Borders shelter fugitives, so hunter-states claim a right to pursue across them.

Evidence

In order to elude its pursuers, the prey endeavors to render itself undetectable or inaccessible. Now, inaccessibility is a matter not simply of the topography of the landscape—bushy heaths or deep crevices—but also of the asperities of political geography. As the theorists of manhunting remind us, “borders are among the greatest allies” that a fugitive can have. Out in the countryside, English common law used to authorize “the hunting of ravenous prey, such as badgers and foxes, in another man’s land, because destroying such creatures is said to be profitable to the Public.” That is the kind of right that the United States today would like to claim in the case of human prey worldwide. As Paul Wolfowitz has put it, we need “to deny them sanctuaries.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Wolfowitz’s ‘deny them sanctuaries’ connects to the thesis reading’s concern with citizen enlistment in the moral obligation to kill. — connects to: Hunt-states replace conquest rights with pursuit rights that void territorial sovereignty. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 232

Related

• Hunt-states replace conquest rights with pursuit rights that void territorial sovereignty. (similarity 0.83)