This paper problematizes a conventional equation of representation and displacement. Although much of its narrative portrays the forcibly displaced Karens? situations along the Thai-Burmese border zones, its organizing concern is with a general critique of the conventionally simplistic, passive-voice representation of the displaced, either victims or criminals. Such is the mode of nation-state?s representation which has invariably hidden or forgotten the displaced Others? political subjects. Yet, the nation-state has often been haunted by these peoples? self-re-presentation. The paper hence attends to both passive- and active-voice re-presentations by delineating how the displaced Others subjectify themselves amidst the status quo?s inscription, be they the univocity of statist discourses or nationhood?s containment strategies. A tension between nation-state?s inscription and the displaced Others? subjectification is therefore this paper?s terrain. It explicates such tension amidst the intertwining of three geographies: nation-state?s juridical map, displaced Others? maps of allegiance, and geography of money, all surrounding and forming displaced Others? political subjects. Deploying Walter Benjamin?s notion of ?now-time? and narrated in the fashion of Benjaminian historiography, the paper elucidates how the displaced Others exploit opportunities resulting from the intertwining three geographies, and re-presenting themselves while making nation-state?s present bizarre. Hence, they have created their own times, disrupting nation-state?s time as well as its linear and coherent storyline. By re-presenting themselves, they have also shattered nation-state?s self-representation: the displaced Others have ?struck back,? as it were. It is when these displaced Others strike back that they disorder nation-state?s power terrains, hence confounding the victim/criminal distinction. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscrip