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i find it difficult not to link this decision to the notion dear to the administration and its "war on terror" rhetoric of potential crime--you can be held if you are understood to have within you the possibility of committing x.
once there, you get into other problems of stretching (shall we say) probable cause into things like "driving while black"
within this general social/legal game, it is hard to fault people for pushing at the limits of the rules within which they operate. they just follow the logic of their situation (looped through ambient politics, of course)--so the problems do not lay with particular actions, but with the framework itself: in this case, the ridiculous "war on drugs"--and on this, i agree entirely with kadath, above.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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