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briandmyers  ·  4508 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Extremism normalized (Salon)
Agreed. Also, I feel that the the threats to ordinary justice are even more disturbing than threats to privacy. When recent US presidents started asserting their right to murder foreigners at will, there was hardly any outcry. Now that they are claiming the right to do that to American citizens too, there is a mild reaction, but really, who didn't see that coming? I am old enough to remember when it was a shock and a disgrace that Kennedy and the CIA attempted to assassinate Castro. Nowadays, it's "meh, you cross America, you better watch your ass". Imagine the outcry if (say) Germany started killing foreigners on foreign soil. But for some reason it's OK for America to do exactly the same thing?