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1 an Unseen Truth 1 Notes 1 An Unseen Truth 1. Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York, 2004, p. 419. 2. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/newsack:/releases/2001/09 /20010920–8.html. 3. Paul K. Davis, Besieged, 100 Great Sieges From Jericho to Sarajevo, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003. 4. It led the then US secretary of state Madeline Albright to say the death of 500,000 Iraqi children as result of sanctions was “worth it.” John Pilger, “Squeezed to Death,” Guardian, March 4, 2000. 5. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html. 6. FOX hypes stories to claim “Christmas Under Siege”: http://mediamatters. org/research/200412100006 (December 10, 2004). 7. Charlie Savage, Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning about Use of the Patriot Act, March 16, 2012. 8. www.wired.com/dangeroom2011/07. 9. www.dhs.gov/xabout/laws/law_regulation_rule_0011.shtm. 10. Found in the former President’s autobiography, Decision Points, Crown Publishing, 2010. 11. Weekly Standard, December 5, 2005. 12. http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/07/obama-approves-indefinite-detention- without-trial/. 13. Janine Jackson, “Whistling Past the Wreckage of Civil Liberties,” Extra, September 2011, p. 13. 14. Chris Anders, Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window://www.aclu .org/ (November 2011). 15. http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/president-obama-signs- indefinite-detention-law. A New York judge tried to block the legislation in June 2012. Susan Madrak, Federal Judge Blocks NDAA Indefinite Detention, Crooks and Liars. 16. Jack A. Smith, “Our Civil Liberties under Attack: Big Brother’s Getting Even Bigger,” The Rag Blog, April 18, 2012. 17. Dana Priest and William Arkin, Top Secret America A Washington Post Investigation, December 20, 2010: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top- secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/?wpisrc=nl_politics. 18. Ellen Nakashima, “One Tip Enough to Put Name on Watch List,” Washington Post, December 30, 2010. 190 Notes 19. Smith, “Our civil liberties under attack: Big Brother’s getting even bigger,” The Rag Blog, April 18, 2012. 20. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/18/cispa-unprecedented- access-internet-privacy. 21. Kevin Zeese, “FBI Raids on Political Activists,” Z Magazine, November 2010, p. 7. 22. Maher Arar arrested on charges of alleged terrorism, later shown to be innocent. Monia Mazigh, Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar, McClelland & Stewart, 2008. 23. James M. Klatell, “Jose Padilla’s Mental State at Issue,” CBS News, February 11, 2009: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/24/cbsnews_investigates /main2510272.shtml. 24. James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003, pp. 108–109. 25. New York Times, February 12, 2006. 26. Jane Mayer, “The Secret Sharer: Is Thomas Drake an Enemy of the State?,” New Yorker, May 23, 2011. 27. Chris Hedges, “Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama’s War on Whistle- Blowers,” www.truthdig.com, March 12, 2012. 28. Doug Mataconis, “Oklahoma Outlaws Sharia Law,” November 3, 2010, www. outsidethebeltway.com. In January 2010 Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wanted to hold hearings in what many consider McCarthyism like proceedings, while fellow Republican Louie Gohmert (Texas) said on Frank Gaffney’s radio show that it was a “creeping” threat: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/19/gohmert-sharia-hearings/. 29. Nouran El-Behairy, “Congresswoman claims Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating US government,” Daily News Egypt, July 21, 2012. 30. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/304306/islamophobia- network/. 31. FAIR Extra 4/03 and 5–6/03. Also see Paul Rutherford, Weapons of Mass Persuasion, Marketing the War against Iraq, University of Toronto Press, 2004. Judith Miller’s New York Times uncritical reportage of the government rationale for war is well covered. 32. The Patriot Act saw only Democrat Russ Feingold voting against it in the Senate. Fellow Democrat Barbara Lee stood alone in all of Congress who voted against the authorization of use of force after 9/11. 33. FAIR Extra, October 2001; also http://www.therationalradical.com/dsep/ bill-oreilly-afghanistan.htm. 34. Toronto Star, August 20, 2011. 35. “‘I’d do it again’ says police commander filmed pepper spraying the faces of women at Occupy Wall Street protest,” Daily Mail, October 21, 2011. 36. Bill O’Reilly: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are ‘Drug-Trafficking Crack heads,’ http://gawker.com/5849721/bill-oreilly-occupy-wall-street-protesters-are- drug+trafficking-crackheads 37. Extra, magazine of FAIR, October 14, 2011. Also http://sjlendman.blogspot. com/2011/11/americas-media-war-on-ows.html. 38. www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/18/wall-street-firms-spy-on-protestors-in- tax-funded-center/. 39. “Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Attempt Media Blackout at Zuccotti Park,” The Guardian, November 15, 2011. 40. Rebecca Kemble, “8 Arrested in Wis. Capitol, Including The Progressive’s Editor, for Using Cameras or Holding Signs,” The Progressive, November 2, 2011. Notes 191 41. www.peacecouncil.net/pnl/02/712/712CivilLiberties.htm. 42. Amnesty International: http://www.globalissues.org/article/263/amnesty- international-human-rights-backlash. 43. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100112003; http://www. globalissues.org/article/427/amnesty-international-no-shortcut-to-genuine- security. 44. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0317–12.htm. 45. Ibid. 46. Proposed Bill C-30 presented in 2012 by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. 47. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/24/contents: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. 48. http://www.notbored.org/england-history.html. 49. A survey by cableco NTL: Telewest and carried out by YouGov, polled more than 2,000 individuals. Just over 80 percent supported use of CCTV: http: //www.silicon.com/management/public-sector/2006/11/23/cctv-ok -with-uk-39164280/. 50. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 551. 51. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s Assault on Civil Liberties (updated September 2003): http://www.aclu.org/national-security/attorney-general-john-ashcrofts- assault-civil-liberties-updated-september-2003. 52. O’Reilly Factor, April 30, 2003. O’Reilly often threatened his listeners not to protest against the war, as it would be a sign of disloyalty, almost traitorous. www.globalissues.org/issue/245. 53. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 529. 54. Radio host Thom Hartman often speaks of it, quoting historic incidents where America has sacrificed liberty for security, ending up with neither. 55. http://www.angus-reid.com/polls. Of those polled, 77 percent supported the plan to strip citizens of US citizenship if shown connected to terrorism. Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act (May 20, 2010). 56. Ibid. 57. Hardoon Siddiqui, Coming to Grips with New Anti-Semitism, Toronto Star, September 17, 2011. 58. Interview with author, 2011. 59. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 557. 60. Godfrey Hodgson, The Myth of American Exceptionalism, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, p. 38. 61. www.law.berkeley.edu/files/SteinfeldPaperMarch14CSLS(3).pdf. Author email interview with Bruce Bedell of the On Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies: C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\Temp\Loyalist Institute Home Page.mht. 62. Author email interview with R. Wallace Hale, Loyalist author and authority: “I’m quite certain no Federal compensation was ever paid to any Loyalist, and can’t recall any mention of compensation paid by any of the States, although it’s possible there may have been rare instances. By the terms of the peace treaty, Loyalists were supposed to be able to collect any debts owing them by the revo- lutionists (patriots), but most Loyalists who attempted doing so received hostile reception. Usually, failure or refusal to swear allegiance to the State resulted in attainder and banishment, or forced expulsion by the patriots of the area. Leaving brought on confiscation of property.” 63. Stone, Perilous Times. Amaury Cruz, lawyer, writer, and political activist living in Miami Beach, December 20, 2010, from consul email Montreal: “Indeed, 192 Notes the equivalent of the crime of dangerousness was first established in the U.S. through the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. These have been reincarnated in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism 2007, which was passed in the House of Representatives, but not yet in the Senate. This is the result of legislation based on ‘fear and trembling, a disease unto death’ (to quote Kierkegaard titles), either here or in Cuba. However, Cuba has lived for fifty years under an obsessive policy of regime change by the world’s most powerful nation, the fear is not unjustified.” 64. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 12. 65. Ibid. 66. Ibid., p. 171. 67. http://www.essortment.com/espionage-history-1917–1918–21257.html. 68. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 230. 69. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/smithactof1940.html. 70. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 252. 71. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Anchor Books, New York, 2008. 72. George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, p. 770. 73. Interview with author, April 5, 2011. 74. Stone, Perilous Times, p. 533. 75. Interview with author, April 6, 2011. 76. Radio host Ed Schulz, in response to an incredulous caller (2010), commented he has never noticed any lessening of civil rights. Most people accept the notion that if the individual is not doing anything wrong there should not be any objections to the surveillance programs. 77. Interview with author, April 6, 2011. 78. http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/bush.html. 79. Sources: State Department official source of Plame leak, CNN Politics, August 30, 2006: http://articles.cnn.com/2006–08–30/politics/. 80. Stephanie Miller radio show, March 18, 2011. 81. Jonathan Turley, “The Demon is Dead; So are Many of Our Rights,” USA Today, May 6, 2011.
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