Media favourite and Establishment mouthpiece Michael Hayden is
critical of Cruz's rhetoric regarding the patrolling of Muslim neighbourhoods.
The Totalitarian Hayden tries to paint himself as a voice of reason and
moderation. In truth he's a fascistic murderer, power-mad and deeply invested
in the US Security Apparatus.
He serves the machine faithfully and this little episode is
instructive. The debate is framed under false pretense and all parties (except
maybe Cruz) know it. Hayden speaks of radical individuals and not communities.
And yet how would Hayden locate, surveil and arrest these individuals?
Mass surveillance. So what's the difference?
Brennan is the focus of the article but Hayden concurs.
The truth is that US authorities have already been targeting
Muslim neighbourhoods since 9/11. They have patrolled their streets, put them
under surveillance and have infiltrated their mosques. Cruz's faux pas is that he
openly called for it. You're not supposed to do that.
Anyone paying attention for the past several years already
knows about the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies in places like Dearborn
Michigan and Los Angeles have already been doing these things. But the
revelations came from whistleblowers not official press releases.
These discussions are like a game. Someone like Cruz posits
the 'extreme' position and then Hayden can appear as the voice of moderation.
And yet in the end, what was once out of bounds now becomes the mainstream. We
don't need to antagonise the Muslim populations by being openly confrontational.
Rather we should just work covertly, collect data and use surveillance
techniques. That's reasonable right? What was earth shattering a few years ago
now seems reasonable.
They know that a small portion of the population will be
upset by the Snowden revelations but they're largely 'spinning' it to their
advantage. Sadly I must admit that in all likelihood a majority of the
population supports the eradication of the Bill of Rights.
Looking to France and Belgium everything the Right wing is calling
for has already been done. These terrorists were already on the radar. Their
success is either the result of deliberate negligence (if you want to accept
conspiracy) or bureaucratic hesitation to the point of negligence. Either way
they had all the information, they just didn't act on it.
But now programmes that already existed in secret, known only
because of whistleblowers can now be promoted openly. There's no need to
whisper and the traumatised public is happy to go along with it. What that also
tells us is that there are already secret programmes as of yet unveiled and
more in the works.
While Hayden portrays himself as the calm voice of
contemplative restraint he's actually advancing the agenda. It's fools like
Cruz that play right into their hands.
Of course the Right will spin this, make Hayden look weak
because he doesn't want to declare war on the whole Muslim community. This is a
little hard for Trump supporters to understand but the numbers and social
fabric make this issue slightly more complicated than some kind of mass
crackdown. Trump's plans would generate more strife and actually weaken US
power. That's why they resist him. It's not because they're 'wimps'. It's more
a matter of he's that stupid and clueless about how things work.
Europe is caught in a race and one more pressing than the
United States. They've either got to integrate the Muslim population or they
will soon face massive social unrest. We've already had hints of it. They are
trying to keep their societies safe. Antagonising the millions of Muslims that
are part of their economic structure is counter-productive on multiple fronts.
The Right refuses to understand this and it doesn't help when you have lame
pseudo-intellectuals in the Christian community who think the problem is that
Secular Europeans can't properly understand evil. American Conservatism shines
through but there's little in the way of historical reflection, wisdom or the
application of Scripture.
Apparently it's okay to cry 'Peace, Peace' if we would all
just submit to Right-wing militarism. Surveillance, Nuclear Weapons and
occasional bombings will bring 'us' peace they argue. We can have it as long as
we destroy everyone else. I grow weary of warmonger Christians twisting
Jeremiah to mock those who seek any solution but large-scale violence. No one
is suggesting that non-militarist solutions are going to bring peace to this
world. Mohler and other frauds like him would portray anyone who questions the
militarist line as some kind of Yoko Ono wannabe. We're not trying to 'give
peace a chance', we're trying to avoid even greater bloodshed and find another
way to calm the situation down.
War itself is evil and if the streets of Europe explode into violence
and the EU collapses there will be waves of it, each worse than the last.
Hayden once again sounds moderate, condemning Cruz and Trump.
The Establishment isn't moderate but they're not insane either. The political
extremes whether Nativist, Pseudo-Socialist or Christian Sacralist all serve
their purpose. They make the Establishment sound moderate and provide a
dynamism that allows the agenda to keep progressing.
