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Robert Parry is a longtime investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 to create an outlet for well-reported journalism that was being squeezed out of an increasingly trivialized U.S. news media.
a comment in response to your piece Obama’s “openness” and deceit:
Robert Parry, you write, “With all its talk about “public diplomacy†and “information warfare,†the Obama administration seems intent on using half-truths and falsehoods to herd the people into a misguided consensus rather than treating them like the true sovereigns of the Republic, as the Framers of the Constitution intended with the explicit phrase “We the People of the United States.—
You’ve misunderstood that phrase, “We the People”. The “Framers” were quite openly saying that they only considered themselves (the ruling class) to be fully human, and that they considered the majority of the human beings on the continent (including women, blacks, the indigenous “savages”, and poor European-Americans) as less-than-human, unpeoples, unfit to make public policy. The Framers were hostile to popular democracy. They never considered peasants sovereign. They assumed power and decision making was the exclusive prerogative of the ruling class, not the bewildered herd.