the totality of the circumstances

file this one
under actionable items

fig14a serving & protecting the shit out of you

no felony
no assault charge

so lets talk about
authorized use of force
because writing the law
& carrying out its letters
entirely different

"reasonable to kick a hypothetical suspect who was already on the ground"
"the short answer is yes"

oh good
no one wanted to hear the long
answer anyway probably too many
words

heres where it gets good

if a crowd has gathered
get the focal point of this crowd
faster the crowd will dissipate
risk of the suspect getting help from the crowd

dozens of potentially hostile onlookers

looks to me like theyre trying
to make an example

fig14b that nothing to see here bullshit

my untrained eye
counts five squad cars

you cannot bully a community
into compliance
any more than you can one man
not for long
not ethically

that might could be
laws nature
that cooperation
requires coercion
co-opt-ation
of our labor power
requires

brutalizing
its threat
its realization

certainly not saying
the guy is a saint
for beatin up his girlfriend
which he was probably doing
but two wrongs
as they say
dont make a right

& our laughably oxymoronic
justice system
just keeps heaping up
them wrongs

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exigency revealed

dorners not just mad
about getting fired & crazy

in a typically blind pro-cop
american media sort of way
they skirt around the fact he was fired
for ratting
on corruption

as much as you can avoid
corruption and racism
when talking about
the lapd

so bad
that when this happens
chief beck has to come on tv
say hell reopen the case

it takes this

we can take for granted
that dorner is insane yeah
that manifesto breaks down halfway

starts talking to tebow
shout outs to hillary clinton
like hes won the oscar
for best mass murderer

shit
hes got the worlds attention
he knows it
they always know it

fig9a we are naturally familiar with this concept

be easy to blame the media
but more accurate
to note how media & manifestation
of violent insanity
have this lewd public relationship

capitalism consumer capitalism
birthing its own monsters

imperialism too

veteran turned cop

in the militarized police

navy sharpshooter

eight times decorated

talks about values he learned

fig9b value added to a product by military labor

i am a walking exigent circumstance

meaning hes the thing

that cant be planned for
an antichrist rendered

through 21st c fabric

may or may not be so

while i write this theyre still

poking the remains of the compound

compound being the word

for cabin once hostages are taken

naturally

either he does outsmart them

going on undermining their cred

hurting more people

or

they do stop him

testament to how desperately

they need to save

face

irregardless

he's a loose

dangerous

cog

apocalyptic

look at the way the cops

shot at innocent people

barricaded a truck unrelated to the case

it looks bad

fig9c necessary on so many levels

it looks really bad

this would be a wakeup moment

an enlightenment

if we can tune out the news

and listen to our gut our instinct

we all knew

dorner was only a matter of time

hyping up the dramatic parts

leaving out the backstory

media has the gall to come at this

all surprisedlike

so most of us will stay in the trance

nobody saw this coming?

are you kidding?

this isnt the beginning

this isnt even the end

fig9d what is violence? whateven is mental health?

we dont have

collective cognitive framework

for whatevers going on

much less

whatever

comes next

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I am a walking exigent circumstance

deep
shit

lapd officer christopher dorners manifesto

you create your monsters
i suppose

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meditation re gun control

eclecticbreakfast once again hosts
a good meditation
re the worship
of the self vs the state

which to a reply is penned

there is of course no such thing
as the state
nothing you can point to
say there it is

there is a collection of very nice buildings
some
mostly old white male
people
engaged in a widely reported
ritualized charade
an immense labor structure
stamps bells & whistles
that command respect
lotta land & investments
financial legal &c

a devoted apparatus of force
backing it up

but at the end of the day
consensual adherence
to useful fiction
for capital

individuality
is a little more tangible
because of the body
the ego is notably more concrete
though it too
does not stand
up well to intense scrutiny

family is a hereditary arrangement
its story more immediate

community is just
family neighbors businesses

it is reactive
to value these things instead
of the state
because they predate
the state
it is progressive
to value these things instead
because they move us away
from the states
totalitizing

state monopoly on violence
it can sanction its own use
of force
individual family community
excluded from participating

question of trust
trust in god
becomes
trust in the state

from the framework
alternatives boil down
i only trust people of my community
blood is thicker than water
the only person who has my back is me

question of loss
of trust
look at the trust the state
loses in we the people
formerly constituents
CCTV
militarization of police
increased rules regulations
loss of common space

vicious circle

question of domination
along & within question of survival
any incarnation of the state
must dominate to survive
mubaraks al-assads withstanding
whatever it takes
other governments would do the same
i am the state

obsession can be fascistic - at bottom of the urge to clarify things is the impulse to dominate

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over the top and under the radar squeezing through your keyholes leaking through the cracks in your foundations

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.

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