"If we want to wipe out torture, and not merely limit it or force it into invisibility, we must address its root causes. We must frustrate the US government’s global ambitions, pit ourselves against the interests it serves, and disassemble the institutions that implement its program. We must seek to radically reduce - ideally, to eliminate - the state’s ability to launch aggressive wars, to spy on the populace, to incarcerate, to keep dossiers, to patrol. It is, in short, necessary that we radically transform the institutions of political power, that we smash the state and break down the mechanisms of coercion so that they operate at a scale directly controllable by local communities."