Would they behave as normal mortals - communicate, eat, play, move, communicate; again - then Nihon would not have amassed 400+ Billion of US bonds. Wakarimasen, Mqsan. Hai, Jay, dozo, Pratinum, VARY good. Me, just a reetr Gord.
on a more sombre note: Whenever it gets dark in Germany, one hears the rollerblinds thunder down. Same thing german politics: whenever something happens, we get another security package thundering down in front of our eyes. This time they remind one unconfortably of the swedish-model rollerblinds.
We'll ask ourselves some day, when we crossed the Rubicon. The answer could well be 14th of december 2001. The day, together with a cascade of security measures passed, marks the institution of a new type of state, a prevention state, a state that in its drive to minimize its security risks exposes its citizens to massive distrust and surveillance steps, which are not based on any concrete suspicion. Factually this step has put the past common law to sleep for good. Here's the essence of the prevention state: every citizen is a potential threat; so first the state must make sure that he, she, they actually do not constitute a threat - so they better be ready to let the appropriate procedures steamroller over them. It used to be different: we called it law-and-order state.
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