Ray McGovern
Exclusive: Though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade
ago, Congress continues to exploit them to pass evermore draconian laws on "terrorism,"
with the Senate now empowering the military to arrest people on U.S. soil and
hold them without trial, a serious threat to American liberties, says ex-CIA
analyst Ray McGovern.
Ambiguous but alarming new wording, which is tucked into the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) and was just passed by the Senate, is reminiscent of
the "extraordinary measures" introduced by the Nazis after they
took power in 1933.
And the relative lack of reaction so far calls to mind the oddly calm indifference
with which most Germans watched the erosion of the rights that had been guaranteed
by their own Constitution. As one German writer observed, "With sheepish
submissiveness we watched it unfold, as if from a box at the theater."
The writer was Sebastian Haffner (real name Raimond Pretzel), a young German
lawyer worried at what he saw in 1933 in Berlin, but helpless to stop it since,
as he put it, the German people "collectively and limply collapsed, yielded
and capitulated."
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