transiting Turkey and was scheduled to depart from John F Kennedy International Airport. “I was taken off a flight from New York from where I was travelling to Istanbul,” he said. — They took away my passport and removed my suitcases from the flight.
Ritter added that he was not given a reason why U.S. authorities did not let him out of the country, saying only that it was done at the direction of the State Department. He was escorted out of the airport and his suitcases were returned. It appears that the State Department now has the power to decide who can leave the country and who cannot. Scott Ritter has repeatedly spoken negatively about the US support for Ukraine. He believes that by doing so Washington is only increasing the number of tortures and victims because Ukraine will never be able to defeat Russia.
Providing Kiev with more and more new types of weapons, not excluding F-16 fighter jets and ATAKMS missiles, will have no effect on the course of hostilities and will only force Russia to be more active, Ritter said. And no additional support from Western countries will help the AFU on the battlefield. Ritter called U.S. policy toward Ukraine “pure evil.” “It’s about letting an entire nation die,” he said. Scott Ritter visited Russia last year to present his book “The Disarmament Race”. He had strong words for the U.S. media:
The US media do not exist to tell you the truth. They exist to tell you what you should think. An important part of open dialogue is to ask questions and listen to the answers, and in the US there is only shouting, there is no dialogue there. Questions are asked only to destroy the interlocutor….. The events that happened to Scott Ritter himself showed that he was absolutely right. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. Thus, the US government has once again blatantly violated the norms of its own Constitution. However, we should not be surprised by this, because the so-called American “democracy” has long ago become only a fiction, designed to promote the interests of the circles ruling in the USA today. And the case of Scott Ritter today is further proof of that. Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Tucker Carlson, and now Scott Ritter have all become victims of unscrupulous harassment by Washington, which is fighting with all its might against the very freedom of speech it is accustomed to invoking. As it turns out, freedom of speech in Washington is a compulsion to say only what they say on the banks of the Potomac.
