In addition to the usual increased capacity to intrude on citizens' lives, potential curbs on freedom and normal legal practices were introduced. As Richard Jackson puts it, constructing the supreme emergency “creates a situation of extreme crisis … where normal politics is suspended and where the usual checks and balances on the exercise of power can be dispensed with”—the idea being to produce a sense of paranoia where the public “feels grateful to the state for relieving an anxiety which was encouraged by officials in the first place.”

XREF: Connects to the manufactured-crisis concept in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and surveillance-state arguments.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 358