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Citizenship plays two roles that fundamentally oppose one another. The first is facilitating equality, and promising a common set of rights and duties, regardless of identity. On the other hand, like in the case of Kashmir, it presents a legitimizing force for inequality itself. The full political, social, cultural, economic, and civic inclusion of individuals is what constitutes the heart of citizenship theory, and anything else diminishes its value. When tribal communities and caste minorities have been forcefully displaced from their ancestral homes by state actors to make way for roadways and bullet trains, can we really claim that Indian citizenship is a fair concept?

Hana Masood, 'Whose India is it Anyway?', Young Bharatiya

There’s been no rest on Sunday for this girl. I’ve been (rather enjoyably) researching the decline of state actors in war and the rise of non violent state actors in the contemporary era of war. It’s been surprisingly interesting!

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Assange is a publisher. He leaked absolutely nothing. The New York Times, as well as The Guardian, also published what Manning uncovered. Collateral Murder, among tens of thousands of pieces of evidence, should always be at the forefront of the whole discussion – this is about war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. So it’s no wonder the US Deep State will never forgive Manning and Assange, even as the New York Times, in another glaring instance of double standards, may get a pass. The drama will eventually need closure at the Eastern District of Virginia because the national security and intel apparatus has been working on this screenplay, full-time, for years. As CIA director, Mike Pompeo did cut to the chase: “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.” What amounts to a de facto declaration of war underlines how dangerous WikiLeaks actually is, just because it practiced investigative journalism.

Pepe Escobar, ‘You have the right to always remain silent‘, Asia Times

State Actors & Unemployment

Q1) If you are in receipt of state benefits and are living in council provided housing are you then a state actor?

Shortest answer: No. A person who receives state benefits and lives in council housing is not a state actor. Those two things don’t place someone in any category remotely close to 'state actor' in UK law or political theory.

What 'state actor' actually means

A state actor is someone who acts on behalf of the state or exercises state power. Examples include:

Police officers

Civil servants

Local authority officials

Government ministers

Agencies empowered to enforce law or policy

These people carry out state functions.

Why benefit recipients are not state actors

Receiving state support (money or housing) does not give someone:

authority

legal powers

decision‑making capacity

any role in implementing state policy

They are merely citizens receiving services and are not agents of the state.

Q2) Can they be used as state actors?

The shortest answer is still no — and also not in any practical sense. A person who receives state benefits and lives in council housing cannot be “used as a state actor” because they do not possess any of the qualities that make someone a state actor in UK law or political theory.

Q3) Not even unofficially

Still no — not even unofficially. And this is one of those cases where the intuition people sometimes have (“the state supports you, so maybe it can use you”) doesn’t match how power actually works in the UK.

The key distinction

Being supported by the state does not create being used by the state.

Being dependent on the state does not create being instrumental to the state.

Being housed by the state does not create being empowered by the state.

so why not try giving it a rest? stop hyper-vigilantly pissing yourself and your surroundings off. it isn't so difficult to do. you simply recognise and decide to teach yourself a process of relaxation.

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Systemic State Actors

Q) Can torturing and abducting people you happen to be living in the neighbourhood of be considered a crime?

🧩 Challenges in practice

Entrenched power: If misconduct is systemic, local remedies may be compromised.

Documentation: Gathering evidence over time is crucial - patterns of abuse must be shown clearly.

Risk to individuals: Speaking out against authorities can be dangerous, which is why collective action and external oversight matter.

🌍 Historical parallels

In many places, long-term abuses by state actors have eventually been confronted through truth commissions, public inquiries, or international intervention.

The language often shifts from 'crime' to state crime or institutional abuse, which requires broader remedies than punishing individuals.

So, when authorities themselves perpetuate harm, the path forward usually involves independent investigation, legal challenge, and international oversight, alongside community resilience and documentation.

Police, ministries, military branches, intelligence services, and regulatory bodies are all organs of the state. When they act, they do so on behalf of the state. I repeat, ‘they do so on behalf of the state’.

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