"The event [9/11] confirmed one of the fundamental theses of [my] book [Empire] i.e., the end of American insularity and the difference between telluric and maritime nations. The fact that New York could be bombed like London, Berlin, and Tokyo confirmed that the process of formation of the new global order was fully deployed."
--Antonio Negri
From Around India/South Seattle/Thurs March 6/3:15 pm: Officer Kruger, who was deployed to an Office Depot to investigate a "suspicious circumstance," wrote this report: "Item #1, Placed Into Evidence: Two ripped-up photographs of a nude woman sitting in a bathtub. Found by [a man and his brother]. The [brothers] gave the photographs to me after they had taped the pieces together.
"Reconstructed Incident: The brothers were walking in the parking lot of the Office Depot when they found the pieces of two ripped-up photographs. They taped the pieces together and they revealed a nude female sitting in a bathtub. They felt that the woman had a distressed look on her face. The woman appears to be from the region around India. Suspect: Unknown. Victim: Unknown."
A Bag of Biohazards/Capitol Hill/Fri Feb 7/ 8:25 pm: A security officer at Group Health hospital was making a check of the "South" building's "A" level when he noticed a suspicious white plastic bag on the lab check-in desk. In the white plastic grocery bag was a hand-written note reading, "Does this food contain poison? It's from the Noel House. If the [food does contain poison] please contact the FDA and let them know." The note was signed "Linda S." The security officer contacted the staff at Noel House who advised that they had never heard of "Linda S.," nor did they have a record of any such person staying at their shelter.
The reporting officer, Officer Turner, was dispatched to the hospital, and took possession of the white plastic grocery bag and food items. The bag was later disposed of in the SPD East Precinct "Bio Hazard Disposal."
Stop Me Before I Kill Some Arabs/Capitol Hill/Wed Feb 26/1:45-4:45 am: Officer Nelson writes: "I was dispatched to the 400 block of Broadway East to investigate a report of property damages. I contacted complainant who stated that sometime between 1:45 am and 4:45 am someone had stuck posters on the business' storefront windows with glue. I observed four posters on each of the store's four front windows. The posters depicted President Bush saying, 'DIE FOR OIL,' and, 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL.' I photographed the damage on the storefront windows and performed an area check for other damaged businesses, but did not locate any in the Broadway East business corridor. I left complainant with a business card with a case number on it and returned to the precinct to complete my report."
The Hot Gun/West Seattle/Sun Feb 23/ 10:19 pm: A Vietnamese-born man called the SPD to report that he had found a .38 caliber handgun beneath the oven in his apartment, which he had occupied for the past two months. The complainant did not want the gun and had no idea where it was from or how it got underneath his oven. The mystery gun was submitted to the evidence unit.
