What is a hero? Merriam Webster offers the following option, in contrast to the pop-culture reference to a thick, meat-laden sandwich: “A person admired for achievements and noble qualities. One who shows great courage.” One only needs to look at the heroes of our young men and women today. Few know or seem to care about those great heroes that have been men and women of honor and valor. The youth of today idolize those athletes, musicians, business icons, and actors predominantly living lives of immorality and doing little, if anything, to make the world a better place or build the kingdom of God, rather the opposite, as they influence, through the media, the false hope that popularity, riches, and power are what life is all about. Read the stories of some true heroes below:
Abolitionists Activists Brave Journalists Founding Fathers Religious Reformers Whistleblowers
Chronological History of all of the above True Heroes
Pat Tillman, Propagandized as NFL American War Hero to Manufacture War Support, is Murdered Before Going Public in Opposition to the Afghan War
Death of Pat Tillman, a complete fairytale that was carefully packaged by the mass media so as to elicit a resurgence of support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at a time when public sentiment had begun to turn against the occupations. During Tillman’s second deployment to Afghanistan he was killed by what the U.S. military initially claimed was a Taliban ambush, but later emerged ...
Dr. David Kelly, Outspoken UN Weapons Inspector Who Had Inspected Iraq Dozens of Times & Claimed No WMD’s, Found Dead
Dr. David Kelly, a British biowarfare expert and key source for many of the newspaper articles doubting the Mobile weapons labs of Iraq (which turned out to be false, is found dead on Harrowdown Hill, near his home in Oxfordshire. Ruled a suicide by the official judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, now a group of British doctors is challenging the Attorney General’s decision not to ...
The Plamegate Affair: Journalist Robert Novak Publicly ID’s Covert CIA Officer Valerie Plame
On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. As a covert operative at the time of the story, the revelation ...
Whistleblower Andrew Wilkie Resigns from the ONA in Protest of the Lies and Propaganda Used to Justify an Attack on Iraq
In blowing the whistle on the Government's use of intelligence to justify war in Iraq, Andrew Wilkie joins a group of people who risk everything to speak out. It's been anything but easy, he tells Caroline Overington. Whistleblowers can pay dearly for doing the right thing. Dr David Kelly, the British weapons expert who told the BBC that intelligence files were doctored in the run up ...
DOJ Legal Ethics Advisor, Jesselyn Radack, Exposes Misconduct in the So-called “American Taliban,” John Walker Lindh 9/11 Prosecution
Jesselyn Radack graduated from Yale Law School in 1995 and joined the Justice Department through the Attorney General Honors Program. She practiced constitutional tort litigation for four years before becoming a Legal Adviser to the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO). On December 7, 2001 - shortly after 9/11, Radack received an inquiry from a Justice Department counterterrorism prosecutor asking about the ethical propriety of interrogating—without a ...
9/11 Whistleblower Coleen Rowley Testifies to Congress about FBI “Mishandling of Intelligence” and “Inaction” on Terrorists
It takes courage to risk one’s career and reputation by becoming a whistleblower, defined as “a person who informs on someone engaged in an illicit activity.” For retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley, remaining quiet after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 was not an option. Time Magazine named her Person of the Year in 2002, along with fellow whistleblowers Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Sherron Watkins ...
FBI Agent Robert Wright Blows the Whistle on FBI for Deliberate Curtailing of 9/11 Investigation of Terror Financier
FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he talks to Congress about this. [Fox News/Reuters, 5/30/02, more] In the 1990s, Special Agent Robert Wright of the FBI's Chicago field office spearheaded an investigation into terrorist financing codenamed Vulgar Betrayal. The investigation uncovered information about Yassin Al-Qadi, a terrorist financier who would go ...
Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is Fired from the FBI for Exposing 9/11 FBI Gross Negligence and Criminal Conspiracy
Sibel Edmonds - In the wake of 9/11, Sibel Edmonds heeded the FBI's call for Middle Eastern language experts to support their counterterrorism unit. Fluent in Turkish and Azerbaijani and conversational in Farsi, she joined the FBI as a translator on September 15, 2001. She soon discovered gross negligence and criminal conspiracy in the FBI and State Department, including deliberately mistranslated documents in the Bureau's possession ...
Osama bin Laden’s “Mountain Fortress”, Shown to the US Public by the Corporate Media, and like Saddam’s Nuclear Weapons, Never Actually Existed
The Lair of Bin Laden is a fictoid that originated in the highly-enterprising British press on November 27th, 2001. The chronology is as follows. On November 26th, the New York Times carried a story based on the account of an a ex-Russian soldier, Viktor Kutsenko, who had served in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties in which he claimed that there had seen an elaborate cave complex in ...
NSA Whistleblowers, William Binney & Kirk Wiebe, Resign Because of the NSA’s ‘Acting in Deliberate Violation of the Constitution’ with Massive Spying
William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe are National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers who worked at the agency in excess of 36 years. As Technical Director, Binney developed a revolutionary information processing system called ThinThread that, arguably, could have detected and prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but NSA officials ignored the program in favor of Trailblazer, a program that not only ended in total failure, but cost ...
