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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
The US government continues its violent persecution of all citizens who express opinions contrary to the foreign policy of the White House. Once again, the country’s authorities unjustifiably harassed military analyst Scott Ritter, raiding his house under the allegation that Ritter is a “foreign agent.” Apparently, any American citizen who disagrees with the policy of war with Russia is considered a “spy” by the government, which shows how Washington is becoming an antidemocratic police state.
The FBI and the New York State Police raided Ritter’s house in Ethlehem Township, south of Albany. The agents remained inside Scott’s house for about five hours, collecting materials they considered suspicious. More than two dozen boxes were removed from the place by the police containing various items meant for investigation, including several electronic devices.
The police presented a search and seizure warrant based on the Foreign Agents Restriction Act. In practice, this means that for the American police, Scott Ritter is officially a “Russian asset.” The investigations are certainly intended to find some kind of incriminating content that would allow a formal charge of espionage and conspiracy against the American state.
This is not the first time that Scott Ritter has been attacked by the authorities of his own country. The analyst has already lost his passport and the right to leave the US after the American police forcibly escorted him off a plane when he was about to go to the Russian Federation in June. Ritter had been invited to participate in the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, where he was expected to give a talk on a panel about multipolarity and geopolitics. However, shortly after boarding the plane, American guards confiscated his passport without providing any explanation, which is a serious violation of basic individual rights.
Now, with the FBI’s harassment, Scott’s situation is even more complicated. Without a passport, he is unable to leave the country to seek political asylum in another state. Having to remain on American soil, he is likely to be increasingly targeted by the Washington’s authorities, who have become well-known for implementing a method similar to psychological torture to coerce citizens who disobey the country’s tacit “rule” of supporting the White House’s aggressive foreign policy.
Ritter is a former officer of the US Marine Corps, having served as an intelligence agent specializing in missiles during the Gulf War. He became known for his work as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, having been an opponent of the US invasion of the country. At the time, Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, and therefore the US military action was unjustified. The judicial and police harassment against him began in the early 2000s precisely in retaliation for his pro-peace stance.
In the same vein, having studied Russian affairs academically, Ritter is deeply familiar with the history of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and has been a vocal critic of the US policy of arming Kiev since 2022. He advocates a peaceful policy between the US and Russia and the establishment of mutually favorable conditions for coexistence. In the same vein, Ritter has used his military expertise to debunk some fallacious Western narratives about the situation on the battlefield.
Since 2022, he has been pointing out how Russian troops maintain complete control over the military situation, with Ukraine having no chance of reversing this scenario. Ritter’s work is seen as a threat by the Western propaganda machine, which constantly needs to spread lies to convince public opinion to continue supporting Ukraine. Ritter’s situation has become even worse since October 2023, when he spoke out against Israel’s violent incursions into Gaza and has become a critic of US support for Netanyahu. The persecution of Ritter has escalated since then, with both the pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel lobbies now targeting him.
In fact, what is happening to Ritter is just one example of how the US is becoming a police state. Democracy and freedom of speech are no longer part of American political principles – at least not on a practical level, being just pointless rhetoric. Unfortunately, Ritter is likely to face even more police and judicial abuse, since without a passport he has no way of leaving the country to escape persecution. The same fate awaits any American citizen who dares to publicly criticize the international crimes committed by Washington.
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gee i’m shocked. $lumville was always a police state built on genocide, slavery and war without end. it has to be ripped to pieces, balkanized and tamed or there will indeed be no future for the tax cattle living there once the bear and the dragon finally stop dithering.
scott ritter is a known and already sentenced child molester and pedophile. he showed his dick to little children, was caught red-handed in flagranti and also admitted in front of court to this.you may google it, if you dont believe me. that he is pro-jewtin and feels harassed is normal. why you people here are crying for that pedophile ritter guy, i dont know.
just another bog standard cia assange style sex smear. they tried to do the same to assange. all us courts are corrupt, compromised tools of intimidation and persecution. none of their proceedings have any credibility or integrity whatever. orwellian thought crime, rigged courts and juries, ludicrous procedures and verdicts – look at what they did with trumpo’s mickey mouse charges. the rule of law/ property rights no longer exist in western countries.
as if the amerikunts care about sex crimes involving children. how many of epstein’s frequent flyers have been prosecuted?
*waves with his hand* “you do not want to investigate the epstein customer list. this are not the padophiles that we seek”
never mind that in sweden, if you even dare look at a female in a way that upsets her, it’s considered psychological rape but that concocted swedish rape charge was so transparent in its intent, i can’t believe the swedes would willingly subject themselves to such ridicule. they’ll never live it down.
the swede’s iq is the lowest in all of europe and rational intelligent thinking is beyond their capabilities!
no, not really. the ukrainians probably take the cake in just absolute lack of pragmatism. every single ukrainian i’ve spoken to is absolutely clueless and lacks any and all understanding of worldly affairs. maybe now that their whole country is an absolute quagmire — some bulbs started flickering.
gooky is sexually repressed puritan hillbilly in omaha…”amerikans are the most prudish in western civilization they sublimate their desire by chasing the dollar. amerika is gigantic a gigantic mistake”. sigmund freud
false gooki–he was st up by fbi and convicted based on a phone call with fbi agent—u amerikans are losers–morons
oh, you really think so? i think he’s always been a thorn in the government’s side and some unnamed agency downloaded pics onto his computer. now, guess which agency.
and how is that relevant to todays situation? stupido!!
it is obvious on this trajectory that, yes, it will only stop with the total dissolution of the government as it is. the people will stay in denial until everything has crumbled around them and still not understand or even try to understand. the people who hated trump and call him a liar ignore the lack of damage to his ear and still go with the lie that he was shot at all. it is pathetic.
america is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between: oscar wilde
i know someone who was declared a ward of the state illegally to rob his family of their wealth… was being abused and neglected in his nursing home(s) for 3 years… his children fought for visitation but were banned and had to pay to see him… and when the media got involved and did a story that was unfavorable to the court?… they sent the cops after the children, house arrested them and stole property as means of intimidation and retaliation…
and worse still the father and retired u.$. naval officer was made dead 2 weeks later after the raid of the childrens home. born in the u.$.a. !…
what a crap! if he is a spy, than he is the us spy, because he is meeting with important persons in russia, not in the us where he is officially retired from the service. what secrets can he give to russia? that biden is grandpa dementor and harris is stupid? great secret! no, they fear that 1 word of truth ruins 1000 words of lies. they want him to shut up for freedom and democracy’s sake.
s.r. has never been off the us ‘alt-media’ (lol) using exactly the same ‘praise the enemy’ methodology each time to gain favour. aside from rus he has been scratching away at the prc weapon systems as well as hezbollah and iran.
perhaps he was pulled off the plane to st petersburg as the cia found out at the last minute that the svr got wind of his activities and might have arrested him if he flew to r.f?
there really isn’t any getting around ritter never acknowledging that the us war machine was, is and always will exist to kill, loot and burn on behalf of the us financial elite. martin luther king’s “beyond vietnam” speech is what got him killed by the us army. sixty years on, ritter has never once made any serious criticism of us imperialism.
it was the masons in their various branches conspiring. every position of power the us government is either masons or jews, and even back then it was mostly that way. the masons in the fbi, the warden, the cia, and the media and local agencies to run cover. masons again. the masons are talmudite occultists too after all.
“ritter has never once made any serious criticism of us imperialism”
may be he is not a suicidal and know the world where he lives. after all he may be arrested and go to prison for years. i don’t claim he is said something new for me, i don’t watch his broadcasts, if to be honest, but it’s obvious that he is getting troubles for his opinion. mind crime or thoughtcrime as orwell wrote, you can translate it better.
nonsense. ritter’s just a thorn looking for some gov’t. technocrat to stick.
i certainly don’t wish him ill but frankly, he’s much like gonzalo lira, very principled to his own detriment and always thumbing his nose at kafka’s castle, anyway he can. maybe it was a vendetta thing over iraq. anyway, it’s no mistake that he and lira were tied up in some existential psycho-duel. like minds often attract.
ritter’s looking for a fight in the courts, by his own words. i wish him luck.
thoughtcrime. saying facts = to harm yourself. gonzalo lira is great example. in so free and the most civilized part of our world he had no right to name nazis as nazis, because “this is extremely dangerous to our democracy” like the us tv stations love to repeat. if this is not totalitarianism, then what is it?
close but no cigar, murika, it’s just theatre! s.r. (cia) has spun this smo from the start; rus were going to defeat ukranato in ‘weeks’, ‘months’, err ‘years’..? his rhetoric was parroted by lavelle et al as nato built and r.f. floundered.
s.r. heaped undue praise (that’s his schtick) on (1) a misfiring smo yet to secure donbass and (2) r.f. forces that ‘disappeared’ their few effective leaders and now can’t defend rus borders from drones and nazis.
good riddance s.r, wake up r.f!
“nato has built”? what has nato built? given that krusty the klown of kiev didn’t throw in the towel and hightail it to florida or tel aviv in 2022, what precisely was going to speed up the expulsion of the armed forces of the ukraine from donbas? the ukrainian army was enormous, dug in for eight years on defensive lines in donbas, and receiving the maximum possible intelligence support and resupply from nato.
and tulsi gabbard is receiving special attention by the states various supervising entities, last about the special attention she receives when flying. and musk is hunted since he is all in favour of free speech and against companies banding together to cease using certain channels that is too much free speech for their liking!
elon musk isall in favour of free speech? cocaine is a hell of a drug.
musk is a setup to play the good guy until he is needed no one will be able to get so far without the secret service support.
he is in group of conservatives who opposing a bit in some questions to group of liberals. it makes him looking like he is saying only the truth when criticizing sodomites (liberals). every normal people dislike sodomy, but if to look at internal policy of both groups, they are the same. liberals want to rob via brainwashing (“democratic values”, soros, promotion of lgbt) and less with military, conservatives — to rob with military and less with brainwashing.
said by the country with more political prisioners in the world history , should move it to the comedy seccion
snowden free i russia–amerikunts tried to execute assange…you incarcerate more per capita than any nation in history
you have less brain than a chicken
look at yourself, you’re an earthworm.
“east german stasi could only have dreamed of having a police state like usa”. thomas drake
stupid comment, to be frank stupid as subhuman fuck/ … east germany was able to build a wall, unlike trump . us police,my ass,they are lowbrainers, without any education….u need more training to work at shit donalds than being police officer in americunt. just as bad as russia.
no not becoming, it has been a police state since the fall of the soviet union, it happened within a year or 2. and that’s because they were planning it all along. the soviet union was too much of a competitor and they had to appease the indigenous population, once that threat was gone, gloves are off.
personally i would define a foreign agent as anyone who would wave the flag of a foreign country in their own legislative assembly. just sayin’….