Who uses power over who?

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Read these two texts Bad for us ! (p130-131) and The Empire of Bones on (p141) and listen to the Sacco and Vanzetti recording on page132.

Then formulate a question related to the notion of Faces and Places of Power. Answer your question using these three documents but also the other documents you studied in this sequence.
Introduce your subject, present the outline of your work and answer your question in writing

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[...] For this purpose, we need at least an equal power. In the event of war, such as the United States versus Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, or during the Cold War against the USSR, citizens prepare to resist an assault, like men hiding with rifles behind beach posts. It is also justified to keep any potential enemy agent at bay, either by interning into camps like Japanese residents, or by investigating on suspects, as was the case with so-called socialist artists under McCarthy's rule and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. [...]

[...] It can be accepted as legitimate or be in the hands of a few at the expense of others. As they say, "divide and rule". As for "places", it refers to the area under control or influence, whether a town's lands or the national territory. The question is: who uses power over who? Is it always fair? We will first see it is a means of defense against another power before we realise its corrupting power (forgive the tautology). To start with, virtually everyone enjoys freedom and refuses to live under someone else's yoke. [...]

[...] Within the notion of forms and places of power, the role that governments play is just as topical as ever in several countries. Two examples: first the United States, which launched a crusade against Irak's alleged weapons of mass destruction and set up the Echelon network to spy on every citizen's conversations; and second, the French Deep State that fomented Macron's election against the fear of the Brown Plague, with the results that we see today. Another question arises: to whom do designated enemies benefit? Who pulls the strings? [...]