We're all going to die #2
Helpful news from the Department of Homeland Security today of a non-specific threat to the US mainland this summer. John Ashcroft has also chimed in with the news that the face of Al-Qaeda is changing; terrorists now move around with their families to avoid detection, and try to pass themselves off as European-looking.
While the US media follows the script and panics, Wall Street has been a bit more sanguine. The market's response to the threat of imminent doom has been:
1. a rally in companies providing security services and
2. slight peaks in companies providing surveillance cameras.
3. that's it.
The consumer policing business has never had it so good.
posted by Raj @ 4:05 PM
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2 Comments:
perhaps now would be a good time to look into a job as a rent-a-cop, or perhaps even a mall guard. there was a great special about mall cops on the Travel channel--I don't know why that channel in particular--that was basically framed as an episode of COPS. the big difference was that these ones had telescoping batons, which are convenient, but seem somewhat effeminate for would-be figures of state violence. i hear the mall fuzz make good money; plus, you get to become awfully fat. (note, that's fat, not to be confuse with "phat").
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there's definitely a future in being an agent of state repression. witness life in a community around a US border and you quickly see that homeland security is the new factory job (which has troubling implications for the working class, insofar as we can imagine that such a thing is a coherent entity).
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