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Is this what a police state looks like?
Dobbin, Murray
http://murraydobbin.ca/2010/06/29/is-this-what-a-police-state-looks-like/Date Written: 2010-06-29 Year Published: 2010 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11959 The corporate security state is not static - it will keep filling more and more space to the extent that they are allowed to by civil society. The police actions in Toronto are one of those key moments, one that we will look back on as a time when the authoritarian governments we now endure tested our resolve. They know exactly what they are doing. There was no spontaneous 'over-reaction.' There were no cops 'out of control' - the obvious fact is they were always in control. The decision to allow the Black Bloc to do its destructive work without any intervention at all was strategic. They were assisted in their work by the Black Bloc, some of them agents provocatuers, all of them enemies of social change. Subject Headings |