Domestic Security

Question 1

What is the role of the military?

Answer 1

Replaced by police for crime but continues to prop up the regime securing it from external threats and even serious internal threats even if its illegitimate.

Question 2

What are the views of the Police?

Answer 2

Liberal - neutral
Conservatives - essential because humans are impure and need to be controlled
Radical - police are a source of support for elites
Police state - untethered from rule of law

Question 3

What is the point of US Homeland Security

Answer 3

To install “preventative measures” to deal with many possible and surprising attacks

Question 4

What is the point of Canada’s Bill C-51?

Answer 4

Post-911, conservatives improved the flow of information between intelligence agencies, facilitated preventative arrests, and criminalizing promotion of terrorism.

Question 5

Bill C-59?

Answer 5

Moderated the effects of C-51. Such as raising the standard for preventive arrests.

Question 6

Securitization?

Answer 6

Issues that have no logical connection to security are securitized for irrelevant reasons such as immigration policy

Question 7

Broken windows theory?

Answer 7

Police attentiveness to small crime does not reduce crime but instead raises the roof of discrimination

Question 8

CSIS origins?

Answer 8

Overreaching of RCMP lead to creation of CSIS which split from law enforcement into intelligence gathering