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well, in some basic ways this metastasis of "security" companies that no-one has track of and no-one can account for in terms of costs and/or contracts and is accountable to no-one and which appears to be involved in almost nothing of any importance in terms of stopping or preventing "terrorism" but which is obvious geared toward watching someone somewhere all justified under the extra-legal "requirements" of this conservative fiction of a "War on Terror" is a perfect example of what conservative policy logic results in. because they have a surreal, ahistorical factually wrong staging of what the state is---they think is a source of irrationality rather than an extension of public control (however indirect)---which is simply a function of most conservatives not understanding the first thing about the social-democratic model of the state except that they oppose it (not worth going into this).
what conservatives want is no fucking accountability for surveillance and other quasi-military operations so long as there's a reasonable hope that these operations would not be directed at them. and why would they be, given that it's conservatives who provide patronage to this entire system, conservatives who endorse its rationale.
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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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