CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frank Furedi, Totalitarianism
1 Feb 2015
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Lack of political advocacy by the medical and scientific community on the behalf of the drug users. Vocal, racist, and politically powerful moral reform movement. Specifically in the u. s: an effort by the medical profession to gain control of prescribing powers. Crimes against the state: treason/riots/assassination, rosa parks/dr. Crimes by the state: human rights violations, concentration camps, internment camps. Crimes against other groups: hate crime. Requires and audience whose reaction is fear and terror. The act of terrorizing: the use of force or threats to demoralize, intimidate and subjugate a population or peoples expressly as a political weapon or policy. Terrorism is usually the weapon of a weak group fighting a strong enemy. State terrorism is the use of violence, generally without support of law, against individuals or groups by a government or its agents. Democratic societies are more vulnerable as targets of terrorism than are totalitarian societies. Review: sample test questions: the text outlines three criteria of casuality.
