They Control Everything - Die Tageszeitung, Germany
And, the response by some here is "Please, Sir, May I have more?"
http://watchingamerica.com/News/210034/they-control-everything/
If George W. Bush were now still president, an outcry would presumably go through the left and Democratic public of the U.S. But the fact that a Democrat sits in the White House has already put the brakes on other criticism — of retaining Guantánamo, for example, and of numerous military operations with and without drones in the rest of the world. It will have a stultifying effect this time, too.
Instead of reacting with loud protests, many Americans react with incredulous astonishment over how far the control mania stretches in their country. Behind it is a mindset that has prevailed since Sept. 11, 2001. Since the terrorist attacks, control has become a basis for thinking and policies in the U.S.
On the ruins of the World Trade Center, governments in Washington have allowed a more and more powerful new apparatus to develop and be further and further expanded. A parallel structure that bears the name “Homeland Security” has its own department and remains spared from the usual budget cuts.
The reference to “terroristic threat” is an argument that beats all others. Twelve years after the attacks, “Homeland Security” in the U.S. is a politics of fear.
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