[hellinahandcart]

“This is the way an intel-analyst (intelligence analyst) talks. They ... take data over a period of time and project what will occur. There is no threat here,” she said. “It’s just a prediction of the future.”

“Dear Eric,”
“Sorry you had to die for a speeding ticket (12 mph over the limit). I’m sure that you now know it was NOT WORTH IT! Perhaps your fellow revenue collectors, er I mean, ‘Peace officers’ would do well to take a lesson from your death and think twice about stopping people who are hurting no one and merely traveling the Public way.”

Yep. That's just how *I* always imagined intel-analysts would talk, how about you?

These people can see threats in the most innocuous action or sentence, and wave them around as proof of tyranny. But when it comes to their own words and actions, they will deliberately hair-split them into meaninglessness.

I hear bells ringing somewhere in the neighborhood of my memory; something about this behavior is familiar ...

[dighton]

I hear bells ringing somewhere in the neighborhood of my memory; something about this behavior is familiar ...

I see the outline of mysterious letters: DSM. I see a word beginning with P.