A Credible Threat?

I have long believed that the character of a nation is reflected in its leaders.

The United States groans under the excrable Twit from Massachusetts (yes he is).

Since the introduction and passage of the bill which allows the detention and torture of anyone the president chooses, three school shootings have made headlines:

In Colorado, a drifter took six high-school women hostage, molested them, and shot one, then killed himself.

In Wisconsin, a 15-year-old shot and killed his principal.

And today a truck driver killed three Amish girls and then himself in Pennsylvania.

National character may begin at the top; But it often finds expression at the bottom. What example could these killers have been following? Strange that this sort of slaughter of the innocents took place under the beady and ever-so watchful eye of Dubya and his "culture of life (and torture, and assasination ...)".

But let's not feel too smug here: Canada has Stephen Harper--a man anxious to ally himself with Mr. Bush in his War on Whatever He Don't Like.

We've already had one school shooting.