TAZ Has Ugly, Retarded Cousin

[tyrannosaurus vex]

The Temporary Totalitarian Zone is the Machine's answer to the Temporary Autonomous Zone. The idea is that within a matter of hours, an entire city can go from normal Monday afternoon to crawling with heavily armed paramilitary police, and hours after that, they disappear into the ether as quickly as they swarmed in. Designed to reinforce the false notion that the Police really can be everywhere at once, the TTZ is a system of roving police states capable of springing up anywhere at almost a moment's notice in order to assist the powers that be in whatever devious plot they have at a given moment.

In a "post-9/11 world", as we are all constantly reminded we are living in, the vast majority of rubes living out there in la-la land actually welcome the TTZ as it storms down Main Street, feeling extra safe from Terrorists, but never quite catching on to the fact that all it takes is one terse command from the lips of some fat asshole in Washington, and all those guns can be aiming directly at the heads of "innocent" civilians.

Of course, at that point, We the People would probably turn ourselves in for being Terrorists without even knowing we were up to no good.

Anyway, being that the TTZ is a tool for totalitarian schmucks, it is not going to stop here. No, expect the TTZs to increase in duration and frequency until it reaches a point where the Police really are everywhere at once.

[East Coast Hustle]

I like this.

well, actually I don't, but it makes me think.

[Cain]

I like this.  In fact, it kind of reminds me of how Blackwater operates.  Blackwater doesn't actually have a standing army, it has a bunch of guys on its records, who it contracts out to for individual jobs.  Instead of these guys being a "paramilitary force", they are almost ephemeral, appearing and disappearing as needed.  It makes them cheap, flexible, deniable and exceptionally dangerous.

Another example of everything having a use when the right (wrong) minds get a hold of it.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I like this.  In fact, it kind of reminds me of how Blackwater operates.  Blackwater doesn't actually have a standing army, it has a bunch of guys on its records, who it contracts out to for individual jobs.  Instead of these guys being a "paramilitary force", they are almost ephemeral, appearing and disappearing as needed.  It makes them cheap, flexible, deniable and exceptionally dangerous.

Another example of everything having a use when the right (wrong) minds get a hold of it.

We should start our own ephemeral paramilitary force, except the purpose will be to hijack sound systems in public areas that play too much shitty music. We'll be heroes.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Nine out of 10 nuts!

[Cramulus]

I'm picturing the Sacred Chao, but with a TAZ on one size and a TTZ on the other. Whatever that looks like.

Mittens for you, Vex.