{"id":11554,"date":"2011-09-11T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2011-09-11T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:04:43","slug":"epigrams-for-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/epigrams-for-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Epigrams for the War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this tenth anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks, here are a few epigrams plucked from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Terrorism-Tyranny-Trampling-Freedom-Justice\/dp\/1403966826\/ref=ed_oe_p\"><strong>Terrorism &amp; Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil<\/strong> <\/a>(Palgrave, 2003):<\/p>\n<p>Nothing happened on 9\/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot  Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.<\/p>\n<p>The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.<\/p>\n<p>There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.<\/p>\n<p> The U.S. government is far more efficient at making enemies than at defending Americans.<\/p>\n<p> Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.<\/p>\n<p> Perpetual war inevitably begets perpetual repression. It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.<\/p>\n<p> Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.<\/p>\n<p> In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us.<\/p>\n<p>Habeas corpus is an insurance policy to prevent governments from going berserk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this tenth anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks, here are a few epigrams plucked from Terrorism &amp; Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003): Nothing happened on 9\/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy. The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11556,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions\/11556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}