{"id":5762,"date":"2013-03-06T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:54:27","slug":"from-salon-extremism-normalized-how-americans-are-efficiently-trained-to-acquiesce-to-ideas-once-deemed-so-radical-as-to-be-unthinkable-glenn-greenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/from-salon-extremism-normalized-how-americans-are-efficiently-trained-to-acquiesce-to-ideas-once-deemed-so-radical-as-to-be-unthinkable-glenn-greenwald\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Salon) &#8216;Extremism normalized: How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable&#8217;  &#8211;Glenn Greenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/10\/the_drones_are_coming_to_america\/\">zero question<\/a>\u00a0that this drone surveillance\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/06\/nprs_domestic_drone_commercial\/\">is coming<\/a>\u00a0to American soil. It already has spawned a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-booming-drone-sector\/2011\/12\/23\/gIQAUtFREP_gallery.html\">vast industry<\/a>\u00a0that is quickly securing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/7\/coming-to-a-sky-near-you\/?page=all\">formal approval<\/a>\u00a0for the proliferation of these surveillance weapons. There\u2019s some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/17\/conservatives_turn_on_drones\/\">growing though still marginal opposition<\/a> among both the independent left and the more libertarian-leaning precincts on the right, but at the moment, that trans-ideological coalition is easily outgunned by the combination of drone industry lobbyists and Surveillance State fanatics. The idea of flying robots hovering over American soil monitoring what citizens do <em>en masse<\/em>\u00a0is yet another one of those ideas that, in the very recent past, seemed too radical and dystopian to entertain, yet is on the road to being quickly mainstreamed. When that happens, it is no longer deemed radical to advocate such things; radicalism is evinced by opposition to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TO READ GREENWALD&#8217;S LATEST CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/31\/extremism_normalized\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5763\" title=\"ap\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ap.png\" width=\"370\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ap.png 370w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ap-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/31\/extremism_normalized\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 There is zero question\u00a0that this drone surveillance\u00a0is coming\u00a0to American soil. It already has spawned a\u00a0vast industry\u00a0that is quickly securing formal approval\u00a0for the proliferation of these surveillance weapons. There\u2019s some growing though still marginal opposition among both the independent left and the more libertarian-leaning precincts on the right, but at the moment, that trans-ideological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}