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Especially in such polarized times, there's cause to be wary of threats to our liberties from a national security regime with expanded domestic powers.he Biden administration is planning to use the full force of the federal government in pursuit of a new war. Its target? American citizens.This countering “domestic violent extremism” effort, declared in the wake of the latest Capitol riot, represents the real-world counterpart to the corporate media rhetoric about the need to “deprogram,” “de-ba’athify,” and drone the Deplorables.If this is a dangerous political witch hunt masquerading as a national security imperative, it should disturb every American. Half of...

Democrats say Muslim terrorists aren’t terrorists, but their political opponents are. The Biden administration responded to protests against its stolen election by embedding a domestic extremism office into the National Security Council. The man in charge of making it happen, Joshua Geltzer, had previously denied that Black Lives Matter was a terrorist threat and had attacked the Trump administration’s response to Antifa and BLM violence in Portland. That means that the only domestic extremists the NSC will be fighting are Republicans. Even while the Biden administration is preparing to double down on Obama’s abuse of the national security state to...