As an anarchist, I often hear questions about how, exactly, we would stay safe in a world full of rapists and murderers without the state’s protective monopoly over violence.
So I often have to remind people that not only does the state often decline to protect people facing harm…
…but also explicitly punishes people who do try to defend themselves from abusers:
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence
Another example
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/iowa-teen-who-killed-her-rapist-ordered-to-pay-150000-to-mans-family
An Iowa court sentenced a teenage victim of sex trafficking to five years probation and ordered her to pay $150,000 to her abuser’s family. The case is underscoring a serious issue of justice where hundreds of victims of sexual abuse and trafficking have faced similar legal consequences. Human trafficking survivor and criminal justice reform advocate Cyntoia Brown-Long joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.
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Hannu
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