The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)

[G_j]

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175720/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_oed_of_the_national_security_state/#more

The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)
Definitions for a New Age
By Tom Engelhardt

In the months after September 11, 2001, it was regularly said that “everything” had changed. It’s a claim long forgotten, buried in everyday American life. Still, if you think about it, in the decade-plus that followed -- the years of the PATRIOT Act, “enhanced interrogation techniques,” “black sites,” robot assassination campaigns, extraordinary renditions, the Abu Ghraib photos, the Global War on Terror, and the first cyberwar in history -- much did change in ways that should still stun us. Perhaps nothing changed more than the American national security state, which, spurred on by 9/11 and the open congressional purse strings that followed, grew in ways that would have been alien even at the height of the Cold War, when there was another giant, nuclear-armed imperial power on planet Earth.

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Classification: The process of declaring just about any document produced by any branch of the U.S. government -- 92 million of them in 2011 -- unfit for unclassified eyes. (This term may, in the near future, be retired once no documents produced within, or captured by, the government and its intelligence agencies can be seen or read by anyone not given special clearance.)

Journalist: Someone who aids and abets terrorists, traitors, defectors, and betrayers hidden within our government as they work to accomplish their grand plan to undermine the security of the country.

Whistleblower: A homegrown terrorist.

Leak: Information homegrown terrorists slip to journalists to undermine the American way of life and aid and abet the enemy. A recent example would be the National Security Agency (NSA) documents Booz Allen employee Edward Snowden leaked to the media. According to two unnamed U.S. intelligence officials speaking to the Associated Press, “[M]embers of virtually every terrorist group, including core al-Qaida, are attempting to change how they communicate, based on what they are reading in the media [of Snowden’s revelations], to hide from U.S. surveillance.” A clarification: two anonymous intelligence officials communicating obviously secret material to AP reporter Kimberly Dozier does not qualify as a “leak,” but as necessary information for Americans to absorb. In addition, those officials undoubtedly had further secret intelligence indicating that their information, unlike Snowden’s, would be read only by Americans and ignored by al-Qaeda-style terrorists who will not change their actions based on it. As a result, this cannot qualify as aiding or abetting the enemy.

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The Global War on You (GWOY): This term, not yet in the language, is designed to replace a post-9/11 Bush administration name, the Global War on Terror (GWOT), sometimes also called World War IV by neocons. GWOT was famously retired by President Obama and his top officials, turning the ongoing global war being fought on distant battlefields and in the shadows into a nameless war. That may, however, change. You are, after all, being called to the colors in a war on... you. Congratulations, son or daughter, Uncle Sam wants you (even if not in the way he used to in your grandparents’ day). You, after all, are the central figure in and the key to GWOY and the basis upon which the new global security state will continue to be built.

... Much more...

[Berlum]

1. "Move along. Nothing to see here." - Your Security State, Inc.

[xchrom]

2. du rec.

[LisaLynne]

3. Heh, I like it.

Call it what it is, not what they want us to call it.

[WinkyDink]

4. It has ALWAYS been the SAME entity. But hey: Nobody listened when GHWB actually used the term "New

World Order." Nobody but the Elites who meet at the Finally-Acknowledged-By-Heretofore-Tinfoil-Hat-Name-Callers Bilderburg mtgs.

Nobody cared when the Project for a New American Century essentially called for "a new Pearl Harbor." Nobody but the Elites.

Nobody cared when RFID technology was claimed essential for store inventories, then libraries, then pets, then old people with Alzheimer's,....

[G_j]

5. it just grows,

and grows....

[WinkyDink]

6. I wish they'd hurry with the Soma!

[G_j]

7. yea. What's up with that?

possibly the only "pleasent" aspect of being led over a cliff..

[G_j]

8. K