My tone is different because my feeling is different. I do not fear what my own government may do, here or in the world in general. I deeply fear what your government may do. That accounts for the difference in tone.

As for my exasperation with the general electorate, I am about equally as exasperated with the Ontario electorate for not being imaginative enough to understand or support a new idea like proportional representation as I am with the part of the American electorate who were foolish enough to believe that Saddam was behind 911 and that he had all those supposed WMDs...but in the case of the American electorate, that's a far more important matter with much greater ramifications. It has caused many, many unnecessary deaths, and there are many more to come.