Image Source: Google Books Margarita Drago (137)

In order to state it more simply, I will put down my eternal mask of civility and patience for one moment. It has never done much good anyway. If you’re a delicate soul, you may want to skip past this page.

The ego that it takes to think you can control, extort, and threaten your enemy while simultaneously promoting them through your own ranks until they are a higher level than you. Where the fuck does that come from? How much LSD did you take? Did you take it because the media arm told you that their targets were taking it while hand-making bombs in trendy and dingy dark-lit rooms? Why did you believe that about us? Did you never even know us? Were we just there to add to your group photos and inflate your egos on your way to the shops to get a knock-off Prada bag before you let them drag us off the streets? We were the intellectual professionals among you who were keeping you healthy, keeping the infrastructure functioning, and keeping you from eating your own children. Or we were, until you decided to capture and sell us on the military slave market in exchange for half a moment of temporary bullshit safety and an adrenaline rush.

We weren’t on the government acid. You were.

We were the ones keeping you from doing this dumb shit. And you made us the ones who can end it all. How wise is that? Did you honestly think we’d just adapt? Did you think we’d become mindless slaves with the intellect to do all your thinking for you? That you could somehow harness our abilities for yourself if you put us in rudimentary shackles in the same room with the weapons that can kill you? Seriously? Do you think at all?

Alright, I’ll go back to being polite and mostly diplomatic. I just hope that you finally catch on before the opportunistic infections catch up.

Supplementary Sources

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Image Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (129)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Image Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (130)

US Congress
US Congress

Image Source: p. 2180, U.S. Congress via Google Books (131)

Yale Library
Yale Library
State records
State records

Image Source: Personal File, State of Connecticut Department of Children and Youth (133)Services

Fragmentos de la Memoria
Fragmentos de la Memoria

Image Source: Google Books Margarita Drago (134)

Fragmentos de la Memoria
Fragmentos de la Memoria

Image Source: Google Books Margarita Drago (135)

Fragmentos de la Memoria
Fragmentos de la Memoria

Image Source: Google Books Margarita Drago (136)

Fragmentos de la Memoria
Fragmentos de la Memoria
National Security Archive
National Security Archive

Image Source: National Security Archive (138)

National Security Archive
National Security Archive

Image Source: National Security Archive (139)

National Security Archive
National Security Archive

Image Source: National Security Archive (140)

National Archives
National Archives
FBI
FBI

Image: Black Panther Party Documents (142)

Image Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Excel
Excel

Image: Partial List of Agencies Contacted in Argentina for the Right to Regain Identity (143)

Image Source: Author’s Personal Documents

CELS
CELS

Image Source: CELS Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (144)


“The coordinated repression passed through different phases:

-In the first, a centralized database was created on guerrilla movements, left-wing parties and groups, trade unionists, religious groups, liberal politicians, and supposed enemies of the authoritarian regimes involved in the operation.

-In the second, people considered political “enemies” at the regional level were identified and attacked.

-In the third and final phase, operations were carried out to track down and eliminate persons located in other countries in the Americas and Europe.”

Text Source: CELS Centro de Estudios Legales y Social

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