Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: war propaganda terrorism barack-obama war-on-terror 2012 twitter anwar-al-awlaki drone-attacks
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics liberalism united-states dissent loyalty barack-obama 2012 twitter
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics united-states barack-obama 2012 twitter right-wing-politics united-states-elections-2012
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics dissent journalism washington-dc 2012 twitter david-petraeus michael-hastings petraeus-scandal
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: terrorism war-on-terror 2012 twitter
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics law constitution bill-of-rights
But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative.
Glenn GreenwaldIt's really encouraging and inspiring to be around a gathering of so many people ... who really are committed to that vision." (While addressing the American Socialist Party, 2011)
Glenn GreenwaldThe way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: liberty privacy authoritarianism spying surveillance surveillance-society nsa
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: fear power courage fearlessness journalism 2013
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