Historical precedent framing exploits felt threat to override civil liberties protections

Evidence

President Bush designated three nations—Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—and “their terrorist allies” as the “axis of evil,” deliberately invoking the term that described America’s enemies of World War II to gain public support for the invasion of Iraq (Sanger, 2002). … The public was reminded that Abraham Lincoln did this during the Civil War, and Franklin D. Roosevelt did so during World War II. When people feel threatened, concern for personal safety outweighs protection of privacy rights and civil liberties. Indeed, the public generally supported antiterorrism laws granting the government broad domestic surveillance powers to access, scan, and profile information on personal activities without public oversight and accountability (Langer, 2005). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2332

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that threat perception systematically outweighs civil-liberty concern corroborates the vault’s existing picture of how fearful publics authorize surveillance and punitive policy. — connects to: Governments override civil-liberty principles when threats to survival arise. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 532
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2332