"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Shssh! Don't Tell Americans How We Treat ?Enemy Combatants?
"Frightened after 9/11 over the prospect that 'the terrorists' were coming to get them, many Americans were either silent or supportive when U.S. officials assumed the most powerful dictatorial tool possible ? the power to arbitrarily take people into custody, torture them, and even execute them after a kangaroo proceeding. What never occurred to many Americans was that the military would have the authority to exercise this dictatorial power on them."
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