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i *knew* the resident alien status of mr. cho would come up refigured in terms of some rightwing xenophobia. it follows in a straight line from the ongoing construction of him as someone Other who was lurking about within the Us. it almost seemed unnecessary that the stories be written which appeared yesterday describing him as an "eccentric loner"---that's right folks, not to worry, the guy was a cliche.
as more information emerges, he gets positioned more and more clearly in this dubious space of the Outsider Amongst Us.
next step would be a raising of the collective hysterometer to orange of some such because he would have been entirely blurred into the fiction of the "terrorist" as a kind of one-man sleeper cell.
it is ridiculous.
get a fucking grip, folks.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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