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Concerns are surfacing over Joe Biden’s new war on terror plan that looks inward on the home front of America.
The president-elect slammed protesters who breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists,” blaming President Donald Trump for inciting the violence that unfolded as Congress met to certify the election results. But some see the red flags in Biden’s pledge to pass a law against domestic terrorism, warning that it could be the beginning of repressive policies aimed at silencing opposing views.
“There’s absolutely a new War on Terror being initiated — it’d been lurking for awhile, but it’s accelerating now for obvious reasons,” journalist and best-selling author Glenn Greenwald wrote on Twitter Friday.
“This new one is aimed inward, domestically. It entails many of the same frameworks,” he added, citing a new report in The Wall Street Journal. “They’re saying it explicitly.”
There’s absolutely a new War on Terror being initiated — it’d been lurking for awhile, but it’s accelerating now for obvious reasons. This new one is aimed inward, domestically. It entails many of the same frameworks.
They’re saying it explicitly:https://t.co/TUkK0mmMxU pic.twitter.com/ygCLuTZe2C
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
Biden attacked Trump over the violence which he called “one of the darkest days in the history of our nation,” accusing the president of having “unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of democracy.”
Not only has the Democrat promised to make a domestic terrorism law a priority, but he has also been “urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Greenwald raised the concern over decisions being made in the wake of significant events.
“If the last few decades teach anything, it should be that making weighty decisions at times of high and intense emotions, closely following an event that unifies most everyone to the point that any deviations or questioning are treated like treason or heresy, is extremely unwise,” Greenwald tweeted.
If the last few decades teach anything, it should be that making weighty decisions at times of high and intense emotions, closely following an event that unifies most everyone to the point that any deviations or questioning are treated like treason or heresy, is extremely unwise.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
“From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian ‘solutions’ are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat,” he wrote on Twitter Thursday.
“One need not engage in denialism or minimization of a threat to rationally resist fear-driven fanaticism,” he added.
From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.
One need not engage in denialism or minimization of a threat to rationally resist fear-driven fanaticism.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 7, 2021
There have already been retaliations to the events that unfolded on Wednesday, from social media platforms outright blocking the president’s accounts, to the calls for lawmakers to resign if they were supportive of the challenges to the election results.
Liberals who are behind the Biden/Harris plan to initiate this new War on Terror, this time with a primary domestic focus, won’t need to study what neocons did with the first War on Terror to learn those old tactics against critics. Neocons are their full allies in all of this.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
A key ally for the Dems in this domestic War on Terror will be the same media outlets who have acted as their spokespeople since 2016. CNN employs a former conservative, @oliverdarcy, whose main function in life is to demand censorship on behalf of Dems:https://t.co/bjb1LUC7Dv
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
Democrats even suggested putting Americans involved in the protests to be placed on a no-fly list normally reserved for terrorists.
Demands that US citizens be put on a no-fly list with no due process whatsoever are back. https://t.co/MxAVsxtt2Z
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
The warnings were echoed on the left as well.
“Whatever Joe Biden does to strengthen state responses to “domestic terrorism” will inevitably be used to repress all other mobilizations and resistances,” Zoé Samudzi, a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California, tweeted.
Whatever Joe Biden does to strengthen state responses to “domestic terrorism” will inevitably be used to repress all other mobilizations and resistances because the PATRIOT Act + post-9/11 security theater broadened the scope to include whatever it needs to. Good morning.
— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) January 8, 2021
It feels breathtakingly clear especially after J20 protestors in 2017, the BLM summer protests, indigenous land defenders at Standing Rock + so-called “Mount Rushmore,” “black identity extremism,” the State Department threatening to sic the JTT on “antifa” and and and and
— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) January 8, 2021
Greenwald sees a replay of “tactics” forming again.
“I spent the first decade of my journalism career devoted to exposing and denouncing the excesses of the first War on Terror, and I see exactly the same tactics forming,” he wrote. “If you question or are concerned about these new powers, you’ll be branded as sympathetic to the terrorists.”
I spent the first decade of my journalism career devoted to exposing and denouncing the excesses of the first War on Terror, and I see exactly the same tactics forming:
If you question or are concerned about these new powers, you’ll be branded as sympathetic to the terrorists.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2021
Plenty of Twitter users agreed with the warnings:
It’s all part of the plan. This is no accident.
— L (@nayitis) January 8, 2021
The party that has claimed to protect the marginalized is about to engage in some serious marginalizing.
— Justin (3’6″, generally unqualified) (@FIIK85) January 8, 2021
The decision to turn our vast counter-terrorism apparatus on our own citizens is completely calculated and they were simply waiting for the pretext to do so.
The “emotional” moment provides cover much like during 9/11.
— Vinesh Singh Rathore (@vsingh2014) January 8, 2021
I have a feeling it’s going to be even worse this time. Insanity is the new normal. This is a call to civil war. pic.twitter.com/NYBrw106Ue
— Emily Dickinson (@EmilyDickinsonI) January 8, 2021
Can someone explain to me how destroying individual liberties to “preserve democracy” works?
— Market Sanity (@MarketSanity) January 8, 2021
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