https://theintercept.com/2017/03/19...or-attack-will-be-an-opportunity-not-a-curse/
basic idea is the same for the far-right in any country after any terrorist attack.
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CAN WE BREATHE a sigh of relief after federal judges blocked President Donald Trump’s discriminatory executive orders? For a moment we can, but we are just a terrorism attack away from the White House gaining a new pretext for its wrathful crackdown against Muslims and immigrants.
Among the alterations in American politics since Trump’s inauguration, this may be the most frightening one: a terror attack on U.S. soil will be used by the White House as an excuse for implementing an extra-legal agenda that could only be pushed through in a time of crisis. "
I.E all the cheeeto tweets about how the federal judiciary is making 'unprecedented' rulings against him. all the immigrant smearing. he is setting up a chance to declare a crisis in which he can restructure the judiciary. he is already changing the make-up of the judiciary, but following such a crisis:
"It wasn’t long ago that 9/11 was used as a pretext for invading Iraq. Although it was almost immediately clear that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
told President George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, “Part of our response maybe should be attacking Iraq. It’s an opportunity.” Just a few years earlier, Rumsfeld, along with Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney, had signed a now-infamous
letter calling for the removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The with-us-or-against-us atmosphere after 9/11 enabled them to carry out the task.
It has happened overseas, too. Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in Russia was accelerated by a series of mysterious bombings against apartment buildings across the country, and the bombings were so essential to consolidating Putin’s rule that he was
suspected of organizing them. There was also, most famously, the
Reichstag fire in 1933, in which the German Parliament burned to the ground, leading Adolf Hitler, the new chancellor, to warn that “there will be no mercy now. Anyone standing in our way will be cut down.”
The Trump administration has already begun laying the groundwork for extreme initiatives if — or more likely when — a terror attack occurs on U.S. soil and is tied to ISIS, al Qaeda or another Muslim group, according to civil liberties lawyers and activists. Under the guise of protecting national security, a blitz of presidential actions could target not just immigrants and Muslims but other minority groups as well as the media and the judiciary. These initiatives will be “more dire and much more severe” than Trump’s
first executive order in late January against the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, according to Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights."
So what will we get? martial/crisis law? war on iran? stripped judiciary?
"The writer Mark Danner
noted in a recent essay that the controversy over the first executive order may have served “the desire of the president and his advisers to stage a fight with a major institutional force not yet recumbent before him: the judiciary.” As Danner went on to explain, “the president’s assertion of his ‘unreviewable’ powers in the face of ‘so-called’ judges was not just absurd or ignorant but a bit of bait, establishing the basis for blaming the judiciary for any terrorist attack that was to come. On this he tweeted indefatigably and repeatedly.”
"In a way, the White House is like a pistol cocked to go off at the first touch. Warren, the head of the Center for Constitutional Rights, described the president’s early use of anti-Muslim executive orders as “a precursor, a mirror into what we’re going to be looking at” after a significant terror attack. Warren added, “I think the Trump administration will move by executive fiat for everything. It will create what’s essentially a constitutional crisis in the country.”
i would actually type something in this post, but the article basically contains like most of the things I usually write anyway.
british-born terrorist, not a refugee, but we are SURELY going to see refugees suffer the most from the policies that emerge after this attack.
also it's so coordinated with le pen's presidential campaign: the islamic extremists and the white supremacists all try to move together. the us gives money and arms to saudis to produce islamic terrorism to export to the west, which propels the rise of fascists through security politics.
the biggest lie is that the right wants to fight islamism, islamism is vital to their path to electoral victories, and they hate pluralistic theocracies like iran even though all the terrorists come from saudi arabia. theyre buddy buddy with the saudi terrorists, they love islamic fundamentalism because it justifies anything they want it to.
