The new domestic war on terror is coming
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying.
We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” “treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens. This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of “incitement to violence.” It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.
Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology. Liberals have spent so many years now in a tight alliance with neocons and the CIA that they are making the 2002 version of John Ashcroft look like the President of the (old-school) ACLU.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security website, touting a trademarked phrase licensed to it in 2010 by the City of New York, urging citizens to report “suspicious activity” to the FBI and other security state agenciesThe more honest proponents of this new domestic War on Terror are explicitly admitting that they want to model it on the first one. A New York Times reporter noted on Monday that a “former intelligence official on PBS NewsHour” said “that the US should think about a ‘9/11 Commission’ for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the lessons from the fight against Al Qaeda here at home.” More amazingly, Gen. Stanley McChrystal — for years head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and the commander of the war in Afghanistan — explicitly compared that war to this new one, speaking to Yahoo News:
“I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America….I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize.“
Anyone who, despite all this, still harbors lingering doubts that the Capitol riot is and will be the neoliberal 9/11, and that a new War on Terror is being implemented in its name, need only watch the two short video clips below, which will clear their doubts for good. It is like being catapulted by an unholy time machine back to Paul Wolfowitz’s 2002 messaging lab.
The first video, flagged by Tom Elliott, is from Monday morning’s Morning Joe program on MSNBC (the show that arguably did more to help Donald Trump become the GOP nominee than any other). It features Jeremy Bash — one of the seemingly countless employees of TV news networks who previously worked in Obama’s CIA and Pentagon — demanding that, in response to the Capitol riot, “we reset our entire intelligence approach,” including “look[ing] at greater surveillance of them,” adding: “the FBI is going to have to run confidential sources.” See if you detect any differences between what CIA operatives and neocons were saying in 2002 when demanding the Patriot Act and greater FBI and NSA surveillance and what this CIA-official-turned-NBC-News-analyst is saying here:
1 comment:
Purely speculative Opinionated assessment to Article's contents about an implied future injustice to our Good Citizen's; To most civilized, God loving, law abiding citizens, this seems more like a sad joke, an extension of a Broken corrupt system, so seriously, if any folks in Agencies, Law, etc. can't tell bad guys from good, they should get out now, in my opinion! Find other work, go repent for bad decisions.
To promote Fear, Use Intimidation, restrictions on any Constitutional Liberties, this would be the opposite, those whom abuse any power, would be the ones doing the Terrorizing, one would think, right? Enjoy these informative Articles, otherwise best to block out stupidity in our Nation swirling from constant Orwellian Narratives that Everyone with brains can see through, IMO!
Just like no one went to, a present in Authorities Speeches, or even reputedly, during questionable Election for him, it's apparently, becoming obvious, no one will pay much attention to what is attempting to be put in place, in my opinion; Blow-back will happen predict, American Citizen's know Evil Deeds versus Good Intentions! How come Power makes some folks think other's are dumb, will lay down for absurd ideas? Third World Countries have, agreed, but America is a different breed of folks when it comes to principal, IMO! God Bless this Nation and return rightful Leaders to the Helm for Swift Justice to prevail over many known to all, and drunk with power, perhaps also, servants to some Dark Deity, IMO! Amen!
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