(2017/01/06) Trump and our National Security State (Civil Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1069
Today we take a look at the mechanics of our national security state that has been mostly installed or maintained over the past two presidencies and what Trump may do with that entrenched power
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​Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Chris Hedges: Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence and Savagery - @TheRealNews - Air Date 11-10-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Murky Water - The Autumn Isles
Ch. 4: Act 2: Do NOT Abandon the Constitution, Even for Terrorism - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 09-27-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: The Constitution - Ted Hawkins
Ch. 6: Act 3: Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue - @TEDTalks - Air Date 10-31-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Camera One - Josh Joplin Group
Ch. 8: Act 4: The future of police and surveillance - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 11-15-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Police, Police - The Showcase Showdown
Ch. 10: Act 5: Sue Udry on Civil Liberties–Under Trump - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 11-18-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Never Let You Down - The Verve Pipe
Ch. 12: Act 6: Ms. Robot - Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (@FullFrontalSamB) - Air Date 12-13-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Get By - Talib Kweli
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell Your Senators: Expose Jeff Sessions' Anti-Civil Rights and Anti-Privacy History via @ACLU - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Branko Marcetic Trump Inherits Obama’s National Security State - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 12-6-16
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Expressing political opinions - Dale from Minneapolis, MN
Ch. 18: How minds can be changed for good or ill - Quai from North Carolina
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 19: Final comments on changing minds, whose and how
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Call your Senators today and tell them why you oppose Jeff Sessions for Attorney General
Read ACLU’s “The Confirmation Sessions” for Jeff Sessions history, issue-by-issue
Call Senate Judiciary Committee Members who will question Sessions on January 10th.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
ACLU's "The Confirmation Sessions" (ACLU)
Corporate Accountability Blunders Taint Sessions Record (Public Citizen)
Trump and Sessions: Great for the Private Prison Industry, Terrible for Civil Rights (ACLU Blog)
Jeff Sessions’ Nomination as Attorney General Alarms Civil Libertarians (Wired)
Trump’s attorney general pick could restart the encryption fight (The Verge)
Trump's pick for attorney general: 'Good people don't smoke marijuana' (The Washington Post)
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| 0:00.0 | Work goes on the same as it has been. |
| 0:01.8 | It's not like things were wonderful under a president Obama. |
| 0:06.2 | So we know what we've got to do and we've been doing it. |
| 0:08.5 | We just need to do it harder now. |
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| 0:25.7 | Now welcome to the award winning Best of a Left podcast |
| 0:28.2 | with clips today from the Real News Network, |
| 0:30.6 | the David Bakkern Show, a TED Talk by Christopher Sagoan, |
| 0:34.3 | the humorless queers, counter spin, |
| 0:36.6 | full frontal with Samantha B and the majority report. |
| 0:43.0 | One of the major concerns that many have |
| 0:45.4 | about a president Trump is that given his authoritarian tendencies, |
| 0:51.3 | he would be prone to use powers of the presidency |
| 0:55.2 | to a far greater extent than, say, President Obama did. |
| 1:00.1 | One of these powers that most people are not aware of |
| 1:03.5 | is embodied in the National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA. |
| 1:10.3 | Normally, this act is simply to provide funding for the U.S. military. |
| 1:15.0 | However, in 2012, the NDAA included several controversial provisions |
| 1:21.8 | such as giving the president authority to indefinitely |
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