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  Chapter 7

  THE NEW POLICE STATE

  Big Brother Is All Grown Up

  PAGE 126: “‘It has a vaguely Teutonic ring’” Peggy Noonan, “Rudy’s Duty,” Opinion Journal, wsj.com, June 14, 2002, http://www.peggynoonan.com/article.php?article=149. • “the act has been misused on numerous occasions” David Johnston, “Justice Department Says F.B.I. Misused Patriot Act,” nytimes.com, March 9, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/washington/09cnd-fbi.html.

  PAGE 127: “would have caused it to expire” Jim Abrams, “Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama,” Huff Post Politics, huffingtonpost.com, May 27, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html • “ability to monitor individual actions” Jim Abrams, “Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama,” Huff Post Politics, The Huffington Post online, May 27, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html. • “‘temporary government program.’” Lanny Ebenstein, Milton Friedman: A Biography (New York: Palgrave MacMillian), 194. • “dropped at the first opportunity” Gail Russell Chaddock, “Patriot Act: Three Controversial Provisions that Congress Voted to Keep,” csmonitor.com, May 27, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0527/Patriot-Act-three-controversial-provisions-that-Congress-voted-to-keep.

  PAGE 128: “‘it is the creed of slaves’” Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s. v. “William Pitt, the Elder,” accessed April 29, 2012, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/462131/William-Pitt-the-Elder/462131suppinfo/Supplemental-Information. • “‘hobgoblins, all of them imaginary’” Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (New York: HarperCollins, 1980), 647. • “authorizing the internment of American citizens.” “Executive Order 9066,” National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=219, accessed April 24, 2012.

  PAGE 129: “‘to internal and less dangerous areas’” Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066, “Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas,” fdrlibrary.marist.edu, accessed April 11, 2012, http://bit.ly/IAETs8. • “‘and to hell with habeas corpus’” “The Perilous Fight: Asian Americans,” pbs.org, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/social/asian_americans. • “allowed him to criminalized political dissent” “Alien and Sedition Acts,” Library of Congress, Primary Documents in American History, accessed April 10, 2012, http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Alien.html. • “set up military tribunals for civilians” David Greenberg, “Lincoln’s Crackdown,” slate.com, November 30, 2001, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2001/11/lincolns_crackdown.html. • “Wilson argued that this power was” “Wilson and Censorship of the Press,” The woodrowwilson.org, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.woodrowwilson.org/wilson-and-censorship-of-the-press. • “generally being restored after each crisis” Brian A. Jackson, ed., The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society (Rand Corporation, 2009), 90.

  PAGE 130-131: “until the danger is over.” “The Perilous Fight: Asian Americans,” pbs.org, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/social/asian_americans.

  PAGE 132: “cost between $400,000 to $500,000” Gregg Carlstrom, “Interactive: How much did 9/11 cost the U.S?” aljazeera.com, September 1, 2011, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/the911decade/2011/08/201183083713316460.html.

  PAGE 133: “threat to civil liberties Americans face” Erik Kain, “The National Defense Authorization Act if the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face,” forbes.com, December 5, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2062646/Naked-airport-X-ray-body-scanners-banned-Europe-cancer-fears.html. • “because of cancer concerns” Sarah Gordon, “Europe bans ‘naked’ airport scanners over cancer fears,” dailymail.co.uk, November 17, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2062646/Naked-airport-X-ray-body-scanners-banned-Europe-cancer-fears.html. • “absolutely staggering price tag” Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, “Top Secret America: A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control,” washingtonpost.com, July 19, 2010, http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control. • “much of its effort domestically” Jane Mayer, “The Secret Sharer,”newyorker.com, May 23, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer. • “our country has changed” Radley Balko, “A Decade After 9/11, Police Departments Are Increasingly Militarized,” Huff Post Crime, huffingtonpost.com, September 12, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/police-militarization-9-11-september-11_n_955508.html. • “disregard of the First” Spying on First Amendment Activity—State-by-State. American Civil Liberties Union online, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.aclu.org/maps/spying-first-amendment-activity-state-state. • “and Fourth” David K. Shipler, “Free to Search and Seize,” The New York Times online, June 22, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/opinion/23shipler.html. • “thanks to a law passed in 2005” Glenn Greenwald, “The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous, cato-unbound.org, August 9, 2010, http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/53-53/2638-greenwald-the-digital-surveillance-state-vast-secret-and-dangerous.

  PAGE 134: “warrantless domestic surveillance” Charlie Savage and James Risen, “Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps were Illegal,” nytimes.com, March 31, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html. • “warrantless wiretapping a felony” Greenwald, “The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous, http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/08/09/glenn-greenwald/the-digital-surveillance-state-vast-secret-and-dangerous. • “have their communications intercepted,” Roger Wollenberg, “NSA Has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls,” usatoday.com, May 11, 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm. • “completely changed his mind” “Restrict Warrantless Wiretaps,” The Obameter, politifact.com, accessed April 10, 2012, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/180/end-warrantless-wiretaps.

  PAGE 135: “‘outweighed by real-life benefits.’” Eric Lichtblau, “Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool,” nytimes.com, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html. • “seized his laptop and mobile phone” House v. Napolitano et al. Case No. 1:11-cv-10852-DJC (March 28, 2012), justia.com, http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/massachusetts/madce/1:2011cv10852/136563/24, accessed April 24, 2012. • “Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply there” Katherine A. Helm and Joel Cohen, “The Risks of Taking Your Electronic Devices Abroad,” law.com, February 13, 2012, http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202542075808&The_Risks_of_Taking_Your_Electronic_Devices_Abroad. • “and in an ongoing manner” Katherine A. Helm and Joel Cohen, “The Risks of Taking Your Electronic Devices Abroad,” law.com, February 13, 2012, http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202542075808&The_Risks_of_Taking_Your_Electronic_Devices_Abroad. • “Western interests and civilians” Patrick Sawer and David Barrett, “Detroit Bomber’s Mentor Continues to Influence British Mosques and Universities,” telegraph.co.uk, January 2, 2010, http://bit.ly/IjOk1M.

  PAGE 136: “fiery, angry jihadi loon” Ted Jeory, “Library Ban on Sermons of Hate,” express.co.uk, January 10, 2010, http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/150772/Library-ban-on-sermons-of-hate. • “administration in American history” Barack Obama, “Transparency and Open Government,” Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, Whitehouse.gov, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment. • “least transparent administrations” Josh Gerstein, “ Obama Least Transparent of Last 6 Administrations,” nation.foxnews.com, March 5, 2012, http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/03/05/obamaleast-transparent-last-6-administrations. • “bemoaned by plenty of Democrats” Conor Friedersdorf, “The Obama Administration’s Abject Failure on Transparency,” theatlantic.com, February 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a
rchive/2012/02/the-obama-administrations-abject-failure-on-transparency/252387/. • “privately deciding his fate” Charlie Savage, “Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen,” nytimes.com, October 8, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html. • “that Awlaki would die” Glenn Greenwald, “Anwar al-Awlaki: Execution by Secret WH Committee,” salon.com, October 6, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/10/06/execution_by_secret_wh_committee/singleton. • “We don’t know what the criteria” Mark Hosenball, “Secret Panel Can Put Americans On ‘Kill List,’” reuters.com online, October 5, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005. • “the answer of course is” Micah Zenko, “The Obama Administration and Targeted Killings: ‘Trust us,’” Global Public Square blog at cnn.com, March 7, 2012, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/07/the-obama-administration-and-targeted-killings-trust-us. • “was also blown up” Hakim Almasmari, “Official: Drone Attack Kills Al-Awlaki’s Son in Yemen,” cnn.com, October 15, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-15/middleeast/world_meast_yemen-drone-attack_1_anwar-al-awlaki-drone-attack-drone-strike. • “the size of five Capitol buildings” James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say),” wired.com, March 15, 2012, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1.

  PAGE 137: “approximately one yottabyte” “Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes. . . What are They?” whatsabyte.com, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.whatsabyte.com. • “to the complete disregard for it” Jane Mayer, “The Secret Sharer,” newyorker.com, May 23, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer. • “‘abuse of authority in government’” Joe Davidson, “Whistleblowers May Have a Friend in the Oval Office,” washingtonpost.com, December 11, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003364_pf.html. • “whistleblowers in recent history” Mark Benjamin, “WikiLeakers and Whistle-Blowers: Obama’s Hard Line,” time.com, March 11, 2011, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2058340,00.html.

  PAGE 138: “Bush is probably like, Whoa” Matthew Harwood, “NSA whistle-blower: Obama ‘worse than Bush,’” salon.com, March 7, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/03/07/nsa_whistle_blower_obama_worse_than_bush. • “‘not reasonably possible to identify the number.’” Pete Yost, “National Intelligence Office Unsure How Many Calls, Emails, Monitored,” Huff Post Denver, huffingtonpost.com, July 28, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/national-intelligence-office-wiretaps_n_912799.html.

  PAGE 139: “threatened or arrested” Farnaz Fasshini “Iranian Crackdown Goes Global,” The Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125978649644673331.html. • “turnkey totalitarian state.” James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center,” Wired.com, March 15, 2012, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 • “deserve neither liberty nor safety” Historical Review of Pennsylvania (London: R. Griffiths, 1759). • “‘false choice’” Erik Dahl, “Domestic Intelligence Today: More Security but Less Liberty?” hsah.com, http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=7.2.8.

  PAGE 140: “managed to board a plane” Lindsey Ellerson, “Obama: Intelligence Community Failed to ‘Connect the Dots’ in a ‘Potentially Disastrous Way,’” Political Punch blog at abcnews.go.com, January 5, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/01/obama-intelligence-community-failed-to-connect-the-dots-in-a-potentially-disastrous-way. • “‘is a simple database search.’” Mario Aguilar, “Scary Fast Surveillance System Scans 36 Million Faces a Second,” gizmodo.com, March 23, 2012, http://gizmodo.com/5895831/scary-fast-surveillance-system-scans-36-million-faces-a-second. • “‘took a long pause and replied, ‘London?’’” Howard Kurtz, “James Clapper’s Intel Slip,” thedailybeast.com, December 21, 2010, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/21/how-did-james-clapper-obamas-intel-chief-not-know-about-a-major-bomb-plot.html.

  PAGE 141: “they could access her account,” Louis Peitzman, “Student Sues School District Over Illegal Search of Her Facebook Page,” gawker.com, March 10, 2012, http://gawker.com/5892221/student-sues-school-district-over-illegal-search-of-her-facebook-page. • “log into their Facebook accounts” “Facebook Passwords of Applicants Demanded by Colleges, Government Agencies,” Huff Post Tech, huffingtonpost.com, March 6, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/facebook-passwords-colleges_n_1323759.html. • “online behavior can be monitored” Bob Sullivan, “Government Agencies, Colleges Demand Applicants’ Facebook Passwords,” redtape.msnbc.msn.com, March 6, 2012, http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10585353-govt-agencies-colleges-demand-applicants-facebook-passwords.

  Chapter 8

  JIM WALLIS AND THE ATTEMPTED HIJACKING OF RELIGION

  PAGE 144: “‘politicians adjust to the change in the wind’” Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006), 22.

  PAGE 147: “‘evils which vex our civilization shall disappear’” Mark Tooley, Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century (Fort Valley: Bristol House, 2012), 13-14. • “‘rich men of America’” Mark Tooley, Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century (Fort Valley: Bristol House, 2012), 15. • “‘abatement of poverty’” Gene TeSelle, “The Social Creed of 1908 Updated for 21st Century,” pubtheo.com, May 8, 2009, http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?PID=1362. • “Other groups. . .also went on to endorse the creed” Robert Moats Miller, American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 31.

  PAGE 148: “‘conceive to be the good of humanity’” Robert Moats Miller, American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 41. • “‘high a percentage of Socialists as can the ministry’” Robert Moats Miller, American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 64. • “‘economic processes for the common good’” Robert Moats Miller, American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 64. • “‘twilight of the gods of capitalism’” Robert Moats Miller, American Protestantism and Social Issues 1919-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 67, 75, 82.

  PAGE 149: “‘an act of blasphemy’” Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb, Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1986), 121, 132, 133. • “which hailed him as ‘Brother Ortega’” Mark Tooley, Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century (Fort Valley: Bristol House, 2012), 276. • “enthusiastically met with Fidel Castro at the Cuban Mission to the UN” National Council of Churches, “End Embargo Against Cuba, Agree Castro, U.S. Church Leaders,” news release, October 26, 1995. • “one of the seven largest Mainline Protestant churches” The Association of Religion Data Archives, TheARDA.com. • “By 2012, it was less than one in fifteen” Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 2011 (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011), 363-373.

  PAGE 153: “‘made some difference in the outcome of the default debate’” Jim Wallis, “The Moral Default,” sojo.net, August 4, 2011, http://sojo.net/sojomail/2011/08/04. • “‘discussions on the role of religion in politics’” Laurie Goodstein, “Without a Pastor of His Own, Obama Turns to Five,” New York Times, March 14, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15pastor.html. • “‘to control the destiny of Indochina had been thwarted’” Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right: The Religious Left: Who They Are and What They Believe (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 58.

  PAGE 154: “‘The community organizing stuff is real’” Laurie Goodstein, “Without a Pastor of His Own, Obama Turns to Five,” New York Times, March 14, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15pastor.html. • “Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America” Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Ne
w York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006), back cover. • “public Lenten fast to protest ‘cuts’” Amy Sullivan, “Religious Leaders Launch Fast to Protest Budget Cuts,” Swampland blog at time.com, March 28, 2011, http://swampland.time.com/2011/03/28/religious-leaders-launch-fast-to-protest-budget-cuts. • “‘will go to bed hungry each night if these cuts pass’” Justin Ruben, “Why I’m Fasting Against the Budget Cuts,” dailykos.com, April 1, 2011, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/01/962436/-Why-I-m-Fasting-Against-the-Budget-Cuts-.

  PAGE 155: “‘future of poor and vulnerable people have crossed a moral line’” Jim Wallis, “Why I Am Beginning to Fast Today,” God’s Politics blog at sojo.net, March 28, 2011, http://sojo.net/blogs/2011/03/28/why-i-am-beginning-fast-today. • “‘attacked for ‘declaring war’ on the safety net’” Brian Riedl, “Myths of Tax Cuts for Rich, Spending Cuts for Poor,” Heritage.org, May 3, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2011/05/myths-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-spending-cuts-for-poor. • “‘they will continue to go hungry’” “Hungerfast to End on Easter Sunday; Budget Protest Continues,” womenthrive.org, April 21, 2011, http://www.womenthrive.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=963&Itemid=46.

  PAGE 156: “‘hurts veterans and the elderly and the children and women’s rights’” “The Day – Moby and MoveOn Protest Budget Cuts on the Poor,” moveon.org, April 11, 2011, http://front.moveon.org/why-were-fasting-against-the-immoral-budget. • “as ‘bullies,’ ‘corrupt,’ and ‘hypocrites’” Jim Wallis, “Woe to You, Legislators!” huffingtonpost.com, April 14, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/woe-to-you-legislators_b_849300.html. • “‘commitment to civil discourse in our nation’s public life’” Jim Wallis and Chuck Colson, “Conviction and Civility: We Should Not Lose This Moment for Reflection and Renewal,” christianitytoday.com, January 1, 2011, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/januaryweb-only/convictioncivility.html. • “‘isn’t just irresponsible—it’s immoral’” Jim Wallis, “Breaking: Obama Meets with Faith Leaders on Budget Crisis,” God’s Politics blog at sojo.net, July 20, 2011, http://sojo.net/blogs/2011/07/20/breaking-obama-meets-faith-leaders-budget-crisis.