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Whose "Security" -- and for What?
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/199/editorial-security/Date Written: 2019-03-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23482 Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today. Abstract: -- Excerpt: "Security" becomes the catchword of the moment. Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful wall" will, or won't, enhance border protections from drugs, trafficking, and all manner of brown people with or without prayer rugs. The threat of repeated government shutdowns might end when the two houses of Congress figured out a deal for "securing the border" that Rush Limbaugh would give Trump permission to sign. Or not.... Meanwhile, there are millions of people without security, whose lives are made worse and more insecure by Trump’s antics - and by the cynical manipulations of imperialism, in this hemisphere and globally. Where is "security" for the people of Venezuela, or Honduras, or Yemen, or in African and Asian countries already devastated by effects of climate change?.... It's important at this critical moment to get beneath the surface of the "border security" discourse. Trump's vanity wall is absurd, of course, even in terms of his own definitions of national security. The United States is not confronted with an "invasion" of "illegal aliens" storming the border; drugs in large quantities are arriving through ports of entry, not hauled on people’s backs through the desert; sex trafficking and exploitation are not facilitated by the "ease" of entering the United States, but precisely by the difficulty of doing so. Subject Headings |