Liberty and Fear Anti-Terrorist Politics: Essay

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783). Gore sees a parallel between the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, after the attack upon Pearl Harbor and the treatment of Arab-Americans in the wake of the Bush Administration's fear-mongering and validation of public prejudices against Muslims. (This attitude conveyed from the top also fostered prejudice amongst ordinary citizens: A commonly-cited complaint of some airplane passengers is that too many 'non obvious' suspects are subject to routine frisks, while 'obvious' suspects pass, effective code words for non-Arabs vs. Arabs).

However, there is an essential difference in the curtailment of American liberties after 9/11 and after World War II: its racial and prejudiced nature. During the Cold War, because 'anyone' could theoretically be a communist, all individuals were subject to scrutiny.

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Thus, no matter how fearful, many ordinary Americans experienced just how onerous and self-defeating the McCarthy witch-hunts were to civil liberties. Additionally, because of the fact that all American young men could be drafted, the repercussions of Cold War militarism and the military-industrial complex's lies about Vietnam were suffered by almost all American families. This is not the case with the so-called war upon terrorism. The abuses of this so-called 'war' have been suffered disproportionately by members of certain demographic classes: Arab-Americans, Muslims, and finally individuals with young sons and daughters in the military. These men and women volunteered to act as warriors and peacekeepers for the nation, while the nation's leaders violated the citizenry's faith….....

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