Your Duty As A Citizen Is To Be Afraid
Whenever They Say "Be Afraid!"
William Boardman
If a country is at war, and that war is an
illusion, is there a cure?
The
war we're at is the undeclared war that began, for all practical purposes, on
September 11, 2001. It is the war on terrorism. It is a war on an abstraction,
a tactic, an idea that can be embodied by anyone or everyone or no one. We are
waging war on terrorism even as we embody terrorism. No wonder we seem
sometimes to be at war with ourselves, and have been for most of the 21st
century.
"We
have now been at war for well over a decade," the president said in a statement
so simple and broad as to include all the devastation we've wrought in Iraq and
Afghanistan to so little useful effect, right down to the latest drone strike
against some person we decided fits today's enemy combatant profile.
That
much is obvious to almost everyone. Less obvious is that the same war has been
turned inward, waged against Americans at home -- increasingly prisoners of the
homeland and increasingly surrounded by homeland security, whether it's needed
or not. The unchecked expansion of policing entities since 9/11, too vast to be
easily or briefly described, continues unchecked, because we are at war.
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