Glenn Greenwald: Take your pick.....
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:12 PM EDT > *Since bin Laden’s death > **The War on Terror and its various civil liberties assaults have > escalated, not been reversed or even slowed down > *By Glenn Greenwald > > In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s summary execution one year ago, many > predicted <http://www.salon.com/2011/05/12/bin_laden_14/> that the War on > Terror would finally begin to recede. Here’s what has happened since then: > > *With large bipartisan majorities, Congress > renewed<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html>the > once-controversial Patriot Act without a single reform, and it was > signed into law by President Obama; Harry Reid > accused<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/harry-reid-rand-paul-spar-over-patriot-act-on-senate-floor/2011/05/25/AGcgWRBH_blog.html>those > urging reforms of putting the country at risk of a Terrorist attack. > * For the first time, perhaps > ever<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html?hp>, > a U.S. citizen was assassinated by the > CIA<http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/01/world/la-fg-awlaki-killed-20111001-57>, > on orders from the President, without a shred of due process and far from > any battlefield; two weeks later, his 16-year-old American son was also > killed<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/anwar-al-awlakis-family-speaks-out-against-his-sons-deaths/2011/10/17/gIQA8kFssL_story.html>by > his own government; the U.S. Attorney General then gave > a > speech<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/05/147992097/attorney-general-holder-defends-targeted-killings-of-americans>claiming > the President has the power to target U.S. citizens for death > based on unproven, secret accusations of Terrorism. > * With large bipartisan majorities, Congress enacted, and the President > signed, a new > law<https://www.aclu.org/national-security/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law>codifying > presidential powers of worldwide indefinite detention and an > expanded statutory defintion of the War on Terror. > * Construction neared > completion<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1>for > a sprawling new site in Utah for the National Security Agency to enable > massive domestic surveillance and to achieve “the realization of the ‘total > information awareness’ program created during the first term of the Bush > administration.” > * President Obama authorized the > use<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-approves-broader-yemen-drone-campaign/2012/04/25/gIQA82U6hT_story.html?hpid=z3>of > “signature” drone strikes in Yemen, whereby the CIA can target people > for death “even when the identity of those who could be killed is not > known.” > * The U.S. formally > expanded<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583012923076634.html>its > drone attacks in Somalia, “reopening a base for the unmanned aircraft > on the island nation of Seychelles.” > * A U.S. drone > killed<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133282/The-boy-sitting-photos-protesting-deadly-US-drone-strikes--Three-days-later-killed--US-drone-says-Jemima-Khan.html>16-year-old > Pakistani Tariq Aziz, along with his 12-year-old cousin, > Waheed, three days after the older boy attended a meeting to protest > civilian deaths from U.S. drones (another of Tariq’s cousins had been > killed in 2010). > * NATO airstrikes continued to extinguish the lives of Afghan > children<http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/the_fruits_of_liberation/>; > in just the last 24 hours, 5 more Afghan children were > killed<http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20517785/five-children-killed-two-incidents-afghanistan>by > the ongoing war. > * The FBI increased its aggressive > attempts<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html>to > recruit young Muslim-American males into Terror plots which the FBI > concocts, funds, encourages, directs and enables, while prosecuting more > and more Muslims <http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/speech_23/> in the U.S. > for crimes grounded in their political views and > speech<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-dangerous-mind.html?pagewanted=all> > . > > Does it sound like the War on Terror and its accompanying civil liberties > erosions are ending, or going in the opposite direction? The morning after > the bin Laden killing, I > wrote<http://www.salon.com/2011/05/02/bin_laden_12/>that the killing of bin > Laden would likely re-ignite American excitement > over militarism and would thus likely further fuel, rather than retard, the > War and its various implications. As always: combatting Terrorism is not > the end of the War on Terror; the War on Terror is the end in itself, and > Terrorism is merely its pretext. > > http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/since_bin_ladens_death/singleton/ > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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