A lot of good people work for the government, even high up in it, but as an institution, by its very nature, it can’t be trusted, “democratic” or otherwise.

In “Sounds From Another Room,” Peter Horsley, an RAF general entrusted with Britain’s nuclear weapons, says that when he was on the ground critically injured after a car crash, a helpful-seeming woman cop asked him questions, and the cops used his responses, against him in court later.

The government can be ruthless, even to its own.

Joseph C. Keller

Graduate Student

Mathematics