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This is a private university crushing student protests.
With police, an apparatus of the state.
You have to work harder to come to that conclusion than just going “hey isn’t the police employed by the government?”
This is a corporatocracy.
Its just capitalism in a terminal stage
The word you’re looking for is “Plutocracy,” and it has a long history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
Yeah, but the relationship isn’t simply one way.
The apparatus of the state often includes corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, or the IMF/World Bank, or Elbit Systems, or Blackwater, or the Pinkertons.
The state also enshrines the rights of corporations and maintains the capitalistic and/or colonialistic relationships corporations have with people, and protects them from everyone else.
In return, the govt gets a small amount of taxes, and a surprisingly high degree of legitimacy if the line goes up.
I didn't know that the university had control over the NY police force.
They don't. That's why they request police resources.
So you know and understand that the police force is controlled by the government, but still fail to connect the dots between that fact and them crushing the protests?
And why would the police comply with such a ridiculous request when they have more important things to do?
-- Farrell Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion
For the same reason they will comply with such request from any private party? Try to pitch a couple of tents on your neighbor's front lawn with your friends to see if the police doesn't get you moving when they get called.
Like they do with school shootings.
Now, now, this isn’t Texas.
Or like they do with right wing thugs, like the ones that attacked protestors at UCLA.
They tear gassed students at my old public university. The way they're being treated is ridiculous and completely out of line with previous protests.
There's a fucking sniper at my old university. On the roof of the student union building where my friends and I used to go smoke weed. That's a head trip.
Cool. Now do universities like UCLA and IU.
Both universities are gonna have a real fun time explaining themselves in court, because I guarantee they'll see lawsuits over this. Private universities get a lot of leeway over what they allow, but public universities are bound by the First Amendment. Any who are violating the protestors rights are gonna get fucked six ways to Sunday.