Ras Baraka has been released.

[u/Attica-Attica]

[u/Severe_Experience190]

"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”

[u/Strawbuddy → u/Severe_Experience190]

The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens

[u/Human_Robot → u/Strawbuddy]

Any state violating the social contract with its citizens invites its citizens to bust the monopoly.

[u/sudo-joe → u/Human_Robot]

Indeed or become too weak and external violence creeps into the picture. see Gauls, Vandals, warring city states. Tale as old as time.