The root question in all of this is--exactly what is the nature of "national security?"
Is national security a question of protecting the individual rights of citizens, or the rights of corporations hell-bent on plundering the world's resources--ours and others'--in the name of unfettered capitalism?
Something else? A process to protect a myth? The residue of exceptionalism?
Is it to assuage terror, under the ever-broadening definition of that word, or to hold power so tightly that it restrains freedom?
Fascinating...
Two truths regarding empire--it has its limitations, and it always crumbles.
TS
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