The drug war and the war on terror show us there isn't really such a thing as a border anymore, or at least one the US empire respects.
@kade_ellis Bollocks. Think of all the contractors getting rich deporting brown people back over the border.
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@emptywheel sure. but think of all the ways it doesn't respect the border. money, arms, drugs, law -
@kade_ellis Sure. That's power asymmetry, though, it is not unique to the border. -
@emptywheel No but stuff like the NDAA literally brings the war home, in a way anti-Vietnam war hippies couldn't have imagined. -
@kade_ellis Not true! They were explicitly called terrorists. This just prepares the legal ground to return to where we were. -
@emptywheel I didn't know there was a law that allowed the state to imprison them without charge or trial, indefinitely. -
@kade_ellis Tell that to Fred Hampton. He got the Awlaki treatment. -
@emptywheel amen. but where's the legal memo that authorized his execution?
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@emptywheel that's just part of the global war for capital. and a highly profitable part, at that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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