[concerned about politics]

this truck was headed north, though, out of the city.

How about this one:
He already did his dirty work and dropped off a "package" and was fleeing town?
Would that theory work? ;-)

[dep]

might be. the fact is, in a free society such as ours anyone who intends to do evil will do evil. unfortunately, in a politically correct society such as ours, our options for casting a net broad enough to do good without being so broad as to be meaningless are severely limited.

i'm afraid that another, much bigger attack will be necessary to get the nation to tell the politically correct crowd to shut the hell up; and unless the politically correct crowd pre-emptively shuts up, such an attack is almost certain.

dep