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Wednesday July 14, 2010 · 12:57 PM PDT

2010/07/14 · 12:57

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CrazedLiberal

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Thursday October 15, 2009 · 6:09 PM PDT

2009/10/15 · 18:09

It's obvious that political correctness and fears over a fanatical response by conservative politicians, activists, and right-wing media has till now largely prevented a discussion of religiously inspired violence by our nation's more fundamentalist Christians.
Though the logic and policies of the "war on terroism", with its disturbing but commonplace neo-fascist language has become popular on the right and easily applies to the hard-core evangelical Christians who use religion to sanction and committ violence, maybe we should avoid labelling people terrorists. It too easily follows the Orwellian logic peddled by, yet to be convicted war criminals, Bush, Cheney, Edington, Yoo, et. al.
Terrorists are desperately hoping our nation overracts to their violence, but if we maintain respect for our nation's democratic institutions, with no military detentions of civilians, and not expecting a militarized response to solve this challenge, than we will avoid serving Al Qaeda through a fearful overreaction.

As a thought expirement, what if the hard-core right's militant, neo-fascist logic of the "war on terroism", were applied to Christian "terrorists" as it has been applied until now so selectively to Muslims?

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What do you think?

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What do you think?

I agree, cut the defense budget, it's wasteful.

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I don't agree, "the generals" and "the military" should call the shots

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I don't know, I'm hungover.

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Pentagon & NorthCom: A Threat to our Democracy

CrazedLiberal

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 9:59 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 21:59

On October 1, 2002, George W. Bush established an additional regional military command, which in some grammatical and strategic respects resemble numerous other United States military regional commands currently operating in the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
What has made Bush’s creation of an additional command so controversial, alarming, and potentially unconstitutional is the new command, NorthCom, will have responsibilities for numerous ill-defined "emergencies" inside the United States. In a democracy such as ours, the reality of the United States Military becoming increasingly involved in domestic law enforcement during emergencies of various types, should be alarming and chilling to millions upon millions of Americans who are dedicated to the Constitution, civil liberties, and our way of life.

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Do you care about NorthCom?

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Do you care about NorthCom?

Yes, deploying soldiers soldiers on domestic soil freaks me out

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President Obama should be trusted to use this authority wisely

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NorthCom, I didn't know there was a freaking NorthCom

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President Obama is just a politician and can't be trusted to use this authority wisely

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