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Amusingly FB views the post as Spam. Yet FB permits an Agamben group.

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Interesting post today. Interesting because one of the things I am most interested in are the trade offs we humans have made to get “security”. In reality we can never have security. Especially since we pay such a very high price for it. For this security we surrender our freedom - always have and likely always will. Surrendering our freedom for allegiance to a bunch of power drunk fools who buy it for us for awhile for a very high price. It is in refusing to surrender this where we discover “truth” and learn to be truly free. “Dangerous freedom over peaceful tyranny.”

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"it can always be provoked by terrorism to become itself terroristic"

BINGO

“Terrorism, however, is especially useful. The premise that since we cannot know who is most likely to pose threats, that hence we must refrain from focusing on (profiling) Muslims and assume that the folks next door are as capable of mayhem as anyone shouting Allahu Akbar, has done much to make America what it is today. Especially because it is an in-your-face lie. The lie serves to free the ruling class to absolve or indict for terrorism whomever it chooses.”

“Surprise, surprise! Turns out that not everyone is as likely a source of terrorism as anyone else. The real, congenital, terrorists are conservative white folks. U.S intelligence properly profiles them to prevent the worst of them from taking part in society. And if anyone suggests that this relates to the fact that these white folks don’t vote for the Democratic Party, the Wall Street Journal tells us that the U.S. justice system is fair and competent: “The privacy of Americans hasn’t been threatened, while the Patriot Act has provided the feds with tools to break up domestic terror cells.” You must believe that, or else!

That is why the New York Times formulated the “War on Terror’s” official epitaph: “A War on Terror Accounting Since 9/11. The fall of Kabul shouldn’t obscure the successes over 20 years. Experts say it is the success of a multilateral effort that extends to as many as 85 countries.”

Who are you to disagree, white man?”

--Angelo Codevilla

Read this again:

"The fall of Kabul shouldn’t obscure the successes over 20 years. Experts say it is the success of a multilateral effort that extends to as many as 85 countries."

Yep, that's what I thought it said! -Ed

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