Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom have morphed into a single Operation Enduring Occupation, set to bankrupt this country financially as well as morally, to destroy our own security as it has that of the over 31 million people who populate Iraq and 32 million people of Afghanistan. Operations sold to the American people as protecting our freedoms have been used as part of a corrupt apparatus to restrict, reduce and infringe on those freedoms – civil liberties enshrined in the early English common law (habeas corpus, trial by jury) and the Constitution’s Bill of Rights (free speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment). Our language has been deformed (“Homeland,” “preventative war,” “enemy combatant,” “enhanced interrogation”)our society, militarized and privatized – with the legitimate government monopoly on violence outsourced to military contractors. Full article.