Between 1775 and 1994, the U.S. military has been utilized by the President on at least 136 occasions to contain and overwhelm labor “unrest” (80 times) and racial or civil “unrest” (56 times). [Sweeney, Jerry K., Ed. (1996). A Handbook of American Military History. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 3-269]. But “A Report Submitted to [...]
Counter Terrorism Under Reagan-Bush I
Reagan Launches Explicit Policy Using “Terror“ as Pretext for Repression
**December 4, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed 14 page Executive Order 12333, establishing operating procedures for the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies to restore domestic surveillance. ["This continued the trend toward increasing CIA power and White House support. In [...]
RE: Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
SEE Attachment: “The Politics of Fear – Living in a Terrorama Society”
Sam Adams, Mayor/Commissioner, samadams@ci.portland.or.us
Nick Fish, Commissioner, nick@ci.portland.or.us
Amanda Fritz, Commissioner, Amanda@ci.portland.or.us
Randy Leonard, Commissioner, randy@ci.portland.or.us
Dan Saltzman, Commissioner, dan@ci.portland.or.us
Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204
From the first Red Scare during World War I, to the present, our national history is [...]
The Politics of Fear – Living in a Terrorama Society
As a nation we have lived in the grip of induced fear now for most of a century, built largely on what have later been revealed as serious exaggerations of foreign or domestic enemies. The first Red Scare, 1917 to the mid-1920s, with vestigial repression until [...]
When I returned from Viet Nam in Fall 1969, while still in the military in Louisiana, I played the Simon and Garfunkel song “Bridge Over Troubled Water” over, and over, and over, almost every night for weeks. I still often play that song for my ears and heart to this day.
Here are the lyrics.
When you’re [...]
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