Some nine years after the attacks, we the people are picking an odd time to wake up to our lost freedoms; an odd time and an odd target for our national frustration. At a time when international security forces, the U.S. military, NATO, and others have pushed terrorists networks to their breaking point, the ability of those networks to deliver weapons against U.S. domestic targets is greatly diminished. As a result, those networks have resorted to difficult and unreliable delivery systems; you may have heard about them, underwear and shoes. Like all of the other times that intelligence has caught on to a new way of killing Americans, our security has adopted new ways of stopping those methods.
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Secrets And Lies
The issues relating to the theft and release of millions of secret documents has dominated news cycles for months now. Should governments have secrets, what limits exist on freedom of the press, and what defines national security? I would argue that another issue, lying just below the surface, is fueling this story. Is the United States government ours, or is it somehow some outside entity bent on malevolent control? If this is still the government of we the people, then only a hypocrite would suggest it not be permitted secrecy. In fact, it is my argument that many who line up now to cheer the perpetrators of this theft are indeed hypocrites.
Terrorists And Miranda
Most of America knows what the Miranda rights are, we hear them every time we watch a police procedural show on television. The product of a 1960′s Supreme Court case, Miranda vs. Arizona, it mandates that a suspect be told his or her rights before an interrogation, lest the results of that interrogation be inadmissible… (read more)
Rational Politics Chapter 6: Liberty, Terror, And Schizophrenia
The great American author, Tom Clancy, noted in the epilogue to The Sum Of All Fears that it was not probable that any free democracy could prevent a terrorist event using weapons of mass destruction. Since 9/11, most of the nation’s best analysts, through interviews on television or in print, have repeatedly stated that another… (read more)
Nukes And National Security
With the announcement last week of the United State’s new nuclear posture, and the opening this week of the 47 nation nuclear weapons summit, President Obama has opened the door to an old debate; nuclear weapons and national security. In addition, the Senate will now consider the ratification of the arms control treaty agreed to… (read more)
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