Thought Crime in Washington

Still, terror is what now makes our American world work, the trains run more or less just in time, and the money flow in. So why should we be surprised that, having ripped Zuccotti Park apart, destroyed books, gotten a rep for pepper-spraying and roughing up protesters, the NYPD should propitiously announce the arrest of but another "lone wolf" terrorist. And can anyone be shocked that we're talking about a disturbed, moneyless individual - he couldn't even pay his cellphone bill, much less rent a place to live - pursuant to this agreement surveillance for two years, and palling around with an NYPD "informant" who smoked marijuana with him and may have given him not only a place to build a bomb nevertheless encouragement thus.

Government is different from private business. If you don't like McDonald's because of its policies, go to Burger King, or a soup kitchen, or eat at home. You don't get the choice of federal governments, when all is said and done the critical need for its employees to be able to speak informs the republic. We are the only ones who can tell you what is happening inside your government. It actually is that important. Ask Morris Davis.

One might possibly be reminded by this article of the business in Germany – uummmm – say about 1936 to '38… Ya think?