Настроение:	sick
Музыка:	Slowdive -- Slowdive (2017)
Entry tags:	fascism, usa

The New Domestic War on Terror
Прекрасное, от Гленна Гринвальда
(по основной профессии, антивоенного
правозащитника при Сноудене и Челси Мэннинг)

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

про то, как сотрудники спецслужб, возглавлявшие
"войну с террором" при Буше и Обаме, готовятся
применять к трампоидам ту же тактику, что применяли
к Игилу, с одобрения администрации Байдена.

...Calls for a War on Terror sequel - a domestic version
complete with surveillance and censorship - are not
confined to ratings-deprived cable hosts and ghouls from
the security state. The Wall Street Journal reports that
"Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing
a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to
create a White House post overseeing the fight against
ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing
funding to combat them."

Why would such new terrorism laws be needed in a country
that already imprisons more of its citizens than any other
country in the world as the result of a very aggressive
set of criminal laws? What acts should be criminalized by
new "domestic terrorism" laws that are not already deemed
criminal? They never say, almost certainly because - just
as was true of the first set of new War on Terror laws -
their real aim is to criminalize that which should not be
criminalized: speech, association, protests, opposition to
the new ruling coalition.

* * *

Собираются сажать (причем без суда, демократами уже
внесен законопроект, который будет применять к диссидентам
те же нормы военного правосудия, что действовали в Ираке и
Афганистане) за "подстрекательство к насилию", в
частности, за сомнения в легитимности американских выборов.

...First, much of the alarmism and fear-mongering is being
driven by a deliberate distortion of what it means for
speech to "incite violence." The bastardizing of this
phrase was the basis for President Trump's rushed
impeachment last week. It is also what is driving calls
for dozens of members of Congress to be expelled and even
prosecuted on "sedition" charges for having objected to
the Electoral College certification, and is also at the
heart of the spate of censorship actions already
undertaken and further repressive measures being urged.

Гринвальд живет в Бразилии. Понятно, что из Бразилии оно видится
гораздо пакостнее, чем изнутри, потому что весь объем говна,
которое изливается из масс-медиа, снаружи выглядит более
выпукло. Но не удивлюсь, что прав тут как раз он, а не
местные.

По крайней мере американские масс-медиа успели незаметно
обойти газету Правда, и сейчас приближаются к журналу Корея;
с Байденом в роли Ким Ир Сена. Что интересно (хотя
и предсказуемо), Фокс Ньюс выступает таким же оплотом
ортодоксии, как и NYT и CNN.

...John Heileman at MSNBC compared Biden's speech to Abe
Lincoln's second inaugural, and suggested that the sight
of "the Clintons, the Bushes, and the Obamas" gathered for
the event was like "the Marvel superheroes all back in one
place" (this was not the first post-election Avengers
comparison to be heard on cable). Rachel Maddow talked
about going through "half a box of Kleenex" as she watched
the proceedings. Chris Wallace on Fox said Biden's
lumbering speech was "the best inaugural address I ever
heard," John Kennedy's "Ask Not" speech included. The
joyful tone was set the night before by CNN's David
Challen, who said lights along the Washington Mall were
like "extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America."

Заканчивает Гринвальд обычным в последнее время
призывом объединиться с правыми для борьбы с
номенклатурой.

Neoliberalism and imperialism do not care about the
pseudo-fights between the two parties or the cable TV
bickering of the day. They do not like the far left or the
far right. They do not like extremism of any kind. They do
not support Communism and they do not support neo-Nazism
or some fascist revolution. They care only about one
thing: disempowering and crushing anyone who dissents from
and threatens their hegemony. They care about stopping
dissidents. All the weapons they build and institutions
they assemble - the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA,
oligarchical power - exist for that sole and exclusive
purpose, to fortify their power by rewarding those who
accede to their pieties and crushing those who do not.

The first War on Terror ended up being wielded primarily
on foreign soil but it has increasingly been imported onto
domestic soil against Americans. This New War on Terror -
one that is domestic in name from the start and carries
the explicit purpose of fighting "extremists" and
"domestic terrorists" among American citizens on U.S. soil
- presents the whole slew of historically familiar dangers
when governments, exploiting media-generated fear and
dangers, arm themselves with the power to control
information, debate, opinion, activism and protests.

* * *

Все так. "Выше, выше, черный стяг! Государство - главный
враг!" Государство и его как бы частные щупальца, которые
вырабатывают и осуществляют государственную политику: Голливуд,
амазон-гугл-ФСБук-эппл, частные тюрьмы, майнстримные масс-медиа,
финансисты. Трамп называл эту дрянь "deep state",
в России его называют "гебня" и "номенклатура",
но суть у них одна; по факту, современный российский
гебист-номенклатурщик, оказавшись в Конгрессе,
Wall-street или около, не заметит никакой
разницы, и будет продолжать заниматься тем
же, чем всегда занимается.

If you identify as a conservative and continue to believe
that your prime enemies are ordinary leftists, or you
identify as a leftist and believe your prime enemies are
Republican citizens, you will fall perfectly into the trap
set for you. Namely, you will ignore your real enemies,
the ones who actually wield power at your expense: ruling
class elites, who really do not care about "right v. left"
and most definitely do not care about "Republican
v. Democrat" - as evidenced by the fact that they fund
both parties... A standard Goldman Sachs banker or Silicon
Valley executive has far more in common, and is far more
comfortable, with Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch
McConnell, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan than they do with the
ordinary American citizen. Except when it means a mildly
disruptive presence - like Trump - they barely care
whether Democrats or Republicans rule various organs of
government, or whether people who call themselves
"liberals" or "conservatives" ascend to power.

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