Albert Camoose’s Reviews > Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State > Status Update

Everybody talks about Martial Law. But the book's chapters on the period after, spanning from Aquino to Estrada, really paint a portrait of an unstable country. It's pretty insane to read as a twentysomething. I remember terrorism being a big deal when I was younger. And now I see why. The amount of state-supported militias is scary. Also Ping Lacson is one of Philippine history's underrated villains

Finished Part One: U.S. Colonial Police. The last section discussed this Captain Van Deman who became Father of US intelligence. A cunning demon really. May he rot in hell for providing right wingers with information on radicals and other undesirables.

I think a big mistake I made is reading this without writing down notes or summaries to come back to.