Counterinsurgency techniques move between the red scare and the green scare unchanged

Evidence

Terrorism as a category is fluid and opportunistic and can be expanded to include new and emerging threats. In the context of the mass multiracial BLM uprisings against police violence in the summer of 2020, Trump declared his intention to designate the anti-fascist political movement Antifa as a terrorist organization. This should not surprise anyone since measures used to control Communists and later the New Left, anti-war, and civil rights activists like COINTELPRO were applied to Arab Americans and later Iranian Americans. The McCarran–Walter Act originally designed to target leftists was expanded to include supporters of Palestinian rights. Whether during the Cold War and the “red scare” or the war on terror and the “green scare,” the imperial state is ever vigilant, seeking to quell insurgency before it can threaten the system. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 631

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the vault’s Aziz/Razack/Rana cluster claim that Islamophobia is a scapegoating mechanism of empire — here Kumar explicitly names law-enforcement surveillance tools as transferable between target groups. — connects to: The green scare is weaker than the red scare and needs constant media reinforcement — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 573
• SEED: The McCarran-Walter Act’s journey from leftist-targeting to Palestinian-rights-suppression could anchor an essay on how the domestic counterinsurgency apparatus migrates across designated enemies.

Broader Connections

• The green scare is weaker than the red scare and needs constant media reinforcement #complicates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 573