Counter Subversion Pros And Cons

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America is reveled as one of the greatest contemporary nations in the world. Patriots have a strong notion that it is a source of good in an unjust world, and it’s aims are pure and just. Contrary to belief, America is corrupted by the lying and politics that regularly poisons its people and sovereign system. A key example is counter-subversion and the regular action of evils acted on part of the government to try and “protect” the “perfect” system set in place by our Founding Fathers. Theories described and created by Niccolò Machiavelli will help aid and describe what is considered to be corrupt. First off, counter-subversion is an action designed to detect and counteract the attempts and actions to undermine the power and authority of …show more content…

With this definition, we are supposed to believe that the importance of the topic is not to be politically debated, however it brings to question what can be considered a “national security.” If any circumstance could be designated a security on the national level, all of a sudden it seems to be that one could lie to prevent the revealing of classified information that could create the appearance of a corrupt nation. This idea also still has a political meaning even with the construction of it being based around the lack of political input. This is an attempt to “protect” the United States of America from communist thought and the nations associated with it. With threats like Soviet Russia and China; the two beings the main bodies of communist thought. This thought however, does not occupy a specific territory. The point is, there …show more content…

When potential spies were caught and removed from society, two different actions could occur but not often would happen in the same case. The first was the initial act of torture to acquire information. The Central Intelligence Agency, or commonly referred as the C.I.A., was marked as being the first to use torture methods. This plays a key role on the War on Terror. Suddenly, the CIA is making far more progress at obtaining information that could be used for counter subversion. The Secretary of Defense felt like their department was no longer effective and sought for the ability and legal reconstruction to allow the defense department to use “Enhanced Interrogation Methods” to achieve their end goals. Different strategies could be used, but this requires a defining of what torture truly is. Torture is generally conceived as a severe pain, whether physical or mental, inflicted on a body. This was later described to include the intent to inflict the pain by John Yoo and how one describes severe pain as the description of torture. The different ways of torturing a person include some methods developed by the Soviets, and include isolation from other people and sleep deprivation. The point here is torture is a type of corruption formed by the attempts of creating a counter subversive force. Using torture was considered poor morals and reflected

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