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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.CARDE (today DRDC Valcartier) and produced by Canadair starting in 1953.Velvet Gloves had been completed when the program was terminated in 1956, officially because of concerns about its ability to be launched at supersonic speeds from the Avro Arrow then under design, but also from the design being overtaken by developments in the United States.Canuck fighter that was then entering service with the RCAF.Canadair was selected as the manufacturer, and Westinghouse was commissioned to build the radar guidance unit.The final missile design was about ten feet long and just under a foot in diameter.Westinghouse's microwave radar proximity fuze fired the 60 pound (27 kg) warhead.Trenton to fire over Picton.Interest in the Velvet Glove waned, as the Sparrow outperformed it in all ways.There were concerns that the Velvet Glove would be difficult to launch at supersonic speeds, likely due to its small control surfaces not having enough authority and therefore representing a risk to the aircraft.In the end Canadair was instructed to take over the Sparrow II, ending development of the Velvet Glove for good.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.This article does not cite any references or sources.Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel in English, written and drawn by Daniel Clowes.It follows a rather fantastic and paranoid story line, very different from the stark realism of Clowes' more widely known Ghost World.It contains nightmarish imagery, including dismemberment, deformed people and animals, and sexual fetishism.Plot
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron is the story of a man named Clay Loudermilk and his attempts to locate his estranged wife.For reasons unknown, Clay is in the audience at a porno theatre when he sees a bizarre BDSM feature, the star dominatrix of which is revealed to be his wife.Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is one of very few graphic novels to have inspired an official soundtrack album.In an issue of Eightball published after the conclusion of Velvet Glove, Clowes did a story about a hypothetical movie based on Velvet Glove.Clowes' original story beyond the title and a few superficial elements.The full line, as delivered by Lori Williams, is "You're cute, like a velvet glove cast in iron.Clowes uses the phrase What's the Frequency, Kenneth?Dan Rather incident, years before the R.During a dream sequence, the infamous Foot Foot from the song by The Shaggs can be seen gnawing on Clay's leg.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Do you have a question about the English language?Iron fist in a velvet glove' is the full form.Register for free and gain access to all of our additional reference materials, including additional idiom definitions.The
Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: Totalitarian Potentials Within Democratic
Structures
from The Social Fabric:
Dimensions and Issues; James E.Stan Cohen, Glenn Goodwin, Nancy Reichman,
Jim Short, Steve Spitzer, and Ron Westrum for critical comments.In addition
to the ASA meetings, some of the material was presented at a 1984 conference
on George Orwell sponsored by the Council of Europe, and appears in Dissent
(Winter 1985).The title is inspired by The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
(Crime and Social Justice Associates, 1982).Discovery and
invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective
than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosures in court of what is
whispered in the closet.As a polemical warning of what
could happen, Orwell's 1984 is masterful.Much of the trend data suggest even further movement from it.Indeed in many ways the society
sketched in 1984 is the opposite of contemporary Western democracies, especially
with respect to physically coercive forms of oppression and the social
conditions supporting such a repressive society.This would be cause to celebrate, were in not for the fact that new, and
potentially repressive, social forms and technologies have appeared.Brecht, as a man smiling
because he "has not yet heard the terrible news," however.For if the news
is not terrible, it does not follow that it is good.Orwell's state used both violent and nonviolent forms of social control.In linking these, Orwell described only one of several possible totalitarian
models: a model based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War and
his observations of the USSR, Germany, and Italy.Today, violent and nonviolent forms of social
control are becoming uncoupled, with the latter increasing in importance.Orwell's powerful vision
needs to be updated.The velvet glove is replacing,
covering, the iron fist.Orwell hints that the decline of physical coercion
is consistent with the rise of liberty:
The heirs of the French,
English, and American revolution had partly believed in their own phrases
about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and
the like, and had even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to
some extent.It does not follow
that the absence of physical oppression guarantees liberty.Given democratic political
values, Orwell identified the right set of terrible outcomes for his dystopia:
absence of privacy, freedom, and liberty, lack of individuality, mindless
conformity, misinformation and disinformation, rampant fear, insecurity,
and hatred, and the equation of morality and truth with power.Some of
these conditions are possible, however, within the framework of traditional
democratic societies.In the United States there
are clear limits on the use of coercion by control agents.But there are
few limits on efforts to shape behavior through culture and public relations
campaigns that seek to create the impression of police omnipresence and
omnipotence.Modern technology offers
an alternative set of causal mechanisms of social control beyond those
so frightfully described by Orwell.Two major forms of manipulation and deception involve efforts
to control culture through the mass media and new technologies of surveillance.The Control of Culture
The velvet glove comes in
various sizes and shapes and is more likely to hold what looks like a carrot
than a stick.For the affluent, a dazzling
array of consumer goods is available.However minimal relative to
the more affluent sectors of society, in absolute terms of these supports
are vastly superior to those available to the poor historically, and they
may serve to mute dissent.Orwell, and one that has inspired much scholarly research.In the past, to a much greater extent than today, culture tended to develop
nonpurposively from thousands of diverse sources, in an anarchic process
of nondirected evolution.Fox and Lears, 1983, Schudson,
1984).Even when we are aware that a choice has been made (for political candidate,
a foreign policy, an underarm deodorant, or a lifestyle), the technologies
seek to make us feel that the choice is rational and voluntary.It is far more efficient to have all eyes riveted on common
mass media stimuli offering messages of how to behave.Another prominent form of
the velvet glove involves medical and therapeutic responses to deviance,
dissent, and disorder.By defining subjects as sick and in need of treatment
(e.Here my attention must be limited to more direct forms of nonviolent
control involving surveillance."Every Breath You Take," by
Sting; Copyright (c) 1983 Magnetic Publishing Ltd.This song suggests that popular
culture is more attuned to the social control implications of the "new
surveillance" than is academic analysis.But their elders, too, are often
unaware of the extent to which surveillance has become embedded in everyday
relationships.The new surveillance is related
to broad changes in both technology and social organization.The rationalization
of crime control that began in the nineteenth century has crossed a critical
threshold as a result of recent technical and social developments.Technical
innovations permit social control to penetrate and intrude in ways that
previously were imagined only in science fiction.Gigantic data banks made
possible by computers raise important surveillance questions.The computers
of the five largest credit reporting companies control more than 150 million
individual credit records.Health records are increasingly computerized:
More than nine out of ten working Americans have individual or group health
insurance policies.Even pharmacies have begun to keep computerized records
on patient's drug use and health characteristics.Electronic Funds Transfer has become central
to banking.The size and reach of criminal justice data bases, such as
the FBI's National Criminal Justice Information Center, continue to grow.Surveillance is qualitatively
altered with computers, as well.Bureaucratic checking of records before
the advent of computers tended to be for errors, internal consistency,
and missing information.With computerization, surveillance is routinized, broadened,
and deepened.Many issues of privacy, civil
liberties, uses of and control over information, unauthorized access, errors,
and the right of persons about whom information is gathered, are raised
by computer matching and profiling operations (see, e.Matching involved the comparison
of information from two or more distinct data sources.In the United States
more than 500 computer matching programs are routinely carried out by government
at state and federal levels, and the matching done by private interests
is far more extensive.Profiling involves an indirect and inductive logic.Often clues are sought that will increase the probability of discovering
violations.The computer correctly determined
that she had more than the minimum amount permitted in a savings account.What the computer did not know was that the money was held in trust for
a local funeral director and was to be used for her burial expenses.Regulations
exempt burial contracts from asset calculations.Another woman was automatically
cut off welfare because a loan for her son's college education had been
temporarily deposited in her bank account pending payment of his tuition.Despite
repeated notifications of her new status, her welfare checks continued
to come in the mail.Before
her trial, her name (along with 15 others) was listed in a newspaper story
describing the successful results of a computer match.In 1982 it sent out about 2000
form letters alleging "copying" to takers of its scholastic aptitude tests
based partly on computer analysis.In New York City, because
of computer matching, persons cannot purchase a marriage license or register
a deed for a new home if they have outstanding parking tickets.Cameras, with complete 360degree
movement and the ability to tape record are often concealed in ceiling
globes.The telescreen surveillance
in 1984 is a wonderful representation of the panoptic eye envisioned by
social theorists such as Bentham.It could not hear "a very low whisper" nor could movements "in darkness"
be seen.Aircraft surveillance was limited to "Police Patrol" helicopters that,
when "snooping into people's windows," had to skim "down between roofs."Surveillance technology need
not rely on relatively primitive helicopters skimming between buildings
to permit peering into people's windows.AWACs" that can spot a car
or a person from 30,000 feet up have been used for surveillance of drug
traffickers.Satellite may soon be used for this purpose as well, from
180 miles up.The CIA has apparently used satellite photographs for "domestic
coverage" to determine the size and activities of antiwar demonstrations
and civil disorders.The "starlight scope" light
amplifier developed for the Vietnam War can be used with a variety of film
and video cameras or binoculars.It needs only starlight, a partial moon,
or a street lamp 500 yards away.By amplifying light 85,000 times night
turns into day.The light amplifier can be mounted on a tripod or worn as goggles.The agency is beyond customary judicial and
legislative controls and can apparently disseminate information to other
government agencies without a warrant (Bramford, 1983; Krajick, 1983).The transmission of phone
communication in digital form via microwave relays and satellites along
with "cellular" automobile and cordless telephones using radio waves for
transmissions and communication between computers offer new possibilities
for eavesdropping.Equipped with a sonar rangefinder,
sonic and infrared sensor, and an odor detector for locating humans, the
robot can find its way through a strange building.Should it encounter
an intruder, a stern synthesized voice intones, "You have been detected."It patrols an
area and identifies intruders.Users can choose the robot's weaponry and
whether or not human command (from a remote monitoring station) is needed
before it opens fire.The receiver relays a signal to a central computer.If the wearer
stays beyond 150 feet from the receiver or tries to remove or unplug the
device, the interruption of the signal is displayed on a computer.Surveillance of workers on
assembly lines, in offices, and in stores, has expanded with computerized
electronic devices.Employee theft of expensive components or tools
may be deterred by embedded sensors that emit a signal when taken through
a barrier.Even executives are not exempt.In some major American corporations
communication flows (memo circulation, use of internal phone systems) are
closely tracked.In some offices, workers
must inform the computer when they are going to the bathroom and when they
return.The computer controls
access to restricted areas, while continuously monitoring employee location.The information is also used to "evaluate tardy employees."Integrated "management systems"
are now available that offer visual, audio, and digital information about
the behavior of employees and customers.Before gaining access, or a benefit, a person's eyes are photographed through
a set of binoculars, and an enlarged print of the retina pattern is compared
to previous print on file.Retina patterns are said to be more individual
than thumbprints, offering greater certainty of identification.There is
also a much improved technique for footprint or footwear identification.Signature verification technology, which analyzes the pressure and direction
of a signature as it is being signed, can be automatically compared to
data stored from previous signatures.The last decade has seen increased
use of "scientific inference" or "personal truth technology," based on
body clues (such as the polygraph, voice stress analysis, blood and urine
analysis, and dogs and machines that "smell" contraband).Although precise data on
polygraph use are not available, indirect evidence suggests that its use
is increasing (Hayden, 1981; Lykken, 1984).The number of persons trained
to operate polygraphs has significantly increased role.The most common
use is not in criminal settings, but to screen job applicants.Increased public concern
over drunk driving has led to broad population screens using roadblocks.The CIA has reportedly used microwave lie detectors
that measure stomach flutters from a half a mile away (Christian Science
Monitor, 1984).The individual undercover worker making
isolated arrests has been supplemented by highly coordinated and staged
team activities involving technological aides and many agents and arrests.The number of such investigations
steadily increased from 53 in 1977, to 239 in 1979, to 463 in 1981.Federal cabinet agencies are required to have hotlines
where citizens can report abuses.All 19 federal inspector general offices
have hotlines for receiving allegations of fraud, waste mismanagement,
and other abuses.Many private companies maintain
an internal hotlines for anonymous reporting, WeTiP, Inc.Televised reenactments ("the crime of the week") are used to encourage
witnesses to unsolved crimes to come forward.There is even a new mass circulation publication called
Reward Magazine, the page of which are designed to look like wanted posters.There are also more generalized forms.Some legislation also makes it a crime
not to report certain kinds of violations such as hazardous working or
environmental condition.According to one estimate 20,000 communities have from 5 million
to 10 million members of such groups.The National Sheriff's Association
sponsors a group called "Neighborhood Watch" that exists in 2,500 communities.The Citizens Crime
Watch in Dade County, Florida, has 175,000 members and, like many such
groups, has extended its operations into schools.What were once scattered
and isolated groups are nationally organized.National
staffs hold conferences aimed at starting new groups.Technology makes these intrusions
easier.Technical impossibility and inefficiency have declined as the unplanned
protectors of liberty.TRANSCENDS TIME AND ITS RECORDS
CAN EASILY BE STORED, RETRIEVED, COMBINED, ANALYZED, AND COMMUNICATED.Information is easily sent back to a central source, making
possible economies of scale.In the novel Gorky Park the police
inspector asks a central character who she suspects of having stolen her
iceskates.She replies, "Everyone," to which the inspector responds, "So
do I."The camera, the tape recorder, the identity card,
the metal detector, the obligatory tax form that must be filled out even
if one has no incomes, and the computer make all who come within their
province reasonable targets for surveillance.These "softer" forms of control
tend toward the creation of a society where people are permanently under
suspicion and surveillance.As Gordon Liddy observed in justifying the Watergate
operation, "Closing the barn door after the horse has gone" does no good.Anticipatory strategies seek to reduce risk and uncertainty.In contrast to the trend of the last century, information
can now in principle flow as freely from the center to society's periphery
as the reverse.National data resources are available to widely dispersed
local officials.The power of national elites, in turn, may also increase
as they obtain instant information on those in the farthest reaches of
the network.Persons often are motivated to report themselves to government agencies
and large organizations and corporations in return for some benefit or
to avoid a penalty.It becomes ever more difficult to ascertain when and whether
one is being watched and who is doing the watching.Evidence may be hidden until some special process identifies
it, as with fluorescent dust markings, hidden marks on currency and stocks,
or a tiny beeper placed in a vehicle.Broad new categories
of person and behavior have become subjects for information collection
and analysis, and as the pool of persons watched expands, so does the pool
of watchers.Anyone may be watched: everyone is a potential watcher.The
creation of uncertainty about whether or not surveillance is present is
an important strategic element.The awesome power of the
new surveillance lies in the paradoxical, never before possible combination
of decentralized and centralized forms.The new surveillance has
been generally welcomed by business, government, and law enforcement.Satellite photography
can monitor factory compliance with pollution emission standards.We are not hapless victims
of technological determinism.Technology is created and used in social
contexts, and choices are possible.Absent a better statistical
pictures of extensiveness and consequences, and agreement as to how conflicting
values are to be weighed, any such conclusion is unwarranted.But the eagerness
to innovate and infatuation with technical progress and gimmickry may obscure
real dangers.There is nowhere to run or
to hide.Citizens' ability to evade surveillance
is diminishing.Participation in the consumer society and the welfare state
requires personal information.The new surveillance goes
beyond merely invading privacy, as this term has conventionally been understood.Many of the constraints that made privacy possible are now irrelevant.The new technology transcends these barriers.Individual freedom and liberty
prosper when detailed information about a person's life, for the most part,
is private.The idea of starting over in the new world or moving West to
a new frontier, is a powerful one.American popular
culture prides itself on looking at what a person does today rather than
what they may have done in the past.Devices such as sealed or destroyed
records, prohibitions on certain kinds of record keeping, and constant
requirements for the release of information reflect these concerns.With massive computerized
"jackets" on everyone so easily accessible, the past is likely to become
increasingly important in structuring individual opportunities.Persons
may never cease paying for earlier misdeeds.Aside from the possibility
of locking in erroneous or sabotaged data, this may have the unintended
consequence of permanent stigmatization.It might even increase commitment
to rule breaking.As records of education,
work, health, housing, civil suits, and the like become ever more important
in administering society, persons may decline needed services (as for mental
health), avoid conflictual or controversial action (filing a grievance
against a landlord), shun taking risks and experimenting for fear of what
it will look like on the record.In 1930 much
of what an individual wished to keep private could be kept in a desk drawer
or a safe deposit box.But the location of personal information has shifted
from the person to the large organization.Property in the form of information
is less tangible.It can be seen or sent without a trace, and often without
consent.Because the Fourth Amendment was designed for more tangible forms
of property, and at a time when persons had much greater physical control
over the things they wished to keep private, it does not cover recent incursions.The intrusive search behavior characteristic of the new surveillance is
inconsistent with the spirit, if not the letter, of the Bill of Rights.Some of these, ironically,
must rely on new technologies (such as encrypted or scrambled communications,
antiradar and debugging devices).Legislation and heightened public awareness
are also important.Yet more is at stake than
privacy.To be sure, in modern society suspiciousness is often a prudent response.If the government and large private
organizations feel they must take such intrusive steps, is there not a
great deal to fear?Legitimacy thus may be unintentionally damaged.Corruption
in Congress or the judiciary may lead people to the cynical conclusion
that all participants in basic institutions are corrupt.Surveillance practices
of business may encourage alienation on the part of employees.Making means of anonymous
denunciation too easily available may also encourage distrust and lead
to false and malicious accusations.Because much
surveillance is of low visibility or covert, accountability is lessened
and exploitation and coverups are enhanced.Distrust is furthered to
the extent that social control seeks to perpetuate the "myth of surveillance."Advocates argue that creating the impression that persons are always being
watched, or that they can never tell when they are being watched, results
in deterrence.But it may also deter legitimate behavior such as political
expression or applying for entitlements.The perception that surveillance
is more powerful than it really is also deceives.Deception occurs also when control agents and situations are
disguised (e.Efforts to convince people
that techniques involving the polygraph, voice stress analyzer, and computer
are more powerful than they actually are also deceive.Many people stand
in fear of supposedly scientific investigative techniques.Nixon's remarks
on the Watergate tapes are instructive: "Listen, I don't know anything
about polygraphs, and I don't know how accurate they are, but I do know
that they'll scare the hell out of people."This
gives rise to a variety of ruses.The new surveillance
may create an electronic climate of suspiciousness.The tables may also be turned as private citizens or public interest
groups use computers and other surveillance means to monitor government
and corporate activity.The scale is still overwhelmingly
tipped toward government and large organizations.As the examples cited suggest, the
new surveillance has great repressive potential (in actuality or via myth).But it is invariable less than perfectly effective and certain, and it
is subject to manipulation and error.This suggests that, over time, many of these systems will disproportionately
net the marginal, amateur, occasional, or opportunistic violator rather
than the master criminal.The potential for harm
may be so great, should social conditions change, that creating surveillance
systems may not be justified to begin with (e.Because there is as yet no
catastrophe and there are many benign examples to point to, this argument
is usually not given much credence.Once
these systems are institutionalized and taken for granted, even in a democratic
society, they can be used for harmful ends.As Sinclair Lewis argued (It Can't Happen Here),
it would come in traditional American guise, with the gradual erosion of
liberties.Voluntary participation,
beneficent rationales, and changes in cultural definition and language
hide the onerous aspects of the new surveillance.The first task of a society
that would have liberty and privacy is to guard against the misuse of physical
coercion on the part of the state and private parties.The second task
is to guard against the softer forms of secret and manipulative control.Because they are subtle, indirect, invisible, diffuse, deceptive, and shrouded
in benign justifications, this is clearly the more difficult task.The title is inspired by The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
(Crime and Social Justice Associates, 1982).Police lyrics reprinted with
permission of Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation.Evaluating how closely data
characterize a work of art is similar to a Rorschach test, where observers
offer very different interpretations depending on their social locations,
needs, and starting assumptions.Whether a glass of water is half empty
or half full, and whether its purity should be judged by the highest standard
imaginable or the worst known case, are hardy scientific questions, however
precise and valid our measurements.Yet optimism with respect to civil
rights and civil liberties seems warranted when contemporary Western democracies
are compared to their checkered pasts, to capabilities and what is done
in practice.Americans, whereas
the image of equally powerful and repressive private groups does not.By offering
escapism and an unrepresentative picture of society, the media may also
focus attention away from problems and avoid political challenges.This
discussion is at the level of political theory.Forced to choose, the newer forms of control
are likely less unattractive, although to some observers such as Paul Goodman,
the choice between "the lesser of two evils" is not a choice between a
half and a full loaf, "but between a more and less virulent form of rat
poison."Similar themes are sounded in a song by Hall and Oates, "Private Eyes":
"They are watchin' you, they see your every move."By surveillance
I mean, watching or monitoring persons, events, records, or places in order
to discover violations, means of violations, or violators.By social
control I mean the effort to see that others conform to rules.These forms
of course may occur simultaneously or be intertwined.But they are distinct forms.Laws
are unclear or contradictory here.Federal Communications Commission
law protects voice transmissions that are sent over wires.More
generally EAS (electronic article surveillance) systems are constantly
being extended.Clinical
Chemical News, as reported in Privacy Journal (March 1984, vol.Brodeur's
(1983) discussion of the expansion of a more absorbent style of "high"
police makes an equivalent point.In a
useful discussion Gross (1984) stresses informing as the principal mechanism
by which totalitarian states penetrate the private domain.Like
dolphins unintentionally caught in fishing nets set for tuna, persons eligible
for benefits may be hurt as well.Whether
all those who withdrew were in fact ineligible, and others who were eligible
subsequently did not apply, is an interesting question.The subject is then asked to tell a lie
and sees the dial go up, supposedly indicating that the lie has been detected.What the subject doesn't know is that the operator causes the dial to move,
independent of what the subject has said.Appropriately impressed, the
examination begins.The seeming paradox of computers
perceived in the United States as a symbol of big brother and in the USSR
as a symbol of liberation is partly resolved be separating large, institutionally
controlled, main frame computers, from small, privately controlled microcomputers.The
source of the limitations vary.The data are often rather blunt and acontexual.Chemical analyses
that may be valid in suggesting drug in a person's system can not reveal
how they got there (thus THC may appear in the bloodstream because a person
smoked marijuana or simply because they were around people who were smoking
it).The inquisitor in 1984 tells the frail Winston, "I am always able
to detect a lie."No such certainty can be claimed by current truth detection
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