I've been in Southwestern Utah, where the internet connections are iffy-to-impossible and there are towns with names like Virgin and Orderville, one of the sites of early Mormon experiments with communism. Trust me, it didn't work out any better for Orderville than for Kirkutsk.
Or, as my DP said after a gas stop where you must pay inside, "you think the restroom must have a peep hole."
So nothing to report quite yet, except this piece about the Mormons who helped shape the Bush position on torture, from an LDS attorney and former intelligence officer who taught interrogation techniques:
Flanigan once told his LDS
ward congregation that it was gratifying "to work in a White House
where every day was begun with prayer." In 2005, prior to his rejection
by the Senate to be Gonzales' deputy attorney general, Flanigan was
asked whether waterboarding, mock executions, physical beatings and
painful stress positions were off-limits. "[It] depends on the facts
and circumstances... ." He went on: "'Inhumane' can't be coherently
defined."
[...]
[...]
Mitchell advised that
suspects must be treated like dogs in a cage. "It's like an experiment,
when you apply electric shocks to a caged dog, after a while, he's so
diminished, he can't resist."
Also, I read this:
Crowds mean power. Big crowds can burn down valuable private property,
or make strong political points. And the right to assembly is a big
part of the labor movement, so that sqaushing these crowds has been a
central plank in US business policy for a long time. Suburban spaces,
decentralized and spread thin, are far easier to control and police.
It's almost impossible to have a good riot in the 'burbs.
