A few of the exact same individuals behind the unique ‘Conflict on Terror’ are actually serving to begin a brand new one in opposition to Individuals, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned amid a rising crackdown on free speech following the chaos on the US Capitol.
Greenwald is a lawyer who turned to journalism in 2005 to protest the suppression of Individuals’ civil liberties underneath the Bush-Cheney ‘conflict on terror’. He ended up taking part in a key position in publishing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in regards to the unlawful mass spying on Individuals. On Friday, nevertheless, he sounded alarm over what he noticed as historical past repeating.
“There’s completely a brand new Conflict on Terror being initiated,” he tweeted. “This new one is aimed inward, domestically.”
There’s completely a brand new Conflict on Terror being initiated — it’d been lurking for awhile, but it surely’s accelerating now for apparent causes. This new one is aimed inward, domestically. It entails lots of the similar frameworks. They’re saying it explicitly:https://t.co/TUkK0mmMxUpic.twitter.com/ygCLuTZe2C
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
“I spent the primary decade of my journalism profession dedicated to exposing and denouncing the excesses of the primary Conflict on Terror, and I see precisely the identical techniques forming,” he wrote.
The Democrats behind it received’t even want to review the techniques of neoconservatives from the unique WoT – as “Neocons are their full allies in all of this,” Greenwald famous. Anybody who has questions or considerations about it is going to be demonized as a “terrorist” sympathizer.
For instance, he supplied up tweets by former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum – of “axis of evil” infamy – now posing as a “liberal thought chief.”
Superb – yesterday I wrote: the identical tactic used in opposition to critics of the primary Conflict on Terror could be used for the brand new one: demonizing those that query its excesses as “pro-terrorist.” At present, up pops neocon @DavidFrum to reprise his position, this time as a liberal thought chief pic.twitter.com/VJqjFulvik
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
A key ally on this will probably be “the identical media retailers who’ve acted as their spokespeople since 2016,” Greenwald argued, once more citing an instance: CNN’s Oliver Darcy, a “former conservative… whose major perform in life is to demand censorship on behalf of [Democrats].”
USA At present has despatched out a name to readers to report and determine individuals concerned in Wednesday’s storming of the US Capitol, which Democrats and the media have more and more painted as an “rebel” and referred to as for a harsh crackdown on “home terrorists.”
A number of hundred supporters of President Donald Trump first breached the police limitations to enter the Capitol grounds, then broke into the constructing itself, however finally dispersed after Trump referred to as for peace and order.
Greenwald has condemned the riot on the Capitol, however warned that if there’s a lesson of the previous 20 years, it’s that “making weighty selections at occasions of excessive and intense feelings, carefully following an occasion that unifies most everybody to the purpose that any deviations or questioning are handled like treason or heresy, is extraordinarily unwise.”
A number of different unbiased journalists have additionally raised alarm in regards to the mounting crackdown on speech that has adopted the occasions on the Capitol.
The state crackdown on these deemed to be complicit this “assault on democracy” or no matter you wish to name it — “fascists,” “MAGA terrorists,” “white nationalists,” “insurrectionists” — goes to make the Clinton/Reno stuff within the 90s appear like, as Trump would say, “peanuts”
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 8, 2021
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