Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter online: Patriot Act, Crossref, Corporate Security
30 Apr 2018
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Recriminalizing Dissent:
• Hist CN always managed skew balance b/w protest and freedom to maint own auth and
serve interests big business but new omnibus anti-terrorism leg dramatically tipped scales
• Right dissent= ess ingredient democracy- but fund right now being criminalized= crim
and act terrorism- rapidly escalated since 9/11
• Process crim dissent already well underway before 9/11
• Post-9/11 anti-terrorist legislation in CN- bills C-35, C-36 and C-42- go long way toward
entrenching crim of dissent
• Bill C-35 expands def internationally protected persons include gov and business
personnel participating internat conferences, cross-ref def terrorist activities found C-36=
implied any interference internat protected persons seen terrorist activity
• C-36 cont broad def terrorist activity covering protest and dissent= involve participating,
facilitating, instructing, harbouring such activity= new investigative powers search and
seizure
• C-42 allows gov declare and create military security zone/ armed encampment CN soil
• USA Patriot Act gives sweeping new powers to police and military forces in US which
will have impact on freedom, justice and order in CN
• Able search home/ workplace and seize property suspect w/o informing person
• FBI def domestic terrorism includes criticism capitalism and promotion socialism by left-
wing groups
• Auth submit non-citizens military tribunals and continental security zone around NA=
untold effects movement immigrants and refugees, as well civil liberties CNs
• New def terrorism as “ideologically motivated” empowers law enforcement officers
target ideology lies behind people’s actions- political ideology can be cited evidence
engaging crim activity= increasing number activists opposed corp globalization/ global
capitalism being invest, arrested, detained primarily grounds ideological disposition
• Prime target new wave anti-terrorist legislation is, therefore, the movement against
corporate globalization itself- current rallying cry anti-terrorism smokescreen much
larger political agenda
• In era of globalization is economic war in which the enemy is the people- new armies
occupation transnat corps and people’s fund democratic rights threatened
• Corporate security state- increasingly globalized economy, primary role state provide
secure climate profitable transnat investment and competition= rights transnat corps
supersede rights citizens (priority given providing security investors, not citizens)
• Finding right balance require fund changes role state and nature capitalism itself
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