On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:18:09PM +1100, Rory Dufficy wrote:
> it's so disconnected from reality as to be helpful in reminding us
> that the opinions reproduced in the logs are those of arrogant
> legatees of empire and their fawning foreign counterparts and that
> these opinions are not uncomplicatedly 'insider' opinions,
> buttressed with clandestine knowledge, but instead (or as well)
> reproduce the kinds of phatic speech engaged in by bureaucrats who
> imagine themselves a ruling elite: the presumptively-big-britched,
> ignorant delusions of head servants.
If you want secrets that show something about power, you want to hear from the people who arrange the hit squads - not the people who arrange the cocktail parties.