It's funnier when you think of what many of them asked for and later defended as a response to terrorism:
1. Secret people with secret surveillance of whole country.
2. Secret groups watching, kidnapping, renditioning, and/or assassinating their enemies (presumably terrorists).
3. Secret court with secret interpretations of law regulating those secret people.
4. Secret programs (SAP's/USAP's) doing billions of tax dollars work of secret stuff decided in secret by a handful of people.
5. Effective criminal immunity for all these people if whatever they did was ordered by those secret programs, groups, and/or people.
There's no secret government, though. No no no. We have a representative democracy here. Laws are passed. Executive fairly enforces them. Courts test them. There ain't no deep state. Just some people that can't talk about what they do that's all legal or at least justifiable only hurting the right people. Maybe I'm slow or just don't consume the right kind of mushrooms. I just keep thinking... given the above... there's de facto two or more governments running in parallel each doing their own thing with some interactions (eg parallel construction) that should also concern us. That one is full of professional con artists and killers with secrecy and criminal immunity should be scary enough in a democracy but few worry about that either.
1. Secret people with secret surveillance of whole country.
2. Secret groups watching, kidnapping, renditioning, and/or assassinating their enemies (presumably terrorists).
3. Secret court with secret interpretations of law regulating those secret people.
4. Secret programs (SAP's/USAP's) doing billions of tax dollars work of secret stuff decided in secret by a handful of people.
5. Effective criminal immunity for all these people if whatever they did was ordered by those secret programs, groups, and/or people.
There's no secret government, though. No no no. We have a representative democracy here. Laws are passed. Executive fairly enforces them. Courts test them. There ain't no deep state. Just some people that can't talk about what they do that's all legal or at least justifiable only hurting the right people. Maybe I'm slow or just don't consume the right kind of mushrooms. I just keep thinking... given the above... there's de facto two or more governments running in parallel each doing their own thing with some interactions (eg parallel construction) that should also concern us. That one is full of professional con artists and killers with secrecy and criminal immunity should be scary enough in a democracy but few worry about that either.