{"id":311982,"date":"2017-06-09T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dreams-of-detention\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:27:39","slug":"dreams-of-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dreams-of-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detention comes in various forms, and all have a basic premise: the removal of liberty of the subject, the presence of permanent control and surveillance, the utter reduction of rights to life to obligations to the state.<\/p>\n

The suggestion of internment of terror suspects by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hints at a historical awareness of one thing: that rounding up citizens and keeping them under lock and key, assisted by firearms, is one way of dealing with a threat.\u00a0 That such an idea is dangerously flawed is not something that enters the One Nation party room.<\/p>\n

On the Sunrise program, Hanson insisted<\/a> that Yacqub Khayre\u2019s attack in Brighton had been motivated by religion. Then came her suggestion.\u00a0 \u201cIt is an ideology and with these people, you know what?\u00a0 Intern them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to see one more Australian killed or one more person in fear of their life or their kids lives.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In the United States, this form of internment was practised<\/a> on a massive scale during the Second World War.\u00a0 Citizens were held up; rights were trammeled and even muted.\u00a0 In Korematsu v United States<\/em>, such internment was subjected to Supreme Court scrutiny.<\/a>\u00a0 Given the times, the verdict was not favourable for US citizens of Japanese ethnicity and ancestry.<\/p>\n

While it is commonly mistaken to be a case decided solely on whether internment was legal (it had, in fact, to do with a bureaucratic matter of excluding persons from various zones on West Coast of the US), the result was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Detention comes in various forms, and all have a basic premise: the removal of liberty of the subject, the presence of permanent control and surveillance, the utter reduction of rights to life to obligations to the state. The suggestion of internment of terror suspects by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hints at a historical awareness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}