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-{{a|work|[[File:Eagle Squad.png|450px|thumb|center|Licence to [[Die in a ditch|die... ''in a ditch'']].]]
+{{a|work|{{image|Eagle Squad|png|Licence to [[Die in a ditch|die... ''in a ditch'']].}} }}The brave men and women of the [[General Counsel|GCHQ]], here to save the world.
-}}The brave men and women of the GCHQ, here to save the world. They have a unique empowerment from gthe highest reaches of the great modernist machine. James Bond’s famous [[licence to kill]], but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that. But whereas the poor [[negotiator]]s — really, the brave footsoldiers of legal practice in our modern world, however hotly the eaglery denies it — have constraints on the degree of perversity they can bring to their task: they have [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s, [[KPI]]s — all manner of ornate modernist fripperies by which their overlords can impel them to carry on, propelling them to find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and basically box on — the Eagle Squad member has no such constraint. She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any State indefinitely, on principle, with no second-guessing and cajoling from the cheap-suits in Sales. This is ineffable legal stuff; the risks of compromise passeth all muggle comprehending, and that is that. Our Legal Squad has not a licence to kill so much as a ''licence to [[die in a ditch]]''.
+Legal eagles have unique empowerment from the highest reaches of the great [[modernist]] machine.
+Now, James Bond famously had a licence to kill, but — let’s face facts — there is only so much you can do with that. Once you have bumped off Scaramanga that’s really that.
+[[Eagle Squad]]’s power is all the more fearful in that it contemplates indefinite torture of the ''living''. Legal can insist on the most petulant, self-contradictory or wilful editions, on pain of ''everyone having to stop and wait till it is resolved to legal’s satisfaction''.
+Others in the legal documentation flow — notably, the heroic, benighted [[negotiator]]s who are the real brave foot-soldiers of legal practice, however hotly the [[eaglery]] denies it — have meaningful commercial constraints on the perversity they can bring to their task; a fully-credentialised Eagle Squad member suffers no such constraint.
+Yeomen [[negotiator]]<nowiki/>s are measured, their performance gauged, their daily activity reduced to [[metric]]s, [[service level agreement]]s and [[KPI]]s. There is a whole ornate ''smörgåsbord'' of [[modernist]] frippery by which our management overlords can impel people from the back office to keep shunting whatever rock they are assigned to shunt up whatever hill their masters demand. They must find solutions, make accommodations, engineer compromises and box on. There is no tolerance for gratuitous abstrusity.
+But here a [[legal eagle]] has a secret pass. She is a special agent; she is differently empowered. She can resist a [[Sovereign immunity|sovereign immunity waiver]] from an industrial corporate having no particular association with any organ of state indefinitely, on principle, notwithstanding the fatuity of the request — indeed, ''because'' of the fatuity of the request! — with no second-guessing or cajoling from management. This is ineffable legal stuff. It may even occur to the overlords that a corporate customer would have no hope of ''claiming'' sovereign immunity, and this seems a waste of time and effort, but scarcely would anyone be brave enough to say this.
+Matters legal passeth all [[muggle]] comprehending, and that is that. Eagle Squad has not so much a licence to ''kill'' as a ''licence to [[die in a ditch]]''.
+{{sa}}
+*[[Modernism]]
+*[[RAG indicator]]
+*[[Ditch tolerance]]