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<http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/24/tyner/index.html> http://tsaresistance.blogspot.com/2010/11/cbs-reporter-peggy-fox-taunts-tsa.html On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Dr Sean > wrote: > > > http://c4ss.org/content/5076 > > Well, it seems Homeland Security and the TSA are classifying the > anti-TSA backlash as a "domestic extremist" movement. A DHS memo from > Janet Napolitano referred to the individuals who tried to "interfere > with" the new airport security regime by objecting to it or opting out, > along with public commentators and organized movements which encouraged > such behavior, as "domestic extremists." She called on the government to > investigate individuals and movements associated with the anti-TSA > backlash. > > And now MSNBC's Chris Matthews is dismissing the anti-TSA movement as a > bunch of right-wingers. Monday night (Nov. 22) Matthews did a segment on > the new back-scatter body scan machines. One of the guests, Ginger > McCall of the Open Government Project and the Electronic Privacy > Information Center, cited evidence that the machines are ineffective at > detecting low-density materials like the powdered explosive carried by > the Underwear Bomber, and simply create an "illusion of security." > > Matthews, outraged, demanded her explanation as to why the government > would deliberately do something that didn't work. McCall responded that > it might have something to do with the fact that a lot of money was > changing hands. When challenged further by the aghast Matthews, she > elaborated that former DHS Secretary Chertoff had ties to the companies > that manufacture the scanner. > > This sent Matthews on a rampage for the rest of the segment, sputtering > demands for names and documentation as McCall, attempting to talk in the > face of his machine-gun interruption, tried to explain the concept of a > revolving door between government agencies and private industry. > > It's pretty obvious, despite Newt Gingrich's hysterics about Matthews as > some sort of ultra-leftist, that the latter is really just a managerial > centrist. The quickest way to provoke Matthews' ire is to suggest that > privileged interests have some sort of structural influence over the > political system, or that there might be some sort of permanent, > institutionalized relationship between big business and big government. > > The kind of "dirty business" that he found so offensive in regard to DHS > is standard practice among "defense" contractors: the manufacturers of > weapons systems colluding with the uniformed services to rig tests and > ensure the large-scale purchase of the systems. Apparently Matthews has > never heard of the Military-Industrial Complex --- either that, or he > regards Eisenhower as a "conspiracy theorist" in the same category as > David Ickes or Lyndon LaRouche. > > Tonight (Wednesday) he continued with a segment on the backlash against > the new TSA procedures --- the body scans and "enhanced pat downs" --- > and rather disingenuously suggested it was just an orchestrated movement > by Republicans pandering to the paranoid Right. The Republicans, he > said, were becoming "soft on defense" and "soft on terror." > > Odd, that's the first I ever heard that Glen Greenwald was a Republican > --- or that all those folks at Alternet are right-wingers. Jeez, you > think the ACLU's getting money from the Koch brothers? > > The same line is being promoted at The Nation ("TSAstroturf > < > http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal>," > > Nov. 23): the whole anti-TSA thing is just a bunch of angry white males > with paranoid anti-government views. For every Republican who cares > about civil liberties only when there's a Democrat in the White House, > it seems, there's a liberal who only objects to police statism when it's > done by Republicans. Of course this is the same The Nation which argued > in the '90s that imperialism wasn't so bad when it was being done for > liberal ends in the Balkans, and whose editor (Kritina van den Heuvel) > celebrated the resurgence of faith in government after 9-11. (Odd, by > the way, that someone who equates fear of government to being right-wing > should have such a convergence of views with Samuel Huntington, who > lamented the increased difficulty corporate elites had in governing the > country because of the post-Vietnam/Watergate loss of trust in government.) > > These people are being disingenuous in implying that the only political > alternatives are plain, vanilla-flavored managerialist liberalism and > the Right, and that anyone who isn't one must be the other. As far as > I'm concerned, this issue is the dividing line between the genuine Left > and liberal goo-goos. > > The opposition to the post-9//11 national security state is not a > right-wing movement. It unites civil libertarians of left and right. The > anti-TSA backlash isn't about right versus left. It's about liberty > versus tyranny. > > -- > Sean Gabb > Director, The Libertarian Alliance (Carbon Positive since 1979) > [email protected] <sean%40libertarian.co.uk> <mailto: > [email protected] <sean%40libertarian.co.uk>> Tel: 07956 472 199 > Skype Username: seangabb > > http://www.libertarian.co.uk > http://www.seangabb.co.uk > http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk > http://www.richardblake.org.uk/ > http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com > http://www.facebook.com/sean.gabb > http://vimeo.com/seangabb > > Wikipedia Entry: http://tinyurl.com/23jvoz > > Buy these novels by Richard Blake: "Conspiracies of Rome" > <http://tinyurl.com/l8uj8r> ("Fascinating to read, very well written, an > intriguing plot" Derek Jacobi); "Terror of Constantinople" > <http://tinyurl.com/n9ugw3> ("Nasty, fun and educational" The Daily > Telegraph); "Blood of Alexandria" <http://tinyurl.com/356mwdr>. "Sword > of Damascus" will be published in June 2011. Buy them for your own > enjoyment. 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