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+We begin in 1971, the U.S. sanctioned Counter Intelligence Program is terminated after the infiltration, surveillance, and disruption of political organizations such as the Black Panthers is fully exposed to the public. The official history has rendered COINTELPRO a moment of the past, a ghost that the U.S. has put to rest in our new post-racial era – but while COINTELPRO died off, the superstructure that sustains the violence of such programs did not disappear; it simply found new conduits of power to exploit. |
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+Qualified immunity is one of these new conduits of state power – It has obscured the 1st Amendment, which creates limitations on our ability to freely watch the police. |
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+Chen 15 (Qualified Immunity Liming Access to Justice and Impeding Development of the Law”, Vol. 41 No. 1, Alan K. Chen, the William M. Beaney Memorial Research Chair and professor of law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, federal courts, and public interest law, American Bar Association, http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/2015~-~-vol~-~-41-/vol~-~-41~-~-no~-~-1~-~--lurking-in-the-shadows~-~-the-supreme-court-s-qui/qualified-immunity-limiting-access-to-justice-and-impeding-devel.html) Black Lavender |
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+What this means is that in cases involving cutting-edge issues of constitutional law |
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+(2010) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari). |
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+Just as the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a field office to expose COINTELPRO, watching the watchers through counterwatching exposes the cracks of the courts and police in the name of resistance and justice. K – Haaris |
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+Fiske 96 – (John Fiske, Spring 1996, “Black Bodies of Knowledge: Notes on an Effective History,” Cultural Critique No. 33 p. 188 - 192), Black Lavender |
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+Effective history emphasizes events, discontinuities, and multiplicities over the homogenizing trend of the |
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+strong knowledge systems overlook, that carry the effective truths of the disempowered. |
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+Countervisuality is a methodology for interrogating the way state domination and Antiblack violence projects through the state that sets a framework that allows for remapping of society and a resurgence outside of the state. The affirmative’s starting point of the “Right to Look” is a necessary performance that rejects the dismissal of rights and challenges the root cause of state domination. |
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+Mirzoeff 11 (Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, "The Right to Look", Duke University Press 2011, CONCEPTUALIZING COUNTERVISUALITY) Black Lavender |
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+Carlyle presented visuality as naturally authoritative while being aware not only of opposition, but |
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+that are not designed to preserve them and have not always done so. |
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+Surveillance arose from the plantation. The slave was reduce to an object that was presenced through techniques such as oversight that positions black bodies as epistemological possessions |
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+Mirzoeff 11. Nicholas, professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, “The Right to Look”, Duke University Press 2011. The Ordering of Slavery |
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+The deployment of visuality and visual technologies as a Western social technique for ordering was |
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+meaning the nomination of what was visible to the overseer on the plantation. |
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+The State and FBI have named and categorized counter watching as domestic terrorism with the same logic that created COINTELPRO – Only by filming the police can we protect ourselves against state abuses of power. |
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+Bernd, 14. Candice Bernd is an editor/staff reporter at Truthout. With her partner, she is writing and producing Don't Frack With Denton, a documentary chronicling how her hometown became the first city to ban fracking in Texas, and its subsequent overturn in the state legislature. She is also a contributor to Truthout's anthology on police violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? – Black Lavender |
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+When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed |
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+charges of interference or failing to identify themselves during their cop watching activities. |