The recent images of peaceful protesters being bundled into police trucks, young men being carried to safety with gunshot wounds, goons attacking peaceful protestors under the watch of armed officers, blood and more blood on the streets, online posters of disappeared youth and youthful protestors in the dock on terrorism charges are not just distressing, they are a warning. A warning that the State may be slipping once again into the dangerous comfort of suppressing dissent with brute force and calling it security. A dangerous pattern is hardening into State practice. With each wave of protest, the response grows more…