What The EMA Leak Tells Us About... Whistleblowers

It's bad news

They’re not nearly as common as you think. Caught between an apathetic public, a corrupt government, and a litany of corrupt, BS laws like “trade secrets” (translation: freedom to keep crimes secret), “NDAs” (translation: freedom to keep crimes secret) and “industrial espionage” - whatever the hell that is (translation: freedom to keep crimes secret), with zero protections by obviously criminal politicians in on the shindig, whistleblowers are extremely rare.

The idea there are a army of whistleblowers ready to jump out of nowhere and blow the whistle after an attack of conscience or newly discovered atrocity is an old trope, believed not just by the public, but those who declare themselves of higher learning.

Academics Fall For This BS

On a train to London, I chance encountered an academic, who put forth the argument there was no way the Twin Towers attack was an inside job by the US government. He declared - in what he thought was a robust way - that there was absolutely no way a secret of that scale could be kept secret. If he had a pipe, he’d have been puffing on it.

Me, having first hand knowledge, knew the fatal flaw in his argument. The fallacy of the omnipotent whistleblower who is always there. And I was quick to destroy his argument. I structured my rebuttal thusly:

I asked did he read of Edward Snowden, and does he think the existence of the worldwide mass surveillance is real? He said yes. He was clearly thinking Snowden - as a whistleblower - was proving his point.

I then asked him, does he know how many people the NSA employ in one building? He admitted he did not. I told him 150,000. He concurred it was a plausible number.

‘Now multiply that by the number of buildings and the number of nations’. He looked at me sternly. He had clearly come up with some huge figure but I could see he didn’t believe it. Yes, millions are employed in an intel capacity worldwide.

‘Let us say it’s a few million’, I offered as a concession. He agreed. ‘Edward Snowden is one in a few million’. He nodded again. Then I set the trap.

‘PATRIOT Act was established in 2001 and was the legal grounds for mass surveillance by the NSA, although the NSA had existed for decades by then. Snowden didn’t come forward until 2013, over 12 years later. You’re telling me across 14 nations and roughly 3 million people it took 12 years for one whistleblower to come forward?’

He furrowed his brow. He said yes, and even added ‘more than 14 nations’.

I replied with the trap closure: ‘Assuming 9/11 was done by only a few thousand people, how many years until that secret becomes public knowledge?’.

At which point he became incensed. He knew the answer was ‘never’, because if it takes 1 person to emerge after 12 years out of more then 3 million people to expose mass surveillance that was visible in over 14 nations, then there never was going to be any whistleblower for any sort of inside job for 9/11 which occurred in one nation only requiring a few thousand people.

It was at this point he refused to debate me. His overt trust in this magical, omnipotent, always watching whistleblower who would always risk death to expose the truth was destroyed. We didn’t even get to the part of lack of media coverage.

There are so many more criminal secrets of which we don’t hear of. Some acts are too minor to warrant the risk of whistleblowing: an NHS hospital fudging target statistics, a government bureaucracy lying on paperwork, employees normalising abuse of patients in subtle, underhanded ways that are hard to prove.

Whistleblowers can gaslight themselves into thinking it’s normal, or make the ‘well someone else would have reported it already if it was criminal’ type logic.

The odds are heavily set against the whistleblower. The public don’t care, the law is injurious and harsh, and there is little benefit besides some small, tiny respite of the conscience. Snowden had to leave his family behind, and jump 3 countries, living in a foreign land in terror he could get kidnapped. Assange is in jail. Abandoned.

The Truth Is: There Is No Magical Whistleblower

What you have are a few brave souls who step forward. Ironically I’m not one of them. I actually reported on the EMA leak, because I recognised the media failure to pick up a vital piece of information, which struck me as malice as it hurts their financial interests with pharmaceutical companies.

“I’m just the messenger” is a phrase often used to indicate someone should not be blamed for the bad news. I anticipate the public rejected the message because it dared criticise their ‘holy grail’ vaccine god which they were brainwashed - for that is the appropriate term for the 24/7 non-stop media manipulation and distortion of the facts - into thinking was the only way out.

Imagine being told the only cure to your fatal disease was some all-or-nothing flight-of-fancy drug. The idea there could be other treatments, other cures, other approaches is bashed out of your head by force. A vaccine passport. Imagine if it was called ‘a drug passport’ where you had to take a specific drug to enter a country?

When it is phrased like that, it sounds Orwellian - and it is. It is compelled medical tyranny. No other term. Your freedom of movement should not be exploited to dictate what shots you must take and how many.

Whistleblowers Are Rare: Cherish Them

I think the public don’t appreciate the heroism of some people in coming forward. If they don’t have Assange or Snowden levels of fame, then they’re not even thought about.

The public get more of what they appreciate. If only you could appreciate your whistleblowers as much as - or more than - your footballers, basketballers, baseball players, perhaps you would see many more, more eager to take that risk due to encouragement.

Massive overhauls of the law are required. Trade secrets, NDAs, ‘espionage’ acts should not trump public safety or whistleblowing. But they nearly always do. Even if courts acknowledge the validity of the concerns, they will, like evil bastard robot drones, still slap a hefty fine of breaching ‘trade secrets’.

Oh, the trade secret was child murder and slavery? Oh well that’s a protected trade secret, so time to pay out for their losses. Trade “secrets” shouldn’t even be a thing. Businesses are not intel agencies, and even if they were, they are not immune to the moral imperative of the public.

BLM tore down a city when George Floyd died. Where’s the outrage for Snowden or Assange’s mistreatment?