The whole point of this is to jam it down the throats of the courts and the nation that this “mistake” was intentional.
The goal is to establish acceptance of an America where the regime can arrest and disappear anybody for any reason -- or for no reason at all; and if offered, the more preposterous the better, simply to demonstrate that …
The whole point of this is to jam it down the throats of the courts and the nation that this “mistake” was intentional.
The goal is to establish acceptance of an America where the regime can arrest and disappear anybody for any reason -- or for no reason at all; and if offered, the more preposterous the better, simply to demonstrate that reason, law, and justice don't matter. The purpose is to show by arbitrary act that action will be arbitrary. What counts is merely will and power.
Most importantly: when the regime acts, it must do so with implacable ruthlessness. The point of acknowledging the “mistake” is to create an opportunity for cruelly refusing to reverse it. The grotesquery of the injustice is the message.
The target audience is all of us, but particularly any potentially weak sisters on the Republican side. Acquiescence is a mandatory ritual rite of moral self-defilement, another compromise with the indefensible to defenestrate the soul. And little by little, even those who commenced their careers with aspiration to sincere public service excuse one disgrace after another; until one day they find themselves they partners with, and gradually even becoming, death camp guards. Which transformation is of course what the regime intends. Because finishing the work of national subjugation requires a sufficiency of death camp guards.
The whole point of this is to jam it down the throats of the courts and the nation that this “mistake” was intentional.
The goal is to establish acceptance of an America where the regime can arrest and disappear anybody for any reason -- or for no reason at all; and if offered, the more preposterous the better, simply to demonstrate that reason, law, and justice don't matter. The purpose is to show by arbitrary act that action will be arbitrary. What counts is merely will and power.
Most importantly: when the regime acts, it must do so with implacable ruthlessness. The point of acknowledging the “mistake” is to create an opportunity for cruelly refusing to reverse it. The grotesquery of the injustice is the message.
The target audience is all of us, but particularly any potentially weak sisters on the Republican side. Acquiescence is a mandatory ritual rite of moral self-defilement, another compromise with the indefensible to defenestrate the soul. And little by little, even those who commenced their careers with aspiration to sincere public service excuse one disgrace after another; until one day they find themselves they partners with, and gradually even becoming, death camp guards. Which transformation is of course what the regime intends. Because finishing the work of national subjugation requires a sufficiency of death camp guards.