According to a \u201cNational Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin<\/a>\u201d issued by the DHS on January 27, these DCEs, HVEs, VCTEs, VRDEs, IMAEs, and PWMLFUs are \u201cideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority\u201d and other \u201cperceived grievances fueled by false narratives.\u201d They are believed to be \u201cmotivated by a range of issues, including anger over Covid-19 restrictions, the 2020 election results, police use of force,\u201d and other dangerous \u201cfalse narratives\u201d (e.g., the existence of the \u201cdeep state,\u201d \u201cherd immunity,\u201d \u201cbiological sex,\u201d \u201cGod,\u201d and so on).<\/p>\n \u201cInspired by foreign terrorist groups\u201d and \u201cemboldened by the breach of the US Capitol Building,\u201d this diabolical network of \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d is \u201cplotting attacks against government facilities,\u201d \u201cthreatening violence against critical infrastructure\u201d and actively \u201cciting misinformation and conspiracy theories about Covid-19.\u201d For all we know, they might be huddled in the \u201cWolf\u2019s Lair\u201d at Mar-a-Lago right now, plotting a devastating terrorist attack with those WMDs we never found in Iraq, or generating population-adjusted death-rate charts going back 20 years<\/a>, or posting pictures of \u201cextremist frogs<\/a>\u201d on the Internet.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security is \u201cconcerned,\u201d as are its counterparts throughout the global capitalist empire. The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror isn\u2019t just a war on American \u201cdomestic terror.\u201d The \u201cdomestic terror\u201d threat is international. France has just passed a \u201cGlobal Security Law<\/a>\u201d banning citizens from filming the police beating the living snot out of people (among other \u201canti-terrorist\u201d provisions). In Germany, the government is preparing to install an anti-terror moat around the Reichstag<\/a>. In the Netherlands, the police are cracking down on the VCTEs, VRDEs, and other \u201cangry citizens who hate the system<\/a>,\u201d who have been protesting over nightly curfews. Suddenly, everywhere you look (or at least if you are looking in the corporate media), \u201cglobal extremism networks are growing<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s time for Globocap to take the gloves off again, root the \u201cterrorists\u201d out of their hidey holes, and roll out a new official narrative.<\/p>\n Actually, there\u2019s not much new about it. When you strip away all the silly new acronyms, the (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror is basically just a combination of the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d narrative and the \u201cNew Normal\u201d narrative; i.e., a militarization of the so-called \u201cNew Normal\u201d and a pathologization of the \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d Why would GloboCap want to do that, you ask?<\/p>\n I think you know, but I\u2019ll go ahead and tell you.<\/p>\n See, the problem with the original \u201cGlobal War on Terror\u201d was that it wasn\u2019t actually all that global. It was basically just a war on Islamic \u201cterrorism\u201d (i.e., resistance to global capitalism and its post-ideological ideology), which was fine as long as GloboCap was just destabilizing and restructuring the Greater Middle East. It was put on hold in 2016<\/a>, so that GloboCap could focus on defeating \u201cpopulism\u201d (i.e., resistance to global capitalism and its post-ideological ideology), make an example of Donald Trump, and demonize everyone who voted for him (or just refused to take part in their free and fair elections<\/a>), which they have just finished doing, in spectacular fashion. So, now it\u2019s back to \u201cWar on Terror\u201d business, except with a whole new cast of \u201cterrorists,\u201d or, technically, an expanded cast of \u201cterrorists.\u201d (I rattled off a list in my previous column<\/a>.)<\/p>\n In short, GloboCap has simply expanded, recontextualized, and pathologized the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d (i.e., the war on resistance to global capitalism and its post-ideological ideology). This was always inevitable, of course. A globally-hegemonic system (e.g., global capitalism) has no external enemies, as there is no territory \u201coutside\u201d the system. Its only enemies are within the system, and thus, by definition, are insurgents, also known as \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201cextremists.\u201d These terms are utterly meaningless, obviously. They are purely strategic, deployed against anyone who deviates from GloboCap\u2019s official ideology \u2026 which, in case you were wondering, is called \u201cnormality\u201d (or, in our case, currently, \u201cNew Normality\u201d).<\/p>\n In earlier times, these \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201cextremists\u201d were known as \u201cheretics,\u201d \u201capostates,\u201d and \u201cblasphemers.\u201d Today, they are also known as \u201cdeniers,\u201d e.g., \u201cscience deniers,\u201d \u201cCovid deniers,\u201d and recently, more disturbingly, \u201creality deniers.\u201d This is an essential part of the pathologization of the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d narrative. The new breed of \u201cterrorists\u201d do not just hate us for our freedom \u2026 they hate us because they hate \u201creality.\u201d They are no longer our political or ideological opponents \u2026 they are suffering from a psychiatric disorder. They no longer need to be argued with or listened to \u2026 they need to be \u201ctreated,\u201d \u201creeducated,\u201d and \u201cdeprogrammed,\u201d until they accept \u201cReality.\u201d If you think I\u2019m exaggerating the totalitarian nature of the \u201cNew Normal\/War on Terror\u201d narrative, read this op-ed in The New York Times<\/em> exploring the concept of a \u201cReality Czar\u201d<\/a> to deal with our \u201cReality Crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n And this is just the beginning, of course. The consensus (at least in GloboCap circles) is, the (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror will probably continue for the next 10 to 20 years<\/a>, which should provide the global capitalist ruling classes with more than enough time to carry out the \u201cGreat Reset<\/a>,\u201d destroy what\u2019s left of human society, and condition the public to get used to living like cringing, neo-feudal peasants who have to ask permission to leave their houses. We\u2019re still in the initial \u201cshock and awe<\/a>\u201d phase (which they will have to scale back a bit eventually), but just look at how much they\u2019ve already accomplished.<\/p>\n The economic damage is literally incalculable \u2026 millions have been plunged into desperate poverty, countless independent businesses crushed, whole industries crippled, developing countries rendered economically dependent (i.e., compliant) for the foreseeable future, as billionaires amassed over $1 trillion in wealth<\/a> and supranational corporate behemoths consolidated their dominance across the planet.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s just the economic damage. The attack on society has been even more dramatic. GloboCap, in the space of a year, has transformed the majority of the global masses into an enormous, paranoid totalitarian cult<\/a> that is no longer capable of even rudimentary reasoning. (I\u2019m not going to go on about it here \u2026 at this point, you either recognize it or you\u2019re in it.) They\u2019re actually lining up in parking lots, the double-masked members of this Covidian cult, to be injected with an experimental \u201cvaccine\u201d that they believe will save the human species from a virus that causes mild to moderate symptoms in roughly 95% of those \u201cinfected,\u201d and that over 99% of the \u201cinfected\u201d survive<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, it is no big surprise that these same mindless cultists are gung-ho for the (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror, and the upcoming globally-televised show trial of Donald Trump for \u201cinciting insurrection,\u201d and the ongoing corporate censorship of the Internet, and can\u2019t wait to be issued their \u201cFreedom Passports<\/a>,\u201d which will allow them to take part in \u201cNew Normal\u201d life \u2014 double-masked and socially-distanced, naturally \u2014 while having their every movement and transaction, and every word they write on Facebook, or in an email, or say to someone on their smartphones, or in the vicinity of their 5G toasters, recorded by GloboCap\u2019s Intelligence Services and their corporate partners, subsidiaries, and assigns. These people have nothing at all to worry about, as they would never dream of disobeying orders, and could not produce an original thought, much less one displeasing to GloboCap, if you held a fake apocalyptic plague to their heads.<\/p>\n As for the rest of us \u201cextremists,\u201d \u201cdomestic terrorists,\u201d \u201cheretics,\u201d and \u201creality deniers,\u201d (i.e., anyone criticizing global capitalism, or challenging its official narratives, and its increasingly totalitarian ideology, regardless of our specific DHS acronyms), I wish I had something hopeful to tell you, but, the truth is, things aren\u2019t looking so good. I guess I\u2019ll see you in a quarantine camp<\/a>, or in the psych ward, or an offshore detention facility \u2026 or, I don\u2019t know, maybe I\u2019ll see you in the streets.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/zone-23-cover-createspace2-e1611627931267.png\")
<\/a>If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you\u2019re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It\u2019s just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the \u201cTerrorists\u201d are all \u201cDomestic Violent Extremists\u201d (\u201cDVEs\u201d), \u201cHomegrown Violent Extremists\u201d (\u201cHVEs\u201d), \u201cViolent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists\u201d (\u201cVCTEs\u201d), \u201cViolent Reality Denialist Extremists\u201d (VRDEs\u201d), \u201cInsurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists\u201d (\u201cIMAEs\u201d), \u201cPeople Who Make Liberals Feel Uncomfortable\u201d (\u201cPWMLFUs\u201d), and anyone else the Department of Homeland Security wants to label an \u201cextremist\u201d and slap a ridiculous acronym on.<\/p>\n