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“This is not about peace, this is not about protecting people, this is about power and control. These extralegal actions were not undertaken to keep citizens safe: indeed, they manifestly do the opposite. No, the goal is submission. The goal is obedience. So what if a few streets are blocked for a few extra hours? There's a curfew in effect, there's no traffic anyway. So what if there are people in the park after hours? So what if people break a curfew that was imposed only minutes before they started enforcing it? Cite people. Arrest people. Those are the consequences we are prepared to accept in the name of a higher good. But violent attacks? There is never an excuse for the police to attack anyone, ever.
I can't help but draw a connection to the day-to-day lives of our children in our schools, how we attempt to control them with rules that adults have imposed upon them. We say "it's for their own good," but I've learned to doubt anyone who uses this argument because most of the time the opposite is true. We compel them to sit quietly in their chairs. We compel them to think about what we determine they must think about, no matter how dull and irrelevant. We compel them to march in lines, to color within the lines, to stay behind the lines. They can't in many cases even use the toilet without our permission. None of this is for the children's own good. Children, as citizens, should be free to move, to speak, and to pursue their passions. Children should decide for themselves where the lines are. Children should be permitted to listen to their own bodies about such basic things as using the toilet. It's our job to teach them, not to control them. No, their obedience is required for no reason other than this anti-democratic urge for those with power to compel submission.”