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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.

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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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To: EQAndyBuzz

“First Amendment is gone. Over and done with.”

Not entirely, unless it is actually stricken from the doc’s. I’m going all out on Facebook and so far, no repercussions. I did piss of my liberal Roman Catholic church Deacon of an uncle though, but that was just between he and I.


21 posted on 01/20/2021 12:59:35 PM PST by equaviator (If it seems like it's too bad to be true then maybe it isn't.)
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To: centermass_socrates

And asbestos gloves


22 posted on 01/20/2021 1:40:08 PM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: equaviator

Sure they can, however, they have to wear the antler hat.


23 posted on 01/20/2021 4:17:53 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: patriot torch

One of the Oathkeeper heads got arrested for the Capitol thing and it was reported that FBI was drilling down into the membership


24 posted on 01/20/2021 10:00:20 PM PST by terart
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To: terart

Yes, I seen that.

Its amazing that a person hired by the government, demanded to take an oath, and then interogated for taking that oath to heart, by abiding by it. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

But then again, lets be honest. The oath they demand is not for country but to them.

And as long as they can demand obedience to them, then they can program the subjects to do as the deepstate demands.

And when they are exposed....

Just ask Julian Asange.


25 posted on 01/20/2021 10:12:33 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: MtnClimber
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.

At the doctors today, up on the rack discussing coming repairs, I was at peace with my mortality. If they insist on bringing the proverbial hill for us to die on so be it. My oath didn't end upon leaving active service and unlike this usurping assclown I take oaths seriously.

I see no more glorious cause than defending our republic from these thieving swinish autocratic enemies of freedom.

26 posted on 01/21/2021 11:23:55 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (The scam of the century and nary a journalist anywhere, just propaganda "news" muppets.)
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