Reply #151: No, I don't think so, to be honest. Both Reid and Kerry have proved themselves

[Joe Chi Minh]

true patriots in their long-standing fight against high-level, white-collar, organised crime, the scourge of American public life; evidently exercises obviously not without risk, and which few of us would relish.

It's scant consolation, but rather a cause of infinitely understandable fury for those of us who find ourselves and/or our family, friends and plain fellow-countrymen increasingly under the cosh of our "robber-baron" capitalism; a cosh of such barbarity it is only found in countries with residual, imperial aspirations and a consequent predilection for preserving the legal right to physically torture people to death.

Few, if any people in public life, other than the rare likes of Martin Luther King and John and Robert Kennedy, for example, see their job as prophetic in the narrower, more lonely sense, but believe that the longer-term workings of the government and laws, provides the safer alternative for all, in that its ultimate success can be counted upon. Still, the poorest are counted on to bear the lions' share of the burden - to wait patiently for a perod of time they can ill afford, or indeed spare at all any longer. Little wonder then that it sticks in our craws to hear someone like Harry laying on that kind of BS blandishment with a trowel.