'Merica the Suspicious

Today's Democracy Now broadcast features the former intelligence officer, William Arkin. He writes/blogs for the Washington Post under the title Early Warning. He talks and blogs about the use of Department of Defense intelligence apparati to surveil peace activists and war resistors in the United States. This does not come as a surprise to me. However, it violates the basic function of a standing army and drives our society closer to the year 1984. Arkin makes the point that the United States itself, as a territory, is a battleground in the war on terror and "we are the potential enemy."