Pantazis and Pemberton envisage suspicion in the form of a pyramid, in which at the top, a minority of formal suspects is targeted by control orders and surveillance, in the middle informal suspects are targeted by stop and search orders, and finally at the bottom the whole community is targeted by media, political and civil society discourses. Stemming from the bases of national identity, distinction to be made to sperate good and evil. This othering of these communities by society, basing their connection to terrorist activity through stereotyping, dissociation, dislocation and increased rhetoric of national identity ‘us and them’, leading to a stressing of these perceived abnormalities of those peoples and communities perceived engagement
