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In Nanterre - an university in the north western suburbs of Paris, which used to be a hotbed of leftism, and where the events of May 1968 were started -, when the cops came to - quite violently - oust the occupying students out, other groups of students cheered along the beating by shouting, "Allez les Bleus".
The idea that violence is the norm of law enforcment, that negotiation is an absurdity, that democracy means winner takes all, is getting more and more prevalent - cheered on, even. Another step to an authoritarian society is taken.
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Private polices - from supermarket guard to mercenaries in Iraq, and now, "deputies" militias raised from the population. An important part of the concept of the panopticon is that one must never know when he is being watched. Blurring the line between law enforcment and snitches, that's a large part of this program, I'd bet. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
