Tuesday, April 19, 2005

US MILITARISM One may think American militarism mainly affects countries abroad, where a rumour is enough to storm a city (military intelligence is an oxymoron), but militarization is creeping on the American citizen as well. MotherJones: "In 2002, the Defense Department updated its Unified Command Plan, which made the already blurry lines between civilian and military even less legible. Since then, all over America, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been making information about the public available to a Pentagon power center most people have never heard about: U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Hidden deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, more than 100 intelligence analysts sift through streams of data collected by federal agents and local law enforcers, continually updating a virtual picture of what the command calls the North American 'battlespace', which includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as 500 miles out to sea. If they find something amiss, they have resources to deploy in response that no law enforcement agency could dream of. They've got an army, a navy, an air force, the Marines, and the Coast Guard." One would think that is for tracking terrorists. Not at all. FortWayne: "An accused mass-murdering terrorist has sneaked into the U.S. illegally and is skulking around at large. He is suspected of blowing up a civilian airliner in flight, directing a string of hotel bombings and plotting to kill a head of state. He's already escaped from prison once." The purpose of militarism is not to protect Americans from terror, on the contrary, militarism thrives on terror and its ultimate aim is to terrorize the American people. 11:14:30 AM

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