Sociology 3363F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Counter-Terrorism
17 Dec 2017
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Impetus: response to global war on terror and perception (reality) of racial/religious persecution. Activities: low-tech attacks, subversive tactics with large-scale threats. Geography: international, full globalized threat; often domestic attack. Goals: formation of non-secular states; political and economic forms. Response: overwhelmingly negative; public calls to expand our understanding of terrorism. Violence in response to political and social change. Tactics of intimidation (bombs, innocent people, targeting influential people, etc. ) Targeting symbolic apparatuses (i. e. , government buildings, tourist locations, military checkpoints, public gatherings, police, etc. ) Proclamations of goals and motivations (in advance or following attack) Need a definition of terrorism before defining terrorist group. Policy directives target already marginalized individuals and groups with new interventions. Legislation continues to challenge civil liberties in the name of counterterrorism. Central to debates about privacy vs. security. How we define terrorism is important for a host of government agencies. Exam question csis (canadian security intelligence service) actually was created in 1984 because of the failures of the rcmp.
