Police terrorism
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:26 am
After the discussion of Incels charged with terrorism, now this:
"Yesterday I saw the term ‘police terrorism’ for the first time as a suggested replacement for ‘police brutality’ on grounds that that’s exactly what it is. Terrorism. Terrorism is defined as “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
The police, and the state as a whole, use violence to intimidate peaceful protestors and journalists documenting those abuses. This intimidation is in hopes that those speaking about about injustice lose faith and willpower and give up, returning to a state of subservience and silence upon oppression.
I just read another article about something similar. It’s the last article I shared, if you wanna check it out. But it mentions how even through the language, labeling this violence as ‘police brutality’, we individualize this violence to isolated events, none relevant to another, making what’s happening as just little hiccups. While ‘police terrorism’ acknowledges the use of political and economic violence as a whole framework, all connected via the same oppressive ideologies and legislatures.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a firm believer the police, FBI, CIA, NSA, all five branches of the military, and the state as one big terrorist organization, terrorizing it’s own citizens and residents into accepting oppression and exporting that oppression via imperialism and capitalist greed.