and we will not discuss this like gentlemen
this is genocide, we are desensitized
we are the set aside setting our sights on the enterprise
we were never meant to find
this is America: one big happy prison
but we wrote our names on the walls
you thought it was graffiti, but it was a sign
to everyone looking, from those already inside
- Guante, "Welcome to the Border"
we the people
(clients, customers, or citizens?)
(from homeland security watch)
my response here reproduced,
hmmm, this is a really thought-provoking one….
“Citizen” is quite the ancient Roman term. Greek, too, but more importantly Roman because our government structure is based on the Republic, not the polis. The citizen has rights, most definitively the right to vote – the other rights are historically negotiated and vary from area and epoch.
“Client” is a management term. A client is both a customer and a boss.Complicated relationship. The proletariat does not deal (has not dealt) in clients and has (had) a customer and/or a boss, never both in the same person (until the advent of the “independent contractor”).
“Customer” is a market term, in both the abstract (“the market economy”) and concrete (the physical marketplace) sense. Producers seek customers in the first sense in order to convert goods into money and complete the circuit of capital accumulation. A customer in this sense is merely a link in a chain and a necessary evil in the process of making money. The retail worker handles customers in the second sense and may either be petit-bourgeoise or employed by one (wherein petit-bourgeoise means either small business owner or retail management of a corporation). Increased use of the term “customer” indicates an attempt at increased market penetration or market ideals, capitalism being a totalitarian and colonizing system.
So the debate illustrates, I think, a further shift towards the marketization of government, and works a double function of obscuring the military-industrial oppression of people in occupied territory, folks subjected to oppression, incarceration, and a deprivation of direct participation in their own environment. Thus:
What word best describes who to enlist in “efforts to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards”?
A: Praetorian fits, I think.
please forgive the use of convention
in language
a final word/2:
empire replicates.
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
this is genocide, we are desensitized
we are the set aside setting our sights on the enterprise
we were never meant to find
this is America: one big happy prison
but we wrote our names on the walls
you thought it was graffiti, but it was a sign
to everyone looking, from those already inside
- Guante, "Welcome to the Border"
we the people
(clients, customers, or citizens?)
(from homeland security watch)
my response here reproduced,
hmmm, this is a really thought-provoking one….
“Citizen” is quite the ancient Roman term. Greek, too, but more importantly Roman because our government structure is based on the Republic, not the polis. The citizen has rights, most definitively the right to vote – the other rights are historically negotiated and vary from area and epoch.
“Client” is a management term. A client is both a customer and a boss.Complicated relationship. The proletariat does not deal (has not dealt) in clients and has (had) a customer and/or a boss, never both in the same person (until the advent of the “independent contractor”).
“Customer” is a market term, in both the abstract (“the market economy”) and concrete (the physical marketplace) sense. Producers seek customers in the first sense in order to convert goods into money and complete the circuit of capital accumulation. A customer in this sense is merely a link in a chain and a necessary evil in the process of making money. The retail worker handles customers in the second sense and may either be petit-bourgeoise or employed by one (wherein petit-bourgeoise means either small business owner or retail management of a corporation). Increased use of the term “customer” indicates an attempt at increased market penetration or market ideals, capitalism being a totalitarian and colonizing system.
So the debate illustrates, I think, a further shift towards the marketization of government, and works a double function of obscuring the military-industrial oppression of people in occupied territory, folks subjected to oppression, incarceration, and a deprivation of direct participation in their own environment. Thus:
What word best describes who to enlist in “efforts to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards”?
A: Praetorian fits, I think.
please forgive the use of convention
in language
a final word/2:
empire replicates.
yours for the revolution
forbidden books
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