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Colt Delta Elite (Someone mentioned that Colt reintroduced these and still sells them. That is correct, though the new version supposedly address some of the flaws and weaknesses in the original. I haven’t seen an original Delta compared to a newer Delta so I don’t know any exterior differences. Note that this one seems to have a magazine loaded with 10mm Black Talon ammo.)

Colt Delta Elite (Someone mentioned that Colt reintroduced these and still sells them. That is correct, though the new version supposedly address some of the flaws and weaknesses in the original. I haven’t seen an original Delta compared to a newer Delta so I don’t know any exterior differences. Note that this one seems to have a magazine loaded with 10mm Black Talon ammo.)

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What sort of legal innovation is the notion of indefinite detention?” asks Butler, as she contemplates the indefinite extension of sovereign power and legal jurisdiction in the United States post 9/11 (2004: 51). The legislative net that I have just described shows that indefinite detention is not a “legal innovation” that appeared with the Bush administration but has a history that reaches back to a space and place used as a laboratory for neo-colonialism at the outset of the imperial expansion of U.S. power after the Second World War: namely, Greece after the Truman Doctrine and under the Marshall Plan.* This legislative net produced a system that transformed inaccessible corners of Greece into a web of fenced and strictly disciplined spaces of existence. In the early years of the twentieth century, the only securely inaccessible places were the thousands of islands strewn throughout the Greek seas.

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Neni Panourgiá, “Sunset; 1963–2008: History, Microhistory, Metahistory, Ethnography” in Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

* Greece marks the beginning of the cold war. As Michael McClintock notes, quoting Lt. Col. Robert Selton of the U.S. Army, the Greek Civil War constitutes “the formal declaration of the cold war” between the “Free World… and the forces of communism” (McClintock 1992: 11). It was on the occasion of the beginning of the civil war in Greece that President Truman articulated his famous (or infamous) doctrine about the necessity for intervention on behalf of other countries to prevent infiltration by ideologies originating elsewhere. As McClintock notes, as of November 1961, starting with an initial allotment in 1947 of $400 million through the Marshall Plan, Greece was granted $3.4 billion for postwar reconstruction, out of which only $1.2 billion went to economic aid. The rest was used for military aid and defense support, including the establishment and maintenance of the concentration camps and the containment of Communism. (See Selton 1966: 68; McClintock 1992: 466n.31.) James Becket notes about the Truman Doctrine that “Greece was the first country of the Old World to experience the full impact of Pax Americana. Aid and advisors of every kind arrived: agronomists, soldiers, teachers, spies, businessmen, diplomats” (Becket 1970: 12). For an incisive analysis of the beginnings of the cold war in reference to the civil war, see Gerolymatos 2004.

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