Salon.com Feb 22nd Article = Militia Demonization Psy-op

[Aden]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/22/militias/index.html

Quoted from the Glenn Greenwald Salon.com article:

"What was most remarkable about this allegedly "anti-government" movement was that -- with some isolated and principled exceptions -- it completely vanished upon the election of Republican George Bush, and it stayed invisible even as Bush presided over the most extreme and invasive expansion of federal government power in memory.  Even as Bush seized and used all of the powers which that movement claimed in the 1990s to find so tyrannical and unconstitutional -- limitless, unchecked surveillance activities, detention powers with no oversight, expanding federal police powers, secret prison camps, even massively exploding and debt-financed domestic spending -- they meekly submitted to all of it, even enthusiastically cheered it all on."

[Darth Chaos]

It's like they're saying us "anti-government" peeps were cheerleaders for the Bush Administration. Yellow journalism. The so-called "anti-government" people that Salon.com talk about with such disdain were among the most-vocal critics of the Bush Administration. Where did all the criticism of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, the REAL ID Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, and the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act - which were ALL SIGNED UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION - come from? The "anti-government" people who Salon.com just loves to demonize.

I just checked Salon.com's Wikipedia page. They're left-gatekeepers.

[InfoTruth]

Read the last 3 paragraphs of the article, he has a point. It looks like Beck and the right-wing media are trying to stir up some sort of rebellion for the goverment to declare martial law.