"It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing. Hence that
double system of
protection that justice has set up between itself and the punishment it
imposes. Those who carry
out the penalty tend to become an autonomous sector, justice is relieved of
responsibility for it by
a bureaucratic concelment of the penalty itself." (Discipline_and_Punish, pp.
10)
It's a very bad idea to place the tortured body under the spotlight, it
reverses the roles and make
the criminal an object of pity or admiration, breaking down solidarity.
Modern penal justice
system replaces punishment with the trial and prosecution process as the
spectacle, it's the
certainty of punishment (and not the horrifying sovereign power over the body)
that disciplines.
Politicial Institution presented liberty as "reason" to wage war, "those who
commit terrorism will
certainly be punished" -- the war is "legit" as long as the American
aggression doesn't exceed the
crime of the terrorists. You can't have a sovereign government and
"liberated" lifestyle at the same
time.
This confirms my subjective view that freedom is a myth; a rosy picture of
"liberty" is presented to
public, only because consent is always more useful than coercion. There is no
such thing as a war
for liberty or a war against terrorism; it's a war between Islamic religion
and Judeo-Christian
religion.
Just my opinionated 5 cents (due to inflation).
-Cordelia
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The belief in truth is precisely madness - Nietzsche
I had been mad enough to study reason - Foucault
double system of
protection that justice has set up between itself and the punishment it
imposes. Those who carry
out the penalty tend to become an autonomous sector, justice is relieved of
responsibility for it by
a bureaucratic concelment of the penalty itself." (Discipline_and_Punish, pp.
10)
It's a very bad idea to place the tortured body under the spotlight, it
reverses the roles and make
the criminal an object of pity or admiration, breaking down solidarity.
Modern penal justice
system replaces punishment with the trial and prosecution process as the
spectacle, it's the
certainty of punishment (and not the horrifying sovereign power over the body)
that disciplines.
Politicial Institution presented liberty as "reason" to wage war, "those who
commit terrorism will
certainly be punished" -- the war is "legit" as long as the American
aggression doesn't exceed the
crime of the terrorists. You can't have a sovereign government and
"liberated" lifestyle at the same
time.
This confirms my subjective view that freedom is a myth; a rosy picture of
"liberty" is presented to
public, only because consent is always more useful than coercion. There is no
such thing as a war
for liberty or a war against terrorism; it's a war between Islamic religion
and Judeo-Christian
religion.
Just my opinionated 5 cents (due to inflation).
-Cordelia
---------------------------
The belief in truth is precisely madness - Nietzsche
I had been mad enough to study reason - Foucault