Reply #9: I like Peter Dale Scott's term "deep politics"

[Minstrel Boy]

to explain the criminalization of the state. What we've witnessed are not sequential, discreet conspiracies. They aren't even, in the popular sense, conspiracies at all. Because the conspiratorial behaviour is no longer an aberration in the system; it has become the system.

It's no coincidence that many of the same names reappear in America's shadow history, one decade to the next. That the name Bush turns up in damn near every one would be funny, but for all the dead people.

Great post, by the way.