http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-acts-terror-people-we-chose-protect-us?page=0%2C0

"5 Acts of Terror by the People We Choose to Protect Us" by Paul Buchheight

Terrorism and the ever pervasive consequences of Americans' widespread fear of it have undoubtedly affected all of our lives in one way or another.  Everybody experiences different aspects of this seemingly manufactured state of alert.  Youth K-12 may experience an increase in police officers and a decrease in guidance couselors available and present in school.  Others may have even experienced an unwarranted encounter with authorities in the guise of protection from what was called "terrorism". What this article is really getting at is the context in which the word "terrorist" is being applied to, which in this case is the federal corporation know as the United States Government.  It reads from instances such as condtradictory Bush Administration quotes of the "war on terror" from Bush, Cheney and Powell, to terror against opponents of unconstitutional terror such as Bradley Manning.  The real point Buchheight is trying to make -- or question he is trying to ask rather, is "If the US Government (or anyone other government for that matter) is committing terrorist acts in the guise of fighting terrorism, should we as Americans support it?".  This question, in its highly controversial nature is a great example of what George Orwell liked to call doublespeak.  Americans' support for the war on terror and the consequences of it, which seem to be more terrrorism, is at the heart of doublespeak or "when a person holds two mutually contradictory beliefs".  Terrorism cannot be stopped by more terrorism, simple.