'The corporate state knows that the steady
deterioration of the economy and the increasingly savage effects of
climate change will create widespread social instability. It knows that
rage will mount as the elites squander diminishing resources while the
poor, as well as the working and middle classes, are driven into
destitution.
It wants to have the legal measures to keep
us cowed, afraid and under control. It does not, I suspect, trust the
police to maintain order. And this is why, contravening two centuries of
domestic law, it has seized for itself the authority to place the
military on city streets and citizens in military detention centers,
where they cannot find redress in the courts. The shredding of our
liberties is being done in the name of national security and the fight
against terrorism.
But the NDAA is not about protecting us. It
is about protecting the state from us. That is why no one in the
executive or legislative branch is going to restore our rights. The new
version of the NDAA, like the old ones, provides our masters with the
legal shackles to make our resistance impossible. And that is their
intention.'
