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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Democracy
On 1/14/2015 11:52 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
In case no one has noticed, our dear president Obama has changed the rhetoric
used as cover for our Orwellian systems state of permanent war…. The term “War
on Terror” is bad enough, it implies an endless war requiring an Orwellian
intrusive state. But at least it seemed circumscribed to opponents it could
describe as being involved in terror.
Obama is now calling it the “War on extremism”. That term sends Orwellian
shivers down my spine; it is so broad and arbitrary in nature and can be used
to describe any and all opponents.
Sigh, everybody's so paranoid about government. Obama started using
"extremism" because the chattering classes kept pointing out that terrorism is
just a tactic and you can't make war on a tactic.
First a comment: it is not “chatter” that terrorism is a tactic; it happens to
be a fact!
Calling it the “war on extremism”, opens the door to thought crime. With the
new definition almost any un-desirable subject of interest can be so labeled.
It is already being done, in fact. This has a chilling free expression. What
happens when someone gets into office with a homegrown Christian fundamentalist
agenda.
Power needs to be circumscribed and limited as much as possible. Not because of
good emperors but because of the more common bad ones!
-Chris
Brent
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