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[more...] 01:16 AM 12 comments July 19, 2002 Fear This is from a US government website. This is not a parody. Time to get the hell out of there, carlito folks. Things are beginning to get weird scary. [via boingboing] carlito 08:47 PM 4 comments July 18, 2002 Thought Food via Metafilter, some marvellously ironic TIPS-related info : Some food for thought about civilians as informers, about a carlito large number of informers... From the book "Republic of Fear, The Politics of Modern Iraq" by Kanan Makiya (originally published under the name Samir al-Khalil, a pseudonym): "Nothing fragments group solidarity and self-confidence like the gnawing suspicion of having an informer in your midst. Therefore, to the extent that the public polices itself - a function of the number of informers - it inevitably disintegrates as an entity in its own right, separated from those who rule over it. |
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