Space control plus witness removal enables unchecked violent intervention against suspects.
Evidence
The question “What is a place?” becomes a matter of life or death. Perhaps the time has come to remember that by geographically confining the licit exercise of violence, the fundamental legal aim was to circumscribe it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Handing a hostile witness the floor can seal a trap he cannot escape — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 2196; Weaponizing space requires suppressing independent witnesses to succeed — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 674; Invisible compartmentalization, not invisibility itself, makes crimes permissible (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it
#complicates(0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252