It is clear that security requires some level of trust between officers of the peace and the people in the streets, especially when their relation is of a political nature, as in the protests surrounding the meeting of the G20 in Toronto, Canada.
This was a shameful moment in our history, and a reminder of the apparent fragility of a trust between people and state, within the institutional framework of peace internationally understood.
Those big formations begin at street level, in the effects that the security state has on actual bodies; here those masses of people in the streets of Toronto.
Oh Canada indeed! The inflection of meaning in an exclamation can easily be turned on its head, much as every national history and political accusation can be also. It is a crtical pre-condition of peace that every stupid <peace is violence> aphorism be earnestly and critically unpacked, in order that a reason be given for social order, rather than having that project bullied along by baton, tear gas and rubber bullets.
