The immigration crisis of summer 2014 made national news once more in February of 2015 when a federal judge granted an injunction on behalf of Central American mothers and children which ordered a stoppage to the Obama administration’s policy of detaining women and children refugees as a method of deterrence. The Department of Homeland Security…
While pre-emptive states of emergency mobilize a familiar discursive arsenal of state violence, they are at the same time a tacit admission of the State that the ‘normal’ operations of law and order are no longer legitimate. Commenting on the investigation into the police killing of Luis Rodriguez in Moore, OK in February 2014, an…
At worst, the 2011 ruling in Waller v City of New York makes the First Amendment rights of public protest subject to the ‘police power’ of repressive, legislative and judicial power which collectively governs in the name of ‘security’.Waller v City of New York, 2011 At approximately 1:00 am on the morning of November 15,…