{"id":67362,"date":"2024-04-17T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67362"},"modified":"2024-04-17T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:56:23","slug":"state-violence-is-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67362","title":{"rendered":"State Violence Is The Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Violence Is The Norm<\/a><\/h3>\n

Rewilding is the solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been thinking a lot recently about centralisation as a violent force. In short: state violence. It\u2019s hard not to think about at the moment, given Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinian people, backed by America\u2019s imperialist agenda who, along with their British allies, have been dropping bombs on Yemen because the Houthis dared destabilise shipping in the red sea as protest against genocide. It\u2019s hard not to think about state violence when one state is taken to international court by another who knows first hand the bloody scars of apartheid only for that genocidal state to decry the court as discriminating against them\u2014only to launch a series of attacks on neighbouring countries. It\u2019s hard not to think about state violence when one of those countries responds in violence.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to think about state violence when environmental defenders are being\u00a0killed<\/a>, locked up and branded \u2018terrorists\u2019 in an obvious move to mobilise\u00a0intensifying criminalisation of civil protest<\/a>. It\u2019s hard not to think about state violence when children are\u00a0going hungry in wealthy nations<\/a>, energy companies are raking in mind-boggling, record-breaking\u00a0profits<\/a>\u00a0at the expense of a stable society, and\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0are murdering women.<\/p>\n

These are particularly awful examples, but state violence is the norm. In his phenomenal essay on legal interpretation,\u00a0Violence and the Word<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Robert Cover astutely pointed out the law\u2019s fundamental violence as \u201ccommitments that place bodies on the line.\u201d The state only upholds its alleged order with a willingness to commit violence against its civilians\u2014to lock them up. Of course, all this is done in the name of protecting citizens, supposedly (although a cursory exploration of past legal cases shows the courts\u2019 main priority has long been the protection of private property)…<\/p>\n

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State Violence Is The Norm Rewilding is the solution I\u2019ve been thinking a lot recently about centralisation as a violent force. In short: state violence. It\u2019s hard not to think about at the moment, given Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinian people, backed by America\u2019s imperialist agenda who, along with their British allies, have been dropping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[5062,31737,3484,32230,32231,1309,6554,862],"class_list":["post-67362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-centralisation","tag-civil-protest","tag-dissent","tag-planet-critical","tag-rachel-donald","tag-state","tag-state-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67363,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67362\/revisions\/67363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}