While this use of anthropology isn't new, it looks to becoming increasingly invasive and consequently manipulative. As an anthropologist, I believe this to be an unethical use of our training and our skills, and a betrayal of any public trust we might otherwise earn. Anthropologists who engage with corporate capitalism would do better to study the corporatists and teach the rest of use how to better resist. We need anthropologists who will teach us how to reclaim our citizenhood, not anthropologists who will help drive us further into consumerdom. (P.S. I appreciate the Damon Knight/"Outer Limits" title.)
Nathaniel Wander
UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
The Scott Parkin case had nothing to do with Scott Parkin per se.
It was a test case for a number of reasons:
A. The loss of civil liberties in the name of terrorism. This was a benchmark case to test reactions.
B. It would also have been "a test" to see how Australian media people would respond and re-act.
C. It is also designed to intimidate what are called "activists".
D. The statement made by the attorney general as regards Scott also was a test case as to see who would challenge what he is saying "on record".
E. All the other test cases in the "boiling the frog syndrome" are more controversial. Keeping the Australian national in the American prison in Cuba. The Statements by Muslim leaders etc
Here in Western Australia an academic who wrote and published an anti-war book has come under the attention of American Military, but the local press remains silent.
All these test cases are testing to see how compliant Australian Media is.
The Australian newspaper is controlled with-in the Rupert Murdock agenda - so we can expect the editor to quote "un-named" contacts from with-in the Australian intelligence community - and no one challenges if the source indeed made 'such and such' a statement.
This recently happened with a front page Australian newspaper fear story (will post the day and date).
Margo Kingston's web diary seems one independent media along with indymedia.org
Everyone needs education. No child left behind is a great program that has left a lot of children with a place to go for a better life and better experiance with education. No child left behind allows children the oppurtunity to remove themselves from the streets and to further their education to live a proporous life.
<a href="http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/">Webdiary.com.au</a> has been following the Scott Parkin issue and today we published a comment from Scott on the Australian public's support for him <a href="http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/2005/10/scott_parkin_di.html#more"> here</a> (sourced from <a href="http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=13125">Perth Indymedia</a>).
While Horowitz likely means for his "Academic Bill of Rights" to be a hammer that disgruntled conservative students can use to bash teachers with whose politics they disagree, punishment of "thought crime" on campuses is rampant across the U.S.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (I'm not affiliated w/ it) has been defending both student and teacher rights for years in this arena.
Check out:
http://www.thefire.org
for more information about their mission and the cases the have handled. There are even a number of downloadable PDF file of Fire's guides to student rights on campus.
The Scott Parkin case had nothing to do with Scott Parkin per se.
It was a test case for a number of reasons:
A. The loss of civil liberties in the name of terrorism. This was a benchmark case to test reactions.
B. It would also have been "a test" to see how Australian media people would respond and re-act.
C. It is also designed to intimidate what are called "activists".
D. The statement made by the attorney general as regards Scott also was a test case as to see who would challenge what he is saying "on record".
E. All the other test cases in the "boiling the frog syndrome" are more controversial. Keeping the Australian national in the American prison in Cuba. The Statements by Muslim leaders etc
Here in Western Australia an academic who wrote and published an anti-war book has come under the attention of American Military, but the local press remains silent.
All these test cases are testing to see how compliant Australian Media is.
The Australian newspaper is controlled with-in the Rupert Murdock agenda - so we can expect the editor to quote "un-named" contacts from with-in the Australian intelligence community - and no one challenges if the source indeed made 'such and such' a statement.
This recently happened with a front page Australian newspaper fear story (will post the day and date).
Margo Kingston's web diary seems one independent media along with indymedia.org
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (I'm not affiliated w/ it) has been defending both student and teacher rights for years in this arena.
Check out:
http://www.thefire.org
for more information about their mission and the cases the have handled. There are even a number of downloadable PDF file of Fire's guides to student rights on campus.
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