Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.