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Enslaving People to Keep Them Safe from Government-Produced Enemies

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“Not surprisingly, the U.S. national-security establishment has used the threats that its own polices have produced to do the same thing that France and other European countries have done throughout history — suspend the rights and liberties of the citizenry in the name of keeping them ‘safe’ from the enemies that the national-security establishment itself has produced. While it’s true that U.S. officials are not yet bashing down people’s doors in search of terrorists or communists, it’s also true that they now wield such totalitarian powers as military arrest of citizens and their indefinite military detention, torture, and assassination, all without due process of law and trial by jury.”

http://fff.org/2015/11/25/enslaving-people-to-keep-them-safe-from-government-produced-enemies/

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Watching the Anti-Freedom Actions of Francois Hollande

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“Francois Hollande has come into his own. After nearly bankrupting France and raising taxes so aggressively that he has driven many of France’s best and brightest abroad, Hollande has found his voice as a wartime president.  Bombing Syria is not going to forestall further violence in France. In fact, such actions will surely increase the chaos and over time add to the bloodletting. But Hollande has found his voice! He bays for blood and lobbies Britain to join him in bombing Syria. The Middle East mistakes of the past decade are about to be repeated. And actually, after a point one cannot call them ‘mistakes.'”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36664/Anthony-Wile-Watching-the-Anti-Freedom-Actions-of-Francois-Hollande/

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‘There is no hiding place… our bombs will kill people’: Jeremy Corbyn

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“Jeremy Corbyn today warned Labour MPs there is ‘no hiding place’ if they ignore his pleas and back British airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.  The Labour leader warned pro-bombing MPs they will have to answer to party members if they ignore grassroots opposition to military action in tomorrow’s crunch vote and support action which will lead to civilian deaths.  In an attempt to apply more pressure Stop the War supporters will march on Labour’s headquarters in London tonight after gathering in Parliament Square. Mr Corbyn was humiliated by his own shadow cabinet yesterday, when frontbenchers lined up to insist they would vote in favour of bombing ISIS.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340717/Cameron-cancels-PMQs-SEVEN-hours-debate-bombing-ISIS-Syria-airstrikes-launched-tomorrow-night.html

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Paris Attacks Spur Emergency Edict and Intense Policing in France

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“All over France, from Toulouse in the south to Paris and beyond, the police have been breaking down doors, conducting searches without warrants, aggressively questioning residents, hauling suspects to police stations and putting others under house arrest.  The extraordinary steps are now perfectly legal under the state of emergency decreed by the government after the attacks on Nov. 13 in Paris that left 130 dead — a rare kind of mobilization that will continue. The French Parliament voted last week to extend the emergency for three more months, which means more warrantless searches, more interrogations, more people placed under house arrest.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/world/europe/in-france-some-see-the-police-security-net-as-too-harsh-paris-attacks.html

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The Feds Won’t Stop Terrorism This Way

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“While the current rationale for encryption back doors is to fight terrorism, they wouldn’t be used just for that purpose. For proof, just look at the history of the PATRIOT Act. This law gives the US government unprecedented civil forfeiture authority over the US ‘correspondent accounts’ of any bank in the world. If an alleged terrorist or other criminal deposits money at the bank overseas, the PATRIOT Act allows the government to seize an equivalent sum of money in the correspondent account in the US.  Proponents justified the law as a necessary escalation in the ‘War on Terror.’ But the very first time the government used its new civil forfeiture authority, it had nothing to do with terrorism.”

http://www.nestmann.com/the-feds-wont-stop-terrorism-this-way

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Glenn Greenwald: Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after Paris

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“There still is no evidence that the perpetrators in Paris used the Internet to plot their attacks, let alone used encryption technology.  CIA officials simply made that up. It is at least equally likely that the attackers formulated their plans in face-to-face meetings. The central premise of the CIA’s campaign — encryption enabled the attackers to evade our detection — is baseless.  Even if they had used encryption, what would that prove? Are we ready to endorse the precept that no human communication can ever take place without the U.S. government being able to monitor it? The claim that the Paris attackers learned to use encryption from Snowden is even more misleading.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1126-greenwald-snowden-paris-encryption-20151126-story.html

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Does fear make Americans stupid?

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“Terrorists strike, people feel fear, and the terrorists win. This is foolish. More Americans are killed by their cars or bathtubs, but you don’t fear those things. You shouldn’t fear terrorism either. Fear has been bad for America.  Every time the public feels afraid the politicians do something stupid. For example: We felt fear about 9-11 so we imposed the Patriot Act and the TSA on ourselves.  We felt fear about supposed weapons of mass destruction, and so we invaded Iraq. That invasion was the petri dish for ISIS.  Now we’re afraid of ISIS. So that means we must be on the verge of doing something else idiotic. Please refuse to participate in the stupidity. Instead, actively oppose it.”

https://downsizedc.org/blog/does-fear-make-americans-stupid

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Terrorists win: European Union to crack down on Bitcoin post Paris

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“The same draft document that includes a crackdown on Bitcoin is said to also include a plan ‘to curb more effectively the illicit trade in cultural goods,’ presumably a reference to antiquities smuggled out of ISIS held territories and sold on the black market for a profit.  Bitcoin’s role in the Paris terrorist attacks isn’t entirely certain, despite the fact that the Ghost Security Group suggested earlier this week that Bitcoin may have been used to finance the attacks. It may be cliched to say cracking down on anything as a result of terrorism is a case of letting the terrorists win, but without question the proposal by the European Union precisely fits this definition.”

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/11/19/terrorists-win-european-union-to-crack-down-on-bitcoin-post-paris-terrorist-attacks/

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Officials Worldwide Seek New Powers in Wake of Paris Attacks

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“Officials in several countries are wasting no time in trying to convince the public to trade essential freedoms for the promise of enhanced security.  US officials are also eager to cash in on the panic with more powers, seeking to expand their ability to carry out mass surveillance, citing the largely toothless ‘reforms’ of NSA surveillance as proof that the US has intelligence ‘gaps’ that need to be filled by more intrusion into ordinary citizens’ affairs.  Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was the least specific but the most direct, insisting that Paris proved the need to favor security over basic human rights, and predicting a massive shift toward more government power.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2015/11/16/officials-seek-new-powers-in-wake-of-paris-attacks/

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France under first nationwide state of emergency since 1961

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“Most significant for the French state in the current context are the powers given to the security services and police to act without judicial oversight. They can conduct house searches at any time, enforce house arrest and confiscate certain classes of weapons, even if people hold them legally.  Using the special measures, 168 homes have been raided and 104 people have been placed under house arrest in the past 48 hours. These have led to 23 arrests and the seizure of 31 weapons. On Sunday the French president, François Hollande, was reported to have told parliamentarians he was considering an extension of three months.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/france-nationwide-state-of-emergency

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