Palpatine in '08

[--Pete]

Hi,

The Ninth and Tenth are still in force, last I checked, unless the Constitution has been amended since then.

Well, the 3rd is alive and well, but the 9th and 10th have been pretty much destroyed by the commerce clause. It's all fine and good to give the left-overs to the people and the states, but it's thin gruel when there are no left-overs.

The break isn't north/south, but it has been growing slowly in this direction for about forty years.

As I look at the map, it looks more like the coasts and the hinterlands, although there is a North-South gradient in the East.

Now that IED's have become as common as houseplants, I expect that we will see a sustained series of McVeigh like events. Most of the countermeasures against them are far too annoying to the American public to be implemented. (We do need to talk, in the flesh.) Pessimist, I know, but I welcome being wrong in this case. I really hope I am wrong. Really.

I agree with you, completely. And especially about being wrong. The capability for an individual to destroy have become too great and too simple for peace of mind or a sanguine outlook.

--Pete