A state cannot call itself  free and democratic if members of the Congress or Parliament resort to anonymous channels to voice their opinion for fear of reprisals.

In the US, however, this is the bitter reality, and not only since the genocidal onslaught on Gaza by their protegee or master Israel.

Organizers said the page, called the Congressional Dissent Channel, took inspiration from the State Department’s internal dissent channel, formed in 1971 in the wake of the Vietnam War. It is a classified internal government system in which authors must include their names when offering dissenting views that are confidentially posted.

The website’s homepage states the channel is where aides can “safely and anonymously offer alternative or dissenting opinions to Congressional policies and action.”

The dissident Congressional aides wrote on the website that
“Despite clear and mounting objections from constituents across the country, threats that the war’s regional escalation poses to U.S. interests, and the unconscionable Palestinian civilian casualties numbering in the tens of thousands, Congress has refused to use its leverage to condition arms on curbing human rights abuses, and to compel Israel to broker an immediate ceasefire.”

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