Secession – you can’t see it, you can’t smell it, you can’t touch it. But when it’s there, strange stuff happens: Huge numbers of police in combat gear appear out of nowhere, driving camouflaged armored vehicles, making you wonder where all the equipment is coming from, sirens howl, shrill bullhorns scream commands, whole streets, especially around school buildings, are sealed off, tear gas and rubber bullets are shot. Only there\u2019s no opponent there at all. Eerie.<\/p>\n
Due to there being no opponents, the combat troops come down hard on peaceful people who are congregating at these school buildings for a harmless vote, yell at them, drag them away and beat them up. And this despite the fact that the object of the vote is anything but aggressive or harmful. Moreover, it is impossible to avoid the eerie impression that the more the voters withdraw, the harder the police strike out; the further the voters move away, the more forcefully they draw the police after them; and the police become most brutal when the people want only one thing, namely to be left alone. When, that is to say, they behave in such a way that they can\u2019t possibly collide with the armed troops \u2013 or only if these troops and their commanders claim a \u2018right\u2019 not to leave the people alone, to disturb them, to oppress them, to subjugate them and to impose their will on them.<\/p>\n
Now, of course, as every child knows, no one has the right to disturb, harass, subjugate or impose their will on others. Which is why the violent police and their state employers invent mysterious reasons why people who want to be left alone are in the wrong, and why they, who want to subjugate them, are in the right. It\u2019s not by chance that the word \u2018law\u2019 or \u2018rights\u2019 comes up repeatedly in these arguments. For example, it\u2019s said that the…<\/p>\n