4.2.2.2 Social Issues of Anti-Authoritarian Nationalism
There are some prominent issues appear in Anti-Flag song lyrics dealing with the ideology of nationalism.
Human experimentation is the first issue. It refers to the use of human as the subjects of tests and experiments. Main purpose of the doing is for the national
security. It deals with the concept of governments and its parliaments to protect the state and its citizens against all kinds of national issues. It is for the science
and pharmaceutical development. To heal ailments and injuries of human bodies is better to study humans than animals since animals are not identical to humans.
Human as a subjects are given the new vaccines or drugs for against some diseases as like malaria and hepatitis in order to know the effects of the new drugs
in human body. In military services, the tests and experiments conducted to support weapon
development programs. Some test programs are nuclear test program; it is purposively to gain a better understanding of the tactical effects on troops,
protective clothing and which thousands of people were exposed to mustard gas and lewisite agents: a chemical weapon, blister agent, lung irritant, which causes
severe burns and can cause death. It was done during World War II. Another tests with army was the biological warfare experiments. The purpose of the tests was to
determine U.S defense vulnerabilities to biological warfare. For example, between 1949 and 1969, the unaware population was sprayed with bacterial tracers or
stimulants. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
The reasons of causing the issue to be protested are first, it unethical. According to general ethical principles applied to research with human subjects
cited in Belmont are: autonomy, beneficence and justice. Autonomy means that the subjects have rights to determine which activities they will or will not
participate in and were told the reason why they become the subject and the consequents of being the experiment subject. Beneficence means the maximum
benefits for the participants and minimal risk of harm to them. Justice means equitable selection of participants: avoiding prisoners and institutionalized
children. In fact, the experiments are mostly unethical and illegal. Anti-Flag protest for the policy which has the serious consideration with society life.
Another issue is about the war. Different from the previous discussion about the war as the source of money-making, the issue is dealt with the war as
the actual action of the national security and national defense. It is about the involvement of United States in wars. Anti-Flag abuse that the United States has
forced on its own soldiers in wars. Not just soldiers, the citizens complacently work for the government to wage war in the interests of profits. United states
foreign involvement and the extreme suffering in the Third World war is one of the issue get protested. Not so different, anti-war and pro peace sentiments are
sounded in the era of George Bush. Those issues needed as the context helping analyze the song lyrics. The
lyrics will be analyzed using transitivity analysis and mood and modality analysis. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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