Nanny State?

After reading the chapter in discipline and punish, I was reminded of
the situation in the united states after the September 11 attacks. The
US government used this situation to their advantage. The book mentions
“the plague is met by order” (197). Terrorism is the plague, and
terrorist are the infected. The attacks caused massive chaos, but the
government created order. The Patriot Act was created to give the
government the freedom to find out what citizens were doing at any given
moment. The government can now find out everyone’s “true name, true
place, true body, true disease” (198). If something is discovered that
can affect the rest society, the terrorist are segregated to prevent
another catastrophe. People were blacklisted from flying, border
security became a priority, and rules regarding privacy were tossed out.
The innocent until proven guilty portion of our society was eliminated
for those who were deemed to have terrorist tie in order to halt the
spread of fear. They were quarantined in Guantanamo away from the
population in order to determine how much of a threat they were.

Something that I always hear about is Britain being a Nanny State. They
have CCTV everywhere to catch anything that happens, similar to Big
Brother in 1984. But it has also been reported that crime is rising,
especially among youths. This goes against the idea that if you are
watched you will follow the rules of society is being proven false in
that country.