As I went through airport security, these ideas went through my mind:
“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.”
(see also More “War on the Unexpected”)
November 22, 2007 at 8:36 pm
“Another online piece reports that Blackwater is setting up operations along the US/Mexico border and an insightful post on Daily Kos describes how the TSA list will revert from the airlines to the management of the Department of Homeland Security shortly and that by February we may well face the need to apply to the State for permission to travel. If this proposed regulation goes through, we will move from 1931 to about 1934–when the borders started to close– with the stroke of a pen. Jews in America have hardwired into their DNA a sense of the distinction between those who got out before the borders closed and those who waited a moment too long.”
-Naomi Wolf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/a-paper-coup-and-black_b_71067.html
November 22, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Coincidently, I had a friend send who sent me this link last week. It’s Naomi Wolf talking about her new book “The End of America”.