The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is

by nagums • 6 years ago

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Hickfang• 6 years ago

Lately, I've come to suspect these terror scares are home grown plots by the state security apparatus, designed to justify their existence.

cheese_van• 6 years ago

Sadly, Greenwald is correct.

I fear that claims that a "domestic terrorism" threat exists will create an industry that at some point, will be too large and profitable to dismantle.

monkeydreams4• 6 years ago

Sadly, Greenwald is correct.

I disagree. He has, in my opinion, fallen for the very "creeping extremism" that he once decried. He does not appear to think rationally any more about the level of threat he perceives, nor of the source or logical outcome of the scenarios which play through his head.

The whole Hunter Biden laptop situation is a great example. He decried the fact that media was not covering the allegation, despite the leaps of faith were necessary to consider these allegations in good faith. He ignored the disparity of the threats - the risk that Hunter Biden might be trading off his family name versus the risk that white supremacists might attack the national capital in an attempt to overturn democracy.

I fear that claims that a "domestic terrorism" threat exists will create an industry that at some point, will be too large and profitable to dismantle.

Cool. A reasonable fear on the face of things. I mean, I cannot see how, but it is a reasonable fear I suppose. However the problem which raises its ugly head is that Greenwald appears to not give a shit that domestic terrorism just took a large swing at the basis of US democracy, or that support for these terrorists appear to be well entrenched in the police, military and political classes. I mean, by all means avoid the profiteering that the Republicans brought to the threat of Muslim terrorism, but by no means ignore the fact that there exists a large pool of disenfranchised white men who are eager to throw another punch in the direction of their perceived enemies.

disgruntledphd22• 6 years ago

gnored the disparity of the threats - the risk that Hunter Biden might be trading off his family name versus the risk that white supremacists might attack the national capital in an attempt to overturn democracy.

The capitol attack took place two months after Greenwald's article, I really don't see how he was supposed to know about this.

noxer3• 6 years ago

the risk that Hunter Biden might be trading off his family name versus the risk that white supremacists might attack the national capital in an attempt to overturn democracy.

Aah that hurts man... I almost wanted to correct you but I convinced nothing will convince you anymore. Consider yourself a victim of the media. Greenwald therefore was right.

MauroIksem• 6 years ago

Greenwald has completely lost the plot.

dragonwriter2• 6 years ago

The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers

No, they haven't, and you can tell this because Greenwald can't point to a single extension of domestic police powers. All he can point to is people talking, in the future tense, about applying existing domestic police powers against a long-recognized threat which, out of political favoritism, has not in the past been targeted the way other (often less dangerous) domestic threats have been.

There are certainly some legitimate grounds for concern about that, too, but they are bypassed and obscured in Greenwald’s dishonest and tiresome anti-“liberals” partisan fearmongering.

The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming

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