The either/or of civil liberties versus national security is a dangerous one. It produces an ideology that it is OK to sacrifice the rights of some people over others. This way of thinking has led to some of the worst human rights abuses in history, including the internment of Japanese Americans.

XREF: Connects to arguments about the trade-off framing of security versus privacy in surveillance debates.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 480