As the pillars or the specialists, the soldiers and the policemen are responsible for saving the regime, the state and the ruling elite. This act of saving involves the systematic use of sheer, brutal violence against a civilian population to achieve a political goal: intimidating, controlling and dominating the population to ensure the state’s monopoly on violence. In other words, the state deploys its specialists wherever and whenever its writ is challenged or threatened. This is the logic of state terror – brutal quelling of trouble, disorder, dissent and disobedience through military
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