Und auch deshalb ist die Digitalisierung, die früher oder später unweigerlich auf eine Post-Privacy-Gesellschaft herausläuft, in erster Linie eine Dystopie:
"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping. "
Google und Facebook/Meta geben Nutzer:innendaten an die US-amerikanische Polizei weiter, damit diese Menschen verfolgen kann, die Informationen zu Abtreibungen suchen.
Und das ist nur ein Beispiel. Morgen kann schon illegal sein, was heute noch legal ist und etwaige Datenschutzgesetze können auch in Europa gelockert werden, während die Überwachungsinfrastruktur, Digitalzwänge/Abhängigkeiten und der Zugriff auf Gesundheitsdaten immer invasiver werden.
Looks like the #AntiMonarchist demonstrators were subject to a classic bait & switch operation today - they were reassured through detailed meetings with the #Police, led to believe there was a way that they could exercise their right to protest, only then to be arrested when they did... so much for #democracy - another step down a road we're constantly told is merely scaremongering.... its almost entrapment
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
(a thread of threads, quotes, and links)
This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done to us, and what has been taken from us.
By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even plenty of people who swear by capitalism and identify as "capitalist" yet have no capital of their own and no serious hope of ever having any worth speaking of. In other words almost everyone except for the very few who have had the power to exploit us and shape our lives to serve their agenda. We're going to examine institutions and concepts that have deeply altered our world at all levels, both our external and internal realities.
By "here" we are talking about climate crisis and myriad other environmental catastrophes resulting from hyper-excessive extraction, consumption and waste; a world of rampant inequality and exploitation, hunger and starvation; a world of fences, walls, tollbooths, prisons, police, bullshit jobs and criminalized poverty; a world overrun with cars and preventable diseases; a world of vanishing biodiversity and blooming fascism; a world where "democracy" results in being led by some of the worst of humanity; a world ruled by an imaginary but all-powerful and single-minded god: Capital.
Our inspiration and structural framework for this survey is this quote from "The Prehistory of Private Property", an important work from political philosopher Karl Widerquist and anthropologist Grant S. McCall:
"After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned."
I find it both hilarious & shitty that the only question any #Saanich councillor had when seeing my multiple vids of their #antimasker#police was - How many people have seen these videos?
That confirms for me, my family & friends here that their council doesn't give a shit about their cops violating our #HumanRights but they're concerned about #BadPR 👎
A lot of people would probably say that we “need” some sort of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). In the US, the DMV manages the critical process of licensing people to operate motor vehicles on American roadways.
Considering that there are nearly 300 million cars and over 4 million miles of road, it’s very important that we have some kind of minimum standard of skill and ability to keep all those people safe as they hurtle their multi-ton boxes of metal, plastic, and glass at high rates of speed in very close proximity to each other and people walking or cycling.
Even with the DMV managing this process, 46,000 Americans still die each year from traffic collisions. So you can only imagine how bad it would be if there were no DMV!
Now let’s imagine that we were to discover that, in addition to licensing drivers, employees of the DMV were, in their official capacity, routinely killing people and stealing millions of dollars from them each year. Let’s imagine we discovered one DMV was rife with gangs that commit serial murder and another had set up a torture chamber where DMV employers spent years torturing DMV patrons.
> The lawsuit details cases in the county where law enforcement was sent to #MentalHealth emergencies, resulting in trauma or arrests for people in crisis
The Chinese embassy has been forced to close several unofficial police stations operating in the UK after a government investigation into their “unacceptable”
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The #Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.
Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let #murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.
Metz : Un #policier qui frappait sa femme et ses enfants relaxé en appel
"Pour la cour, il s’agit seulement d’un « grave et sérieux conflit de l’exercice de l’autorité parentale »"
On parle d'étranglements, coups et brimades envers les enfants et de viols envers l'ex-épouse.
"« C’est un très mauvais message qu’envoie la justice française pour décourager les femmes de policiers et leurs enfants à porter plainte. Ça dit aux autres : n’essayez même pas ! »"
A Chicago #Cop Is Accused of Lying Under Oath 44 Times. Now #Prosecutors Are Dropping Cases That Relied on His Testimony.
Former #Chicago officer Jeffrey Kriv faces charges for #perjury and #forgery after getting out of dozens of #traffic violations by claiming his girlfriend had stolen his car.
Now, cases that stem from #arrests Kriv made are in jeopardy.
New update: Prosecutors refused to drop charges against 11-year-old #Brownsville boy who was put in #solitary confinement, may actually be bringing MORE charges against him.
#police
« les jeunes hommes perçus comme noirs ou arabes ont une probabilité vingt fois plus élevée que l’ensemble de la population d’être contrôlés par la police. »
Testé sur le terrain.
Voilà.
La police est raciste.
Ce ne sont pas juste des cas isolés.
Pour tous ceux qui réfléchissent aux violences policières et aux structures racistes dans lesquelles elles s'inscrivent..
(et considèrent donc que les meurtres et bastonnades perpétrés par la police ne sont absolument pas des "cas isolés", des "exceptions", des "dérives malheureuses", qu'il s'agirait de réguler à coup de petites réformes ou d'aménagements "à la marge"),
je vous conseille de lire, si ce n'est déjà fait, les travaux de Jared Sexton et Steve Martinot, et, en guise d'introduction, sur ce sujet précisément, un article publié en 2003 dans
Social Identities
Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
Volume 9, intitulé "THE AVANT-GARDE OF
WHITE SUPREMACY", et repris dans le fascinant et très radical volume "Afropessimism" qu'on trouvera ici (pdf en libre accès) :
(par ailleurs ce volume est passionnant, dérangeant, décapant. - particulièrement quand on est un lecteur blanc européen. On y trouve une collection de textes du radical Frank B. Wilderson, III, de Jared Sexton, Steve Martinot, de la grande féministe noire Hortense J. Spillers, et d'une de mes autrices préférées du moment, Saidiya Hartman, dont le dernier livre, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, me hante littéralement - le genre de livre qu'on lit très doucement, très lentement, pour bien s'en imprégner, en espérant favoriser de la sorte un bouleversement profond, à la hauteur du propos - que ça chamboule l'intimité - les émotions, la pensée.
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#Police Resistance and #Politics Undercut the Authority of Prosecutors Trying to Reform the Justice System
After major American cities began electing prosecutors who campaigned on the promise of systemic reform, law enforcement unions labeled these DAs as soft on #crime while lawmakers made legal and legislative efforts to remove them from office.
Following the effective strike by #firearms officers in the Metropolitan #Police over one of their colleagues being chased with the murder of #ChrisKaba, we have a situation where the #army is 'supporting' the police in the counter-terrorism activities.
So, the firearms officers think they are above the law, the #Tories seeming interest in service level requirements doesn't seem to apply to armed officers, and we now have the army on the streets.
This reminds us that #policing - in #SettlerColonial societies like Canada - has always been a central force for dispossession, displacement & containment.
Police called to yoga class mistaken for ‘mass killing’ (www.theguardian.com)
A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor
UK orders China to close secret police stations in Britain (www.thetimes.co.uk)
The Chinese embassy has been forced to close several unofficial police stations operating in the UK after a government investigation into their “unacceptable”