Naysmith reflects on:
"...the outlawing of the Brotherhood..." (p. 59)
- but we did not know that the Brotherhood had been outlawed, did we? The Brotherhood is a secret, its elusive, identical Un-men a mystery to their enemies. Does "...the outlawing..." mean just that they operate outside the law?
When Naysmith unmasks to the drugged Samsey, the latter exclaims:
"'Donner - but you're dead. We killed you in Chicago. You died, you're dead." (p. 61)
Thus, Naysmith confirms Donner's suspected death. Then he fakes Samsey's suicide, morally justifying this as an act of war. But is there a right and a wrong side in this war?
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Kaor, Paul!
Both sides seem to be behaving illegally here. Or should this struggle be thought of as an underground civil war? But a RECOGNIZED civil war has formal armies in uniform answering to a chain of command which in turn obeys an at least self avowed gov't claiming to rule a state.
A struggle between rival terrorists might be a better description. Which makes both sides deserving of condemnation.
Ad astra! Sean
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