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1. Victim-blaming

2. Hedges is well aware of history. And of changing times. And of the present heavy hand of SV censors. Go read some of his books before you play him off like a simpleton.

First our prisons, then our military, and now silencing dissidents - the US likes to privatize its dirty work. Those private actors aren't held to the strict legal constraints created for government actors. This is what Americans call "efficiency."

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1. Yep. As you say - the guy is smart enough to know better.

2. I'm sure he is - this article comes off to me as a highly intelligent person ranting. I'm calling out that his appeal to precedent is, at best, weakly laid out in this article (and at worst it's dishonest). As I said, I agree with elements of the argument that he's making, but he's made the arguments poorly here.

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