GOP's FSJ Tactics: Fearing, Sneering and Jeering

FSJ Tactics: Fearing, Sneering and Jeering

The recent FISA “compromise” between U.S. citizens’ constitutional rights and their security is a farce. It is another in a stream of this genre replete in U.S. history including the Alien and Sedition Act, and Japanese Internment. In every case, Republicans using the FSJ message led the enactment to evoke the id of voters who get a perverse security buzz from the contriving of a scapegoat.