{"id":336,"date":"2006-06-05T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-07-19T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T22:11:07","slug":"how-convenient-to-have-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"How convenient to have a war"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first things that troubled me about the Bush administration happened well before 9\/11. An executive order was issued to label public records from both the Clinton and the previous Bush administration “top secret”\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0keep them\u00c2\u00a0hidden\u00c2\u00a0for many decades to come. Among other things,\u00c2\u00a0some of these\u00c2\u00a0records could shed light on the first George Bush’s knowledge of the Irangate scandal.<\/p>\n

Today’s story<\/a> is nothing new to those paying attention but it demostrates how convenient the War on Terror has been for an administration intent on hiding its actions from the public. It reminds me of the distopian future in George Orwell’s novel 1984<\/em> which conjured up an authoritiarian government at constant war. The war justified bugging every phone and placing television cameras in every room\u00c2\u00a0of its citizen’s\u00c2\u00a0houses to ferret out any dangerous disloyalty.<\/p>\n

Not every bug was being listened to in the novel but\u00c2\u00a0this security\u00c2\u00a0loophole could\u00c2\u00a0soon be remedied by computers. All we need to keep the state’s business secret and ours public is the justification a war provides. Since no other nation presents much of a militarily threat to us\u00c2\u00a0these days its convenient that we\u00c2\u00a0have terrorists out there to menace us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the first things that troubled me about the Bush administration happened well before 9\/11. An executive order was issued to label public…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-leagues","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}