[livius]

You're absolutely right. Work of the Devil.

One of the many bothersome aspects of all this is that it seems to have been done so quietly - I notice that the article was from August, but I certainly don't recall reading anything about the event at that time.

I think that's probably going to be their tactic in the future: quietly do awful things, and then let them seep out when it's too late to do anything about them.

[livius]

Ooops! I just realized that even though it's an English language paper, they're using the European date convention - so it would have been Nov. 8, not Aug. 11!

Still, I don't recall reading any advance announcements about this event, and I think it is definitely a fact that many of these things will simply happen quietly.