Letters to the Editor
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Won't becomes can't
Much as Glenn admits in this piece that he has long adhered to the notion that the people who should have blown whistles, held investigations, charged people did not because they were stunned by the radicalism, I have long adhered to the notion that there was some way that all these people were acting out of fear, out of a desire for reasonableness, out of corporate interests and the like.
But, as my mother-in-law says, after a while won't becomes can't.
Sooner or later it all seems to converge on complicity. I am beginning to believe that the reason nothing seems to spur these people into action, revelation upon revelation, is because what is being revealed isn't news to them. They knew, and they have been living with the inaction for a very long time.
I don't like these thoughts, they are a very dark vision of the Congress and the Press. But what is there left to think?