Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘The supreme concept of bourgeois society’: liberalism and the technique of security
- 2 Emergency? What emergency?
- 3 From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order
- 4 Security, identity, loyalty
- 5 The Company and the Campus
- Notes
- Index
4 - Security, identity, loyalty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘The supreme concept of bourgeois society’: liberalism and the technique of security
- 2 Emergency? What emergency?
- 3 From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order
- 4 Security, identity, loyalty
- 5 The Company and the Campus
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The standards of patriotism for my profession are about to be set by three policemen from the FBI … Who should be employed on radio and who shouldn't be employed will be determined by three guys whose favored source of information is the House Un-American Activities Committee. You'll see how courageous the bosses are in the face of this shit. Watch how the profit system holds out against the pressure. Freedom of thought, of speech, of due process – screw all that. People are going to be destroyed, buddy. It's not livelihoods that are going to be lost, it's lives. People are going to die. They're going to get sick and die, they're going to jump off buildings and die. By the time this is over, the people with names on that list are going to wind up in concentration camps.
Philip Roth, I Married a Communist (1998)On 26 October 2001, President Bush signed into law a rather substantial bill, running to over 340 pages, specifying roles for some 40 federal agencies and carrying 21 legal amendments, called the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. The Act changed criminal law and immigration procedures to allow people to be held indefinitely once charged, altered intelligence-gathering procedures to allow for the monitoring of people's reading habits through surveillance of library and bookshop records, and introduced other new measures to allow for greater access to property, e-mail, computers, and financial and educational records; all for the purpose of defeating the new terrorist enemy.
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- Critique of Security , pp. 106 - 141Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2008