Reducing the citizenry to a frightened puddle of passivity, hysteria and a child-like expectation of Absolute Safety is irrevocable and far more consequential than any specific new laws. Fear is always the enabling force of authoritarianism: the desire to vest unlimited power in political authority in exchange for promises of protection.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Question others' patriotism, and delegitimize elections, too
Glenn Greenwald:
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