Coupla posts I’d been intending to getting to.

First, this cite of H.L. Menken on Public Enemy Number One. Note: the "police officers" you see today are of the same character makeup as those Good Germans who — as Billy himself puts it — "didn’t listen to their own conscience as they loaded Jews into cattle cars." Go read the whole cite, but here’s the essential:

What the common man longs for in this world, before and above all
his other longings, is the simplest and most ignominious sort of peace:
the peace of a trusty in a well-managed penitentiary.

Next, some old notes on our beloved Constitution.

…the very height of what America was all about was stated in the Declaration of Independence.

And it was all downhill from there. Read it.