A man it held up by a rope and is blindfolded, guards force him to stay awake while embarrassing and chastising him for hours on end until he confess or reveals information that will helpful in fighting the war on terror. The image I have set up for you is one of the techniques written in the torture memo on how to deal with the terrorist and fight the War on Terror. When the memo got leaked it created controversy among Americans to see how this alleged prisoner where being tortured. This incident caused many questions to arise. How the state get this power to use violence. How is this act of violence legal? How is the war on terror so different that they have to change their technique for war? To answer this question we will have to explore
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War making yields armies, navies, and supporting services and since the War on Terror is a war on ideology and not on a state , there needs to be new tactics to deal with terrorism (Tilly 119). For example 9/11 caused homeland security to have the largest reorganization of the state since the civil war. The restructuring occurred so that there was more focus on preparing to deal with terrorism. But how do you prepare for a war that is everywhere and anywhere? This is where the use of intelligence comes in. With intelligence agency needing to be able connect the dots, institutional lines started to become blurred and t interconnected. One of these examples is the NSA who handles international affairs start going into FBI to get information on certain citizens that may be under suspicion. This use of intelligence is what distinguishes this war form the previous war we have fought. The second of Tilly concept is that the America is acting as a protection racketeer and that them going into war with Afghanistan was created by them but it was presented as protecting and defending the American people. The war on Afghanistan was a reaction to 9/11 and that we need to go to war to protect and defend the American people and catch Osama bin laden. Once we had caught him successfully and accomplished our mission we still in the war. The threat …show more content…
Routine surveillance is clearly bound up with political repression helping to construct politically useful forms of knowledge in surveillance meaning that surveillance is used a a disciplinary measure to control and restrict a particular group of people ( Parentiv 164). For example Japanese having to be put on Angel Island after Pearl Harbor happened. Their war on terror has been linked to a lot of Islamic groups and the word terrorist has been associated with Muslims. Making many of the surveillance technique implied after 9/11 centralized to people of Islamic descent. This can be seen by the no fly list that they have implemented on American airlines resemble the gang database used in the 1990s. There was a huge movement on “the war on gangs” that lead to the creation of huge computerized gang database designed to identify and track gang member, suspected gang member, and their associates (Parenti,206). This creates a “false positive” because it uses names and not number which can lead to a lot of misinterpretation. This can cause Panoptic effect because now Middle Eastern people will feel restricted from the freedom to fly to different places. Parernti explains the panoptic effect by using the example of a circular prison in which illuminated cells are watched from the central observation tower, and that since prisoner don’t know if they are being watched or not they
War making yields armies, navies, and supporting services and since the War on Terror is a war on ideology and not on a state , there needs to be new tactics to deal with terrorism (Tilly 119). For example 9/11 caused homeland security to have the largest reorganization of the state since the civil war. The restructuring occurred so that there was more focus on preparing to deal with terrorism. But how do you prepare for a war that is everywhere and anywhere? This is where the use of intelligence comes in. With intelligence agency needing to be able connect the dots, institutional lines started to become blurred and t interconnected. One of these examples is the NSA who handles international affairs start going into FBI to get information on certain citizens that may be under suspicion. This use of intelligence is what distinguishes this war form the previous war we have fought. The second of Tilly concept is that the America is acting as a protection racketeer and that them going into war with Afghanistan was created by them but it was presented as protecting and defending the American people. The war on Afghanistan was a reaction to 9/11 and that we need to go to war to protect and defend the American people and catch Osama bin laden. Once we had caught him successfully and accomplished our mission we still in the war. The threat …show more content…
Routine surveillance is clearly bound up with political repression helping to construct politically useful forms of knowledge in surveillance meaning that surveillance is used a a disciplinary measure to control and restrict a particular group of people ( Parentiv 164). For example Japanese having to be put on Angel Island after Pearl Harbor happened. Their war on terror has been linked to a lot of Islamic groups and the word terrorist has been associated with Muslims. Making many of the surveillance technique implied after 9/11 centralized to people of Islamic descent. This can be seen by the no fly list that they have implemented on American airlines resemble the gang database used in the 1990s. There was a huge movement on “the war on gangs” that lead to the creation of huge computerized gang database designed to identify and track gang member, suspected gang member, and their associates (Parenti,206). This creates a “false positive” because it uses names and not number which can lead to a lot of misinterpretation. This can cause Panoptic effect because now Middle Eastern people will feel restricted from the freedom to fly to different places. Parernti explains the panoptic effect by using the example of a circular prison in which illuminated cells are watched from the central observation tower, and that since prisoner don’t know if they are being watched or not they