Oooh, if you were Secret Service, would you be able to resist saying "you'll be perfectly safe sir, nothing to worry about... unless they have any of those bunker busters... but I'm sure they haven't.... erm..... nah you'll be fine...... goodnight sir.... hehehehe...."
Montresor to Fortunato.
Indeed....
I watched the Ken Burns "The Vietnam War" documentary a while ago and when they covered the Kent State shootings involving the Ohio National Guard they said that opinion polls in the aftermath of the shootings showed a significant majority of Americans thought the students were primarily to blame. I was really surprised by this, and it could well be that a similar response is being seen in the general population now. From what was shown of the overall situation in America at the time there were alarming equivalents to what has been happening there over the past few years and that was before the current situation blew up. Whilst the Kent State situation didn't have the same racist elements as what is going on now, it did emphasise to me how little has changed in the intervening years regarding the attitudes of law enforcement and the presidential response to such instances.
Given the dogs we had a when I was a kid “dog ate my homework” has a least a remote possibility of being true!
