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The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
greenwald.substack.com ^ | 19 Jan, 2021 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 01/20/2021 10:42:51 AM PST by MtnClimber

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.

SNIP

The 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.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: conservativism; domesticterrorism; trump
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1 posted on 01/20/2021 10:42:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Videos calling for investigations of conservatives as domestic terrorists:

Former CIA official Jeremy Bash, now of NBC News

Former Facebook official Alex Stamos

2 posted on 01/20/2021 10:43:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Where are the Oathkeepers?


3 posted on 01/20/2021 10:45:37 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: MtnClimber

There is still this pesky little thing called the 1st Amendment.........


4 posted on 01/20/2021 10:47:09 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: patriot torch
How does an atheist take an oath?
5 posted on 01/20/2021 10:48:14 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: volunbeer

Yeah, like that matters anymore.


6 posted on 01/20/2021 10:50:05 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: SMARTY

https://oathkeepers.org/


7 posted on 01/20/2021 10:53:45 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: TexasM1A

We are going to find out soon...... The “news cycle” right now is hysterical, but they have not deleted the 1st Amendment.

Our founders were smarter than the leftist media mob.


8 posted on 01/20/2021 10:53:51 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: MtnClimber

The new Dementia in Thief already referenced it in his Speech today.

All us Trump Supporting White Supremacist Insurrectionists should be expecting a visit from his Jack Booted Defenders of Democracy just as soon as his Domestic Terrorist Gun Control Legislation gets signed.


9 posted on 01/20/2021 10:56:40 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: MtnClimber

They will drive Trump supporters in the closet.. lol. I don’t see that happening.


10 posted on 01/20/2021 11:00:28 AM PST by glimmerman70
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To: volunbeer

Hopefully you are correct, but I’m thinking they just don’t care anymore, and that is both sides of the aisle.


11 posted on 01/20/2021 11:01:12 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: volunbeer

Good luck exercising any of the Bill of Rights.


12 posted on 01/20/2021 11:09:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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To: Kickass Conservative

They have to come for our guns.

This is for all the marbles.


13 posted on 01/20/2021 11:10:43 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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To: MtnClimber

I posted this vanity last week...same topic...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3925779/posts


14 posted on 01/20/2021 11:12:04 AM PST by Towed_Jumper (Eric Swalwell (CA-D-Rat) used his Fang Wang to Fang Bang, Fang Fang)
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To: TexasM1A

Your right, they don’t care, communist move very fast.there will be a false flag event, shooting to speed gun control and confiscation, the elimination of the 60 votes needed by the senate and stacking the courts, all of them.


15 posted on 01/20/2021 11:15:01 AM PST by saturn
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The War on Domestic Terror will quickly show itself to be a hungry beast that will want to be fed

I fear that you are right.

16 posted on 01/20/2021 11:17:49 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

It is and as far as they are concerned, we are the terrorists. But that is what the people wanted.


17 posted on 01/20/2021 11:19:30 AM PST by sport
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To: volunbeer

“There is still this pesky little thing called the 1st Amendment.........”

First Amendment is gone. Over and done with. Second amendment is next.

The Bill of Rights:

1. Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
2. Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
3. No quartering of soldiers. (Looked that way at the Capitol the last few days)
4. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
6. Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
7. Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
8. Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
9. Other rights of the people.
10.Powers reserved to the states.


18 posted on 01/20/2021 11:59:50 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: SMARTY

How does an atheist take an oath?


With their fingers crossed


19 posted on 01/20/2021 12:22:09 PM PST by centermass_socrates ( So.....Pray for our Republic.)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if they’ll go looking for domestic “terrorists” in Michigan’s UP during the deer hunting season in November.


20 posted on 01/20/2021 12:54:20 PM PST by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true then maybe it isn't.)
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