At 05:28 PM 16/08/2007, you wrote:
>since a large camp believes that noir is about doom,
or at the very least, an
>extremely stacked deck, governments' permission, in
fact their very way of
>going about their business is a primary contributor
to noir. after all, what
>does the phrase "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
refer to? it's simply
>the way of the world
That's somewhat different. The law, as written, is to be
enforced within the political jurisdiction of the lawmakers,
including Chinatown in this particular instance. That the
cops, and others, do not go into Chinatown to enforce the law
in the same way that to do in other communities because they
consider it an incomprehensible place, is a corruption of the
law itself (and a metaphor too, of course.) But with spying
there is no law to prohibit someone from this activity
outside the lawmakers' jurisdiction. Quite the contrary. It
is not a case of legal corruption.
Don't we spy on other countries to help make them better
places to live, and to provide security at home? How can this
be dark and sinister, or doomed?
I think. Kerry
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