The Richard Paey case illustrates clearly the cruelty of the american people. A human tendency towards cruelty played upon by the government. Preyed upon by the government, actually.

The right wing christian judges prevailed, and a man's life is ruined. At the hands of the government.

A very good editorial by David Borden, as usual. The militarization of virtually all US police forces is not good.

I remember a friend of mine from youth, who always wanted to be a soldier--like his eventual father-in-law, he dreamt of the military. Then, he could not qualify for the military because of some weird heart thing. He is still alive today, but the military would not accept him.