The New War On Terror

Tuesday 19 January 2021 - Filed under Authoritarianism + Big Tech + Constitution + Terrorism + War on Terror

I wonder what kind of soul crushing dirt Greenwald has on his Substack today?

Calls for a War on Terror sequel — a domestic version complete with surveillance and censorship — are not confined to ratings-deprived cable hosts and ghouls from the security state. The Wall Street Journal reports that “Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.”

Meanwhile, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) — not just one of the most dishonest members of Congress but also one of the most militaristic and authoritarian — has had a bill proposed since 2019 to simply amend the existing foreign anti-terrorism bill to allow the U.S. Government to invoke exactly the same powers at home against “domestic terrorists.”

Why would such new terrorism laws be needed in a country that already imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world as the result of a very aggressive set of criminal laws? What acts should be criminalized by new “domestic terrorism” laws that are not already deemed criminal? They never say, almost certainly because — just as was true of the first set of new War on Terror laws — their real aim is to criminalize that which should not be criminalized: speech, association, protests, opposition to the new ruling coalition.

Goddammit!

*Throws phone through the window*

Just what we fucking need. The War On Terror, the very same one that Democrats vehemently objected to during the Bush years because of the many rights-busting reaches of government power it enabled, being brought home and weaponized. Tactics that were once considered by liberals too harsh to use against Muslims worldwide are now perfectly acceptable to use here in America, against Americans.

Fuck all of you who cheer this on.

 

2021-01-19  »  madlibertarianguy