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[PEN-L:4116] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: secret societies and the origins ofcapitalist private property


Sam Pawlett wrote:

>
> Doesn't the word "covert" imply that these actions are or are supposed
> to be secret? Why not call them overt operations?

Sam, are you serious in this question or are you just wisecracking? If
you are serious, then you need to study politics more thoroughly. I'll
give just one of a hundred answers to your question (all of which we
ought to carry tacitly in our bones almost if we want to engage in
leftist politics). If they were called Overt Operations then the
Bloomington Pantagraph, the Chicago Tribune, and perhaps even
the WSJ would have to admit that they exist. The political effect
of the openness of open secrets is more or less zilch.

Carrol
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