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"I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago"

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The sentence reads like a man trying to drain all oxygen out of a room before anyone can light a match. Rand Beers chooses the passive voice ("was deposed") to frame himself as a procedural object, not an actor with agency. That matters because depositions are where accountability gets manufactured: every verb can either accept responsibility or outsource it to paperwork. "In association with a case" is classic institutional fog, a way of standing near a fire without admitting you touched the matches.

The context does the heavy lifting. The Golden Venture was not a minor immigration story; it was a vivid, media-scorched symbol of 1990s anxiety about borders, organized smuggling networks, and government competence. By naming it, Beers signals seriousness and scale. By immediately softening the description to "a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens", he compresses real people into a bureaucratic category ("aliens") that keeps emotion at arm's length. That word choice also echoes the language of enforcement and national security, a register soldiers and security officials are trained to inhabit.

Then there's the stumble: "about eight or nine ago". Missing "years" makes it sound like either a transcription hiccup or a memory intentionally kept fuzzy. Either way, the imprecision is telling. It suggests a speaker trying to minimize salience: long enough ago to feel irrelevant, close enough to prove he's been around consequential events.

The intent isn't to confess; it's to preempt. He's sketching a protective frame: yes, I was involved, but only in the sanitized, time-distant, official way.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Beers, Rand. (2026, January 16). I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-deposed-in-association-with-a-case-116861/

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Beers, Rand. "I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-deposed-in-association-with-a-case-116861/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-deposed-in-association-with-a-case-116861/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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