Glenn Greenwald on the Lynch-mob mentality

….All throughout the Bush years, no matter what one objected to — illegal eavesdropping, torture, rendition, indefinite detention, denial of civilian trials — the response from Bush followers was the same:  “But these are Terrorists, and Terrorists have no rights, so who cares what is done to them?” What they actually meant was:  ”the Government has claimed they are Terrorists,” but in their minds, that was the same thing as:  “they are Terrorists.”….

Greenwald compares the current mentality of presumption of guilt (because the government said so) to that of the Salem Witch Trials. And in an update to his post, he highlights one commenter:

….In my job I have to attend monthly community council meetings in one of the police precincts I cover. Here in New York City, just substitute “gang member” for “terrorist” and you have the same dynamic.

Many members of the community were sincerely asking why it is that we can’t just arrest gang members (people we think are gang members based on indicia, I suppose) on sight, whether they’re involved in criminal activity at the time or not, and some thought we should be able to just “take them out.”

It was pretty funny to then hear a room full of cops and DA’s try to explain due process and the Constitution to a room full of civilians who were probably 90% Democrats. Well, maybe ‘funny’ isn’t the word….

That’s the mentality of the supposedly “Constitutionalist,” “conservative” talk radio hosts I listen to in the Boston area. I wonder if they might change their tune if/when the Obommunists go after those “anti-government” types and tea-party activists.

People who blindly believe what government officials tell them are known as “sheeple.” There have been a lot of sheeple who have been blindly believing and trusting of our beloved government officials especially since 9/11. Many people have been followers of the moral relativism of the dreaded Bush Doctrine. But now that the Obommunists are in charge, they will use all the unconstitutional laws, regulations and procedures that Bush gave us to call anyone they want a “terrorist,” arrest people and search them without a warrant and jail them, even, yes, “take them out.” Don’t get in Obama’s way. Don’t get in Hillary Rotten Clinton’s way—that’s even worse, if you can believe it—because she wants to replace him. As H.L. Mencken (supposedly a favorite of talk host Michael Graham, but you could’ve fooled me) wrote,

….The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable….The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain…..

There have been plenty of signs that the Obommunists will use governmental power towards oppressive ends: members of the Administration who have praised Saul Alinsky, Chairman Mao,  Che Guevara and Marx. (No, not Groucho.) When Dick Cheney and Bush put in the unconstitutional, un-American, unpatriotic Patriot Act that has probably disgusted the Heavenly spirits of our Founding Fathers, the narrow-minded policy-makers of extreme shortsightedness probably were incapable of forecasting possible misuse and abuse of such policies by an even more socialist administration in the future. How could anyone have been more socialist than George W. Bush?! Sadly, the sheeple on the right have not been able to see the leftist Big Government destructiveness and invasiveness of liberty of the two Bush presidents and other “neocons,” despite plenty of evidence of it (Wall St. Bailout welfare, amnesty, “Amero,” etc.)

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It is unfortunate that the drooling Scott Brown fellators and war zealots and otherwise supporters of US governmental expansionist policies abroad cannot see that foreign governmental expansionism is just as destructive to our liberty and security as domestic governmental expansionism. It’s impractical and counter-productive as well as immoral for the US government to invade and violate people abroad as well as its own citizens.

If anything destroys the United States of America, it won’t be terrorism or Obama or Hillary Rotten Clinton or illegal immigrants or drugs, it will be the US government. The US government began destroying America and liberty and progress since the Founding of America. I think we need Donald Trump to tell the federal government, “You’re fired.”