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A few sites are starting to get a story about how the "Domestic Terror Task Force" is being ressurected. '"But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home," Holder said in the video broadcast.'
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Subsentient on Wednesday June 04 2014, @03:42PM
Gotta say, this seems a lot like President Clark's time as ruler of the Earth Alliance. Next comes the Ministry of Peace and the Nightwatch,
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:38PM
In B5, beside Captain Sherdon and the breakway Earthforces, there were also internal movements to weaken and dethrone Sherdan (as seen when Clark's office is stormed, and again dealing with the aftermath just before Sherdon becomes President of the Interstellar Alliance). Furthermore, Clark brought things very very quickly after Santiago's assassination; in our world, this has been building up over the last decade and more, and each individual thing together has not been enough to cause total outrage. Collectively though ...
If things ever get to the point of a civil war, such a war would be so devistating that I fear to even imagine it ...
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:56PM
In the show, both big steps (breaking away from EA, and then taking an active offensive against Clark's forces) were predicated on something that's gone rather unremarked in the real world: Openly using military force against civilian targets. For us, it's used as an occasional Obama-bash rather than what it is: the sign that the US Gov't crossed the Moral Event Horizon [orain.org] (TVTropes (fork) warning)
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday June 05 2014, @05:30PM
More specifically, use of EA military against EA targets. With the exception of the downing of the Blackstar, Earth never really won a battle in Earth-Mibarai War. (we were doomed to loose the Battle of the Line until the Mimbari surrendered which is the entire plot of "The Sky, Full of Stars" in season 1). We do see the Centuari use mass drivers against Narn civilian targets, and the Shadow and Vorlons glass worlds that the other touched (the Vorlons were about to scorch Centuari Prime before the alliance started the battle between the Shadows and the Vorlon)
We never see the Diglar war itself, so its not clear if civilians were ever targeted by the EA, though given the end result of that war lead to (almost) Dilgar extinction ...
If the US military ever hit a US civilian target, then that would probably be significant cataylist to cause states and factions to try and breakaway in RL.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Thursday June 05 2014, @06:20PM
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday June 06 2014, @01:29AM
You mean something like bombing our own cities [democracynow.org]?
(Yeah, that wasn't technically the *military*, but a government bomb is a government bomb in my book...)