PAGE 60: "'through climate policy than through direct foreign aid'" Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein, "Climate Change Justice" (working paper, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, August 2007), 19.
PAGE 61: "'It's just right there. I'm telling you'" morgenr, "The Public Plan Deception It's Not About Choice," youtube.com, May 20, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E. * "'victims turning persecutors'" George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush's War in Iraq (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004). * "'bringing Hamas into the peace process'" George Soros, "On Israel, America, and Aipac," The New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/apr/12/on-israel-america-and-aipac. * "'organization overwhelmingly made up of Democrats'" Jennifer Rubin, "AIPAC's Chief: Obama Is Wrong about a Bunch of Stuff," Right Turn blog at washingtonpost.com, March 5, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/aipacs-chief-obama-is-wrong-about-a-bunch-of-stuff/2012/03/05/gIQAUlfmsR_blog.html. * "'new direction for American policy in the Middle East'" Jstreet.org, "Privacy Policy," accessed April 17, 2012, http://jstreet.org/privacy_policy.
PAGE 62: "'been an obstacle to peace'" JStreet.org, "Settlements," jstreet.org, accessed April 17, 2012, http://jstreet.org/page/settlements. * "objected to Jewish settlements in Jerusalem" Mark Landler and Ethan Bronner, "In Curt Exchange, U.S. Faults Israel on Housing," New York Times, November 9, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/world/middleeast/10jerusalem.html. * "given a total of $750,000 to J Street" Eli Lake, Soros Revealed as Funder of Liberal Jewish American Lobby," Washington Times, September 24, 2010, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-liberal-jewish-american-lobby. * "'change is too sudden and carries too many risks'" George Soros, "Why Obama has to get Egypt Right," georgesoros.com, February 3, 2011, http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right.
PAGE 63: "'at the hand of the believers [i.e., Muslims]'" Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, "Allah Willing, the Next Time Will Be at the Hand of the Believers," memritv.org, January 30, 2009, http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2005.htm. * "'or the sole representative of the Jewish community'" George Soros, "Why Obama has to get Egypt Right," georgesoros.com, February 3, 2011, http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right. * "statement from the group Faith in Public Life" Marcus Feldman, "Fox Still Won't Acknowledge that Americans Support Insurance Coverage for Contraception," mediamatters.org, March 1, 2012, http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010025. * "co-founded by Jim Wallis" Faith in Public Life, "Background," faithinpubliclife.org, accessed April 17, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web/20070106034458/http://www.faithinpubliclife.org/about/background.html.
Chapter 4.
ECONOMIC TERRORISM.
FINANCIAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
PAGE 66: "'aware of the lines in their own hands'" Kevin Freeman, "The Weapons of Our Warfare," humanevents.com, January 18, 2012, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48871.
PAGE 67: "global economy had lost close to $50 trillion" Kevin Hechtkopf, "Summers: $50 Trillion In Global Wealth Has Been Erased," EconWatch blog at cbsnews.com, March 13, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-4863891-503983.html. * "compelling evidence of outside manipulation" Bill Gertz, "Financial Terrorism Suspected in 2008 Economic Crash: Pentagon Study Sees Element," Washington Times, February 28, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/28/financial-terrorism-suspected-in-08-economic-crash. * "'Nobody wants to go there'" Bill Gertz, "Financial Terrorism Suspected in 2008 Economic Crash: Pentagon Study Sees Element," Washington Times, February 28, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/28/financial-terrorism-suspected-in-08-economic-crash. * "how our enemies might harm our economy" Kevin D. Freeman, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why "It Can Happen Again" (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012), 180.
PAGE 68: "money, livestock, land, and possessions for the food Joseph had stored" Dr. Gary North, "Was Joseph an Immoral Ruler?" Biblical Economics Today 14, no. 2 (Feb./March 1992), http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/a_pdfs/newslet/bet/9202.pdf. * "Napoleon was also a big fan of economic weaponry" Tor Egil Frland, "The History of Economic Warfare: International Law, Effectiveness, Strategies," Journal of Peace Research 30, no. 2 (May 1993) 151-162. * "'chain reaction that eventually led to the attack on Pearl Harbor" Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Grand Alliance, Volume 3 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950) 426-427. * "counterfeited British currency in the hopes of destroying their economy" Andreas Schroeder, Scams!: True Stories From the Edge (Toronto: Annick Press Ltd., 2004) 7287; Larry Allen, The Encyclopedia of Money (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO LLC, 2009), 306. * "if they did not withdraw their troops from the Suez Canal" James P. Hubbard, The United States and the End of British Colonial Rule in Africa, 1941-1968 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010) 15354. * "oil embargo against the U.S. and Israel in 1973" U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian "OPEC Oil Embargo, 1973-1974," Milestones:1969-1976 in history.state.gov, accessed April 6, 2012, http://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/OPEC. * "break the 'Evil Empire' of the Soviet Union" Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996), xviii. * "short the British pound and 'break the Bank of England'" David Litterick, "Billionaire who broke the Bank of England," The Daily Telegraph, September 13, 2002, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773265/Billionaire-who-broke-the-Bank-of-England.html. * "North Koreans have been counterfeiting" David Rose, "North Korea's Dollar Store," Vanity Fair, August 5, 2009, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/09/office-39-200909.
PAGE 69: "economic warfare approach against Iran" Pepe Escobar, "US Wants SWIFT War On Iran," Middle East blog at atimes.com, February 17, 2012, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB17Ak04.html. * "our national debt could be extinguished within a decade" "President Clinton: The United States on Track to Pay Off the Debt by End of the Decade," clinton4nara.gov, December 28, 2000, http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Dec_29_151111_2000.html. * "'Unrestricted Warfare'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002). * "'slaves to technology in [our] thinking'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 15. * "'in the ranks of new concept weapons'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 16.
PAGE 70: "'military thinking and the methods of operation'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 122. * "'that George Soros is not a financial terrorist'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 36. * "'rather, it will be George Soros'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 39.
PAGE 71: "'social panic, street riots, and a political crisis'" Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Panama City: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 122-123. * "the Chinese currently holds a staggering $3 trillion in foreign reserves" "China's Foreign Exchange Reserves, 1977-2011: Foreign-Exchange Reserves Reached US $3.2 Trillion in December 2011," chinability.com, accessed April 7, 2012, http://www.chinability.com/Reserves.htm. * "(more than $1 trillion by China)" SWF Institute, "Sovereign Wealth Fund Rankings," swfinstitute.org, accessed April 7 2012, http://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings. * "this wealth has been accumulated since the year 2000" Tina Aridas, "Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) 2010 Ranking," gfmag.com, http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/10300-largest-sovereign-wealth-funds-swf-2010-ranking.html (accessed April 7, 2012). * "'Why then would they shy away from economic warfare?'" Kevin D. Freeman, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012), 210. * "vice chairman of the Central Military Commission" Lev Navrozov, "China's Gen Chi: U.S. Easily Defeated," newsmax.com, December 10, 2009, http://www.newsmax.com/navrozov/china-haotian-chi/2009/12/10/id/339799.
PAGE 72: "it was estimated that he had 'several billion' dollars" richwebnews, "Gaddafi's Libya Wealth Estimated in Several Billions," allvoices.com, February 23, 2011, http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8281804-gaddafis-libya-wealth-estimated-in-several-billions. * "$200 billion in Western markets" Paul Richter, "Gaddafi Salted Away About $200 Billion," Sidney Morning Herald, October 22, 2011, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/gaddafi-salted-away-about-200-billion-20111022-1md9z.html. * "four times the estimated wealth of Warren Buffett" "The World's Billionaires," Forbes.com, http://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett, accessed April 24, 2012. * "When prices collapsed, so did their economy" Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996), xviii. * "As the world's largest consumer of oil, the United States" "The World's Top Consumers and Producers of Oil," cnn.com, June 3, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/oil.map/index.html. * "'adds almost $60 billion to annual consumer bills'" Ross DeVol, "The $110 Effect: What Higher Gas Prices Could Really Do to the Economy," theatlantic.com, March 13, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-110-effect-what-higher-gas-prices-could-really-do-to-the-economy/254386/. * "$147.50 in mid-2008" "Timeline: Half a Century of Oil Price Volatility," reuters.com, November 20, 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/20/us-oil-prices-idUKTRE4AJ3ZR20081120. * "estimated $1 trillion in additional dollars was paid by the West" Kevin D. Freeman, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012), 73.
PAGE 73: "'warranted by ordinary commercial transactions'" Kevin D. Freeman, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012), 73. * "'They don't know who holds what positions'" "Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?" 60 Minutes, April 14, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4713382n. "'the weapon of oil or Silah al Naft'" Walid Phares, "OPEC War Against America's Economic Independence?" counterterrorismblog.org, October 10, 2008, http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/10/opec_war_against_americas_econ.php. * "'absolute necessity to use that weapon'" Walid Phares, "OPEC's Heavy Hand" humanevents.com, October 10, 2008, http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/10/opec_war_against_americas_econ.php. * "Iran believes this will eventually spell the end for the dollar" Sharmine Narwani, "How Iran Changed the World," al-akhbar.com, February 17, 2012, http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/4308. * "the rest of the world may agree" Garry White, "Iran Presses Ahead with Dollar Attack," The Daily Telegraph, February 12, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/9077600/Iran-presses-ahead-with-dollar-attack.html. * "'force down the price of a security or commodity by sustained selling'" "dictionary.com, "Bear Raid," http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bear+raid (accessed April 8, 2012).
PAGE 74: "'once in 4 billion years'" Vedant Misra, Marco Lagi, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, "Evidence of Market Manipulation in the Financial Crisis" (report, New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, January 3, 2012), http://necsi.edu/research/economics/bearraid.pdf. * "'hitting the U.S. economy through all possible means'" James Pethokoukis, "Al Qaeda's Failed War on the U.S. Economy," Money blog at usnews.com, September 11, 2008, http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/09/11/al-qaedas-failed-war-on-the-us-economy. * "'the destruction of the American economy'" James Pethokoukis, "Al Qaeda's Failed War on the U.S. Economy," Money blog at usnews.com, September 11, 2008, http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/09/11/al-qaedas-failed-war-on-the-us-economy.
PAGE 75: "'through all possible means.'" James Pethokoukis, "Al Qaeda's Failed War on the U.S. Economy," Money blog at usnews.com, September 11, 2008, http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/09/11/al-qaedas-failed-war-on-the-us-economy.
PAGE 76: "'the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it'" "Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in 'Electronic Run on the Banks'," liveleak.com, February 7, 2009, http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca2_1234032281. * "perpetrators aren't always caught" Zachary A. Goldfarb, "SEC Faults Its Handling Of Tips on Short Sales," Washington Post, March 19, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/AR2009031803459.html. * "'linked to naked short selling'" Gary Matsumoto, "Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman (Update 1)," bloomberg.com, March 19, 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aB1jlqmFOTCA.
PAGE 77: "'could tank major companies'" Andy Kessler, "Have We Seen the Last of the Bear Raids?: The Short-Sellers Probably Saved Us Five to 10 Years of Poor Bank Earnings," Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802165000541773.html. * "'financial weapons of mass destruction'" James B. Kelleher, "Buffett's 'Time Bomb' Goes off on Wall Street,"reuters.com, September 18, 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/09/18/us-derivatives-credit-idUSN1837154020080918. * "also pumping trillions of dollars into the system" David Goldman, "CNNMoney.com's Bailout Tracker," cnn.com, November 16, 2009, http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker. * "'U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency'" Keith B. Richburg "China, Other Developing BRICS Nations Seek Change in Global Economic Order," Washington Post, April 14, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-other-developing-brics-nations-seek-change-in-global-economic-order/2011/04/14/AFarMgdD_story.html. * "infiltrate. . .the stock market and several key utilities" "Napolitano: Hackers 'Came Close to Shutting Down Critical Infrastructure," homelandsecuritynewswire.com, October 28, 2011, http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/napolitano-hackers-came-close-shutting-down-critical-infrastructure. * "hackers to infiltrate. . .NASA" Defense Systems Staff, "IG Finds more than 5,400 Cybersecurity Incidents at NASA," defensesystems.com, March 6, 2012, http://defensesystems.com/articles/2012/03/06/agg-nasa-cyberattack.aspx.
PAGE 78: "'likely a single group acting on behalf of a government'" John Ribeiro, "McAfee on a Mammoth Cyberattack, Hackers Compromised 72 Organizations Since 2006," networkworld.com, August 3, 2011, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080311-mcafee-hackers-compromised-72-organizations.html. * "including our satellite systems" Melanie Eversley, "'Suspicious Events' with Satellite Confirmed," USA Today, October 28, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/10/nasa-confirms-satellites-were-hacked/1. * "'plans for their own advantage'" Tom Gjelten, "U.S. Not Afraid to Say It: China's the Cyber Bad Guy," npr.org, February 18, 2012, http://www.npr.org/2012/02/18/147077148/chinas-hacking-of-u-s-remains-a-top-concern. * "disseminated it to anyone in the world" US v. Sergey Aleynikov, 737 F.Supp.2nd 173 (2010). * "convicted of stealing trade secrets" Patricia Hurtado, "Ex-Goldman Programmer Freed After Theft Conviction Thrown Out," bloomberg.com, February 18, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/ex-goldman-programmer-s-conviction-overturned-on-appeal.html. * "a 'disruptive scheme' to surgically target the American economy" Robert Wenzel, "Paulson: Russia Tried to Get China to Blow Up Fannie and Freddie," economicpolicyjournal.com, January 29, 2010, http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/paulson-russia-tried-to-get-china-to.html. * "'emergency authority to prop up these companies'" Michael McKee and Alex Nicholson, "Paulson Says Russia Urged China to Dump Fannie, Freddie Bonds," bloomberg.com, January 29, 2010, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afbSjYv3v814. * "'held nearly $500 billion of those bonds, did not sell'" Aaron Back, "Much Ado in China About Fannie and Freddie," China Real Time blog at wsj.com, February 12, 2011, http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/02/12/much-ado-in-china-about-fannie-and-freddie.
PAGE 79: "'closure of the file-sharing website Megaupload'" Rebecca Seales, "'This Is Just the Beginning: Hacking Group Anonymous Takes Over Greek Ministry of Justice Website and Warns Other Governments Are in Its Sights," Daily Mail, February 3, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095950/This-just-beginning-Hacking-group-Anonymous-launches-cyber-attack-Greek-Ministry-Justice.html. * "'This is JUST the BEGINNING'" Rebecca Seales, "'This Is Just the Beginning: Hacking Group Anonymous Takes Over Greek Ministry of Justice Website and Warns Other Governments Are in Its Sights," Daily Mail, February 3, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095950/This-just-beginning-Hacking-group-Anonymous-launches-cyber-attack-Greek-Ministry-Justice.html. * "'Yes, yes, yes' he says, almost gleefully" John Arlidge, "George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War," Newsweek, January 23, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.html.
PAGE 80: "accused of short-selling American stocks" Adam Cohen, "How Bin Laden Funds His Network" Time, September 23, 2001, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,175972,00.html. * "'reaches $640 billion of losses'" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, "Death by a Thousand Cuts," Foreign Policy, November 23, 2010, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/23/death_by_a_thousand_cuts. * "'enrolled in doctoral programs'" Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey, "The Madrassa Myth" New York Times, June 14, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/14bergen.html. * "something of an egomaniac" Patrick Roberts, "Bin Laden had a Donald Trump-Sized Ego but Looked Like a Broken Old Man," Irish Central, May 8, 2011, http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/people_and_politics/bin-laden-had-a-donald-trump--sized-ego-but-looked-like-a-broken-old-man-121462604.html. * "did not list 'concrete targets'" "Al-Qaeda Plotting Against European Economy," Borneo Bulletin, August 26, 2011.
PAGE 81: "'bin Laden boasted of it on the world stage'" Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, "Don't Get Cocky, America: Al Qaeda Is Still Deadly Without Osama bin Laden," Foreign Policy, May 2, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/02/dont_get_cocky_america. * "'slaves to technology in their thinking'" Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America (Los Angeles: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002).
Chapter 5.
THE AMERICAN DREAM IS A LIE.
PAGE 84: "'more than anything else, is the American Dream.'" Arthur Edson, "The American Dream-Home of Your Own," The Associated Press, August 27, 1947, http://bit.ly/Ko5R7u.
PAGE 86: "'have their basic needs met'" Madonna Gauding, "Occupy Wall Street Redefines the American Dream," OccasionalPlanet.org, November 26, 2011, http://www.occasionalplanet.org/2011/11/26/occupy-wall-street-redefines-the-american-dream. * "'individual farm ownership'" "'Farm Dream' Plan Urged by Roosevelt," Hartford Courant, February 17, 1937. * "'work and become great'" Ira Wolfert, "How an Immigrant Boy Made Way to Place on Supreme Court Bench," Milwaukee Journal, January 8, 1939. * "won the Pulitzer Prize ten years earlier" Pulitzer.org, "1922 Winners," Pulitzer.org, http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1922 (accessed March 31, 2012). * "The Epic of America" Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 4. * "'circumstances of birth or position'" James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 374.
PAGE 87: "'imperfectly even among ourselves'" Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 374-75. * "'is the American dream'" Arthur Edsen, "The American Dream--Home of Your Own," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, August 27, 1947. * "'rising wage scale' of average workers" James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 379. * "'observer of the political scene'" Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960), 373. * "'was his supporting theory'" Elizabeth A. Brennan and Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999), 281.
PAGE 88: "'of the institutions he creates'" "Ike Warns U.S. Dream May Turn into Nightmare," St. Petersburg Times, October 25, 1949. * "'good and evil you shall not eat'" 1 Genesis 2:16-17 (New Revised Standard Version). * "'Republican House and Senate'" "Text of Nixon's Address to the Republican Club Dinner Here; Cites Nation's Prosperity Puts Case in Nutshell Calls Democrats Reactionary to Keep Individuals Free on Racial Minorities Praises 'Practical Leaders'" New York Times, February 14, 1956, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50612F93F58157B93C6A81789D85F428585F9. * "'all men are created equal'" Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 126. * "'by the peddlers of despair'" "'Peddlers of Despair,'" Eugene Register-Guard, October 15, 1964.
PAGE 89: "'for the purpose of increasing what he has'" Jim Powell, "Alexis de Tocqueville: How People Gain Liberty and Lose It," The Freeman 46, no. 7 (July 1996), http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/alexis-de-tocqueville-how-people-gain-liberty-and-lose-it/. * "'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness'" John R. Vile, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of American Founding, Volume 2 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2005), 518. * "'whatever God intends he should become'" Ronald Reagan, The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America (New York: Devin-Adair, 1968), 41. * "'brokerage firm that bears his name'" Christopher Gardner, "Biography," ChrisGardnerMedia.com, http://www.chrisgardnermedia.com/about/bio (accessed March 31, 2012).
PAGE 90: "'Hyper-Charge the American Dream Movement'" Campaign for America's Future, "2011 Take Back the American Dream Conference Agenda," ourfuture.org, http://www.ourfuture.org/conference/agenda (accessed April 1, 2012). * "'because of economic problems'" "The American Dream: Many Have Lost Faith, Study Reveals," St. Petersburg Evening Independent, March 1, 1978. * "'is becoming just that-a dream'" Bob Ferri, "Literally the American Dream," Portsmouth Daily Times, January 12, 1982. * "'the home in which they grew up'" "American Dream Is Still Strong," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 23, 1984. * "'the poor get poorer'" "American Dream Fading for Young as Rich Get Richer, and Poor Get Poorer," Salt Lake City Deseret News, September 5-6, 1988. * "'tax the wealthy'" Michael Graham, "Will 'Generation Gimme' Ever Work for the American Dream," MichaelGraham.com, December 2, 2011, http://michaelgraham.com/archives/will-ldquo-generation-gimme-rdquo-ever-work-for-the-american-dream.
PAGE 91: "'financial security. . .on top'" Michael F. Ford, "Five Myths About the American Dream," Washington Post, January 6, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-american-dream/2011/11/10/gIQAP4t0eP_story.html. * "'money is a worthy end in itself'" Michael F. Ford, "Five Myths About the American Dream," Washington Post, January 6, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-american-dream/2011/11/10/gIQAP4t0eP_story.html. * "'only 31% of the population overall'" Xavier University Center for the Study of the American Dream, "The American Dream: The Second Annual State of the American Dream Survey" (survey findings, Xavier University, March 2011), http://www.xavier.edu/americandream/programs/documents/Final-American-Dream-Survey-PowerPoint.pdf.
PAGE 92: "'God-given ability will take you'" Jennifer L. Hochschild, Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 18. * "'success of our great nation'" Nancy Pelosi, interviewed by Brian Wingfield, "Nancy Pelosi on the American Dream," Forbes.com, March 22, 2007, http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/20/nancy-pelosi-dream-oped-cx_bw_dream0307_0322pelosi.html. * "'meaning of the 'American Dream'?'" Max Frankel, "'Brain' Counts Russian Queries; U.S. Cigarette Price Tops List," New York Times, August 5, 1959. * "'Obama team could be bringing it to an end'" Star Parker, "Parker: The End of the American Dream," ScrippsNews.com, February 20, 2009, http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/41099. * "'those at the bottom of society'" Nicolaus Mills, "American Dream Is About Equality, Not Wealth," CNN.com, July 8, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-08/opinion/mills.debt.dream_1_american-dream-james-truslow-adams-puritans. * "'universal suffrage and education'" Max Frankel, "'Brain' Counts Russian Queries; U.S. Cigarette Price Tops List," New York Times, August 5, 1959. * "'the American nightmare'" Fox News, "Van Jones: Death to the 'Great White Suburbs'," FoxNews.com, March 22, 2012, http://nation.foxnews.com/van-jones/2012/03/22/van-jones-death-great-white-suburbs.
Chapter 6.
BORDERING ON INSANITY.
Drugs, Terrorists, and Murder in Our Backyard PAGE 96: "'You will be met by an overwhelming response'" Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, "U.S. Warns Mexican Cartels on Cross-Border Violence," reuters.com, January 31, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-mexico-napolitano-idUSTRE70U5TB20110131.
PAGE 97: "when bodies are burned or put into buckets of quicklime" "51 Bodies Found at Mexico Dumping Ground," cbsnews.com, July 24, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-6709785.html. * "if the violence crosses some imaginary line" Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, "U.S. Warns Mexican Cartels on Cross-Border Violence," reuters.com, January 31, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-mexico-napolitano-idUSTRE70U5TB20110131.
PAGE 98: "La Nacha controlled much of the Juarez heroin, morphine, and marijuana trade" Elaine Carey and Jose Carlos Cisneros Guzman, "The Daughters of La Nacha: Profiles of Women Traffickers," NACLA Report on the Americas, May-June, 2011, https://nacla.org/sites/default/files/A04403025_8.pdf.
PAGE 99: "where he's serving three consecutive life terms" John Lee, "Camarena Figure Gets 3 Life Terms," Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-09/local/me-1914_1_honduran-juan-matta-ballesteros.
PAGE 101: "'dangerous cartel operating in Mexico'" Michael Ware, "Los Zetas Called Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel," cnn.com, August 6, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-06/world/mexico.drug.cartels_1_los-zetas-drug-cartels-drug-war?_s=PM:WORLD. * "'lack the extensive training and discipline of older members'" Samuel Logan, "Los Zetas: Evolution of a Criminal Organization," ISN Security Watch, March 11, 2009, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch-Archive/Detail/?id=97554.
PAGE 103: "movie piracy in Mexico costs Hollywood at least $590 million annually" Michael White, "Hollywood: Organized Crime Goes to the Movies," Bloomberg Businessweek, April 7, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224016208623.htm. * "'with profits reaching $2.2 million a day'" Lucas Urdaneta, "Familia, 'Pirateria' and the Story of Microsoft's 'CSI' Unit," insightcrime.org, February 10, 2011, http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/540-microsoft-familia-michoacana-selling-pirated-software. * "and a calf for up to $20,000" Liliana Alcantara, "Robo de Ganado, Nuevo Negocio del Crimen," El Universal, September 6, 2010, http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/primera/35497.html. * "seven major tunnels along the San Diego border with Mexico" Douglas Stanglin, "More Than 32 Tons of Pot Seized in San Diego-Tijuana Tunnel," USA Today, November 30, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/more-than-32-tons-of-pot-seized-in-border-tunnel-linking-san-diego-and-tijuana.
PAGE 104: "It was also lighted and ventilated" Douglas Stanglin, "More Than 32 Tons of Pot Seized in San Diego-Tijuana Tunnel," USA Today, November 30, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/more-than-32-tons-of-pot-seized-in-border-tunnel-linking-san-diego-and-tijuana. * "meet a grisly fate in some Arizona lettuce field" Peter O'Dowd, "In Risky Twist, Using Ultralight Planes To Drop Drugs," npr.org, May 26, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136644297/in-risky-twist-using-ultralight-plans-to-drop-drugs. * "made of a plaster and cocaine mixture" Robin Emmott, "Mexico Drug Smugglers Make Jesus Statue of Cocaine," reuters.com, May 30, 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/30/us-mexico-drugs-idUSN3031343320080530. * "hollowed out and filled with packages of cocaine" Robin Emmott, "Mexico Finds Cocaine Haul Hidden in Frozen Sharks," reuters.com, June 17, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/17/us-mexico-drugs-idUSN1631193420090617. * "swallowing dozens of little drug-filled balloons" Mariano Castillo, "Authorities: Woman Carried 91 Heroin Pellets in Body," cnn.com, January 6, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-06/us/michigan.drug.mule_1_heroin-pellets-internal-carriers-cbp-news-release.
PAGE 105: "equipped with lighting and ventilation." "Big Mexican border drug tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana discovered," The Associated Press, December 1, 2011, http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/big_mexican_border_drug_tunnel.html.
PAGE 106: "Juan Garcia abrego, is also serving multiple life sentences" Dane Schiller, "Ex-Cartel Boss is Doing Harder Time Now in Feds' Supermax," Houston Chronicle, May 18, 2011, http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Ex-cartel-boss-is-doing-harder-time-now-in-feds-1690243.php. * "the Mexican government kept many details surrounding the massacre to themselves" Gary Moore, "Unraveling Mysteries of Mexico's San Fernando Massacre," insightcrime.org, September 19, 2011, http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1583-unravelling-mysteries-of-mexicos-san-fernando-massacre.
PAGE 107: "'an act of terrorism has been committed'" Sylvia Longmire, "Calling Casino Attack In Mexico An 'Act Of Terror': Rhetoric Or Rethinking?" hstoday.com, September 1, 2011, http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/correspondents-watch/single-article/calling-casino-attack-in-mexico-an-act-of-terror-rhetoric-or-rethinking/eacdae763fccc24686651bdb4fe41bd6.html. * "partly blame the United States for the attack" William Booth, "Mexico Blames US Drug Culture, Guns for Casino Massacre," Washington Post, August 26, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/calderon-mexico-casino-fire-deaths-act-of-terrorism/2011/08/26/gIQAmnVEgJ_story.html. * "police department issued a confidential memo" Tucson Police Department, "International Terrorism Situational Awareness: Hezbollah," Tucson Urban Area security initiative, September 20, 2010, http://publicintelligence.info/AZ-Hezbollah.pdf.
PAGE 108: "help of his cousin, who was a member of Hezbollah" Tucson Police Department, "International Terrorism Situational Awareness: Hezbollah," Tucson Urban Area Security Initiative, September 20, 2010, http://publicintelligence.info/AZ-Hezbollah.pdf. * "'jeopardize those operations'" "Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near Border," 10news.com, KGTV, May 4, 2011, http://www.10news.com/news/27780427/detail.html.
PAGE 109: "Middle Eastern terrorist organizations" Sylvia Longmire, "Border Security: Hezbollah Presence in the United States is No Surprise," hstoday.us, January 10, 2012, http://www.hstoday.us/focused-topics/border-security/single-article-page/hezbollah-presence-in-the-united-states-is-no-surprise/2e1af4c017be5f75d5a5da67329b6b91.html.
PAGE 110: "assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States" Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, "Iranians Accused of a Plot to Kill Saudis' U.S. Envoy," New York Times, October 11, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/us/us-accuses-iranians-of-plotting-to-kill-saudi-envoy.html.
PAGE 112: "come from our neighbor to the south" U.S. Department of Justice, National Drug Intelligence Center, National Drug Threat Assessment 2011, report, August 2011, http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs44/44849/44849p.pdf. * "long-term drug abuse killed an estimated 37,485 Americans" Kenneth D. Kochanek and others, "Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2009," National Vital Statistics Reports, 59, no. 4 (March 16, 2011), www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_04.pdf. * "largest meth labs ever discovered in the United States" Andria Simmons, "Half-ton of Meth Seized in Norcross 'Superlab'," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 30, 2010, http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/half-ton-of-meth-759047.html. * "creates five pounds of toxic waste" Foundation for a Drug-Free World "What Is Meth Made from?" drugfreeworld.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/crystalmeth/what-is-meth-made-from.html.
PAGE 113: "discovered in North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, and Michigan" Dr. John Gettman, "Marijuana Production in the United States," Bulletin of Cannabis Reform, December 2006, http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/MJCropReport_2006.pdf. * "Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin" Mark Rockwell, "Mexican Nationals Get 10 years for Marijuana Growing Operations in Wisconsin Forest," Government Security News, February 6, 2012, http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25582. * "Sheriffs' deputies, hikers, and hunters have been shot at" United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Eastern District of California, "Lassen County Marijuana Growers Present At Fatal Shootout Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment On Drug And Firearms Convictions," press release, January 11, 2012, http://www.justice.gov/usao/cae/news/docs/2011/01-11-11LassenMarijuana.html.
PAGE 114: "'better now than it has ever been.'" Stephanie Condon, "Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever," cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html.
PAGE 115: "'whether perpetrated in Mexico or the U.S.'" Kristin M. Finklea, William J. Krouse, and Mark A. Randol, Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence, Congressional Research Service, report for Congress, August 25, 2011, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41075.pdf. * "between cartel members in the United States" Kristin M. Finklea, William J. Krouse, and Mark A. Randol, Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence, Congressional Research Service, report for Congress, August 25, 2011, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41075.pdf. * "'the border is better now than it's ever been'" Stephanie Condon, "Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever," cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html.
PAGE 116: "She also says that overall violent crime is down across the southwest" Stephanie Condon, "Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever," cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html. * "'violence on the other side of the border'" Nina Mandell, "Woman in El Paso Struck by Stray Bullet That May Have Come from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico," NY Daily News, February 22, 2012, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-02-22/news/31088760_1_stray-bullet-juarez-police-ciudad-juarez. * "he had sold it and kept the money" Laurie Merrell, "Chandler Beheading Tied to Mexican Drug Cartel," Arizona Republic, March 2, 2011, http://bit.ly/IO4DUJ. * "grandfather owed a cartel over one million dollars" Jeff German, "Suspect Pleads Guilty in Drug Cartel Kidnapping," Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 18, 2011, http://www.lvrj.com/news/suspect-pleads-guilty-in-drug-cartel-kidnapping-114175549.html. * "throats slit in northern Alabama by men working for the Gulf cartel" Pauline Arrillaga, "Grisly Slayings Brings Mexican Drug War to US," Arizona Republic, April 18, 2009, http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/18/20090418drugwar-fightathome18-ON.html. * "while responding to a cartel-related kidnapping call" Lynn Brezosky, "Hidalgo Sheriff Says Shooting 'Spillover' from Drug War," San Antonio Express-News, November 4, 2011, http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Hidalgo-sheriff-has-no-doubt-deputy-s-shooting-2245516.php. * "happened on a McAllen, Texas, highway" "Sources: Fatal Gunshots on McAllen Expressway Point to Gulf Cartel," Monitor, September 27, 2011, http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mcallen-55174-point-expressway.html. * "near the Hollywood sign" Veronica M. Cruz, "Link Probed Between LA Body Parts, Local Corpse," Arizona Daily Star, January 20, 2012, http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/link-probed-between-la-body-parts-local-corpse/article_5040a9ab-1435-5824-b363-2e52c2d2adeb.html.
PAGE 118: "from the branches to mark their conquests" Mariela Rosario, "'Rape Trees' Found Along US Southern Border," Latina, March 11, 2009, http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/rape-trees-found-along-southern-us-border. * "are sexually abused in some way" Mariela Rosario, "The Steep Price of Immigration for Latin American Women," Latina, March 17, 2009, http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/steep-price-immigration-latin-american-women. * "fifty-one Guatemalan nationals, including six children" "More Than 50 People Found in Phoenix Drop House," Associated Press, June 29, 2010, http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/29/4584646-more-than-50-people-found-in-phoenix-drop-house. * "broken ribs, cuts, and bruises" Jennifer Thomas and Jared Dillingham, "Illegal immigrants tortured in drop house," azfamily.com, December 8, 2011, http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/18-people-found-inside-an-Avondale-drop-house-135242228.html.
PAGE 119: "from persecution by another group" Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, "Law Inhibits Many Mexican Asylum Cases," El Paso Times," July 31, 2011, http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18587920.
PAGE 120: "More than forty-seven thousand people have been killed" Damien Cave, "Mexico Updates Death Toll in Drug War to 47,515, but Critics Dispute the Data," New York Times, January 11, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/americas/mexico-updates-drug-war-death-toll-but-critics-dispute-data.html.
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/archive/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 (New 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.
PAGE 157: "'ask them to pray for him'" Ambreen Ali, "Christian Coalition Asks Obama to Protect the Poor During Meeting," Roll Call, July 20, 2011, http://www.rollcall.com/news/christian_coalition_asks_obama_to_protect_the_poor_during_meeting-207508-1.html. * "protest 'fasts' between Palm Sunday and Easter." Thomas C. Reeves, The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity, (New York: Free Press, 1996).
PAGE 158: "'so we're with him on that'" Ambreen Ali, "Christian Coalition Asks Obama to Protect the Poor During Meeting," Roll Call, July 20, 2011, http://www.rollcall.com/news/christian_coalition_asks_obama_to_protect_the_poor_during_meeting-207508-1.html. * "'fiscal responsibility and shared sacrifice'" United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "U.S. Bishops Join with Other Christian Leaders to Call for 'Circle of Protection' Around Programs for Poor People," news release, April 28, 2011, http://old.usccb.org/comm/archives/2011/11-085.shtml. * "'did not use a government credit card'" Christians for a Sustainable Economy, "CASE's Letter to the President," case4america.org, accessed April 3, 2012, http://www.case4america.org/cases-letter-to-the-president. * "'engines of both Wall Street and the Kremlin'" Katherine Mangu-Ward, "God's Democrat," Weekly Standard, April 11, 2005, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/441oqlsg.asp.