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the Antitoi raid: DuPlessis's death recoded as geopolitics, not burglary

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M. DuPlessis had been martyred, an assassination only O.N.A.N. would be stupid enough to believe Command would be stupid enough to believe was merely an unfortunate burglary-and-mucus mishap.

Context

The scene reclassifies the DuPlessis killing as an act of war: "martyred," "an assassination" — and the double-nested sarcasm ("only O.N.A.N. would be stupid enough to believe Command would be stupid enough to believe") mocks the U.S. cover-story that it was "merely an unfortunate burglary-and-mucus mishap." From the Separatist side, the death of the Gaspé patron is a geopolitical assassination that reshuffled the cells (leaving the Antitois orphaned), not the botched break-in the American record calls it. The two nations keep the same event on incompatible ledgers.

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