Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason

Evidence

The territory of the targeted population is reduced to a state of perpetual siege through closure and curfews, encirclement and sanctions, invasion and repression. Walls are erected, barriers go up, gates are locked, roads blocked, access denied. All critical opposition, and any cross-societal solidarity, is rendered unpatriotic, their “perpetrators” considered traitorous and treacherous, subject to high crimes of treason and incarcerable without trial. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 677

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 105; Threat-hardened nationalist forces punished accommodation of the out-group. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 128; Nationalists weaponize LTTE atrocities to frame accommodation as treason. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 235 (+6 more)