No, I think under that circumstance Claymore would kill Bush. That's my guess. I've heard about Claymore some from a mutual acquaintance, and he's a hardheaded man (determined, I mean, not stupid).

You're right, Claymore, that in most of those empires (not all of them) I would have been arrested...und taken behind ze buildink und schott! Ja!

I keep an eye on things around me, and if it looks likely to go that way where I live, I will go elsewhere, just as Marlene Dietrich and so many others did.

In the meantime, I'll continue using free speech as best I can, same as you. Here's hoping the would-be dictators among us never get their way.

- LH