Obama was able to go unchallenged for so long on security matters because as a Democrat, he has faced less scrutiny for his counter-terrorism policies than his Republican predecessor, said Mr. There are no shortcuts to protecting America.” This administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security.
“We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary. I will provide our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom,” Mr. Bush “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. Obama said Friday the whole thing had been “hyped.” But that was not what he said on the campaign trail. In a plenary lecture for this week’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Victoria - known as the Learneds - he calls it the shift from “fear” to “fun,” from surveillance as a security tool to a social media pastime.
Making sense of this stylistic shift in surveillance, from top-down secret observation by authorities to “lateral surveillance” of the people by the people, requires a refreshed perspective, according to David Lyon, professor of sociology and director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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