Wow. Wot a piece!! Wish my dad was still around -- he could have spoken to the tale and probably added a few fillips. But it really does capture that certain scent of treachery in the air that people get going when mass paranoia starts stirring. Communists, terrorists, grinches, anarchists -- all the forms of social evil we elect to aim at are the same Beast, aren't they? Our own housepet, too.