> The ruling elite has decided to turn the global war on terror infrastructure inward, onto their political opposition. > America has a new bogeyman—and it’s us. After 20 years of the global war on terror, “contingency operations,” nation-building, random attempts at regime change, and even arming, training, and equipping the very terrorist groups we started out fighting, we are now about to embark on a domestic war on terror. > Post 9/11, the United States built an entire federal infrastructure to track, surveil, and destroy those it identifies as threats, whether real or perceived. This infrastructure provides enormous power to those who control it, both in the actual wielding of it and in the allocation of tax dollars to support it. (Full disclosure: I spent the majority of my adult working life as part of this system, fighting America’s enemies overseas.) > As the war on terrorism has waned, the ruling elite and the power agencies they control (Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and the intelligence agencies) have decided to turn this infrastructure inward onto their political opposition.