Tim May wrote:

Wait a minute, John! Aren't these the same Europeans described by Marc Rotenberg as being more privacy- and liberty-loving than Americans?

Indeed, the same. The same as those righteous pastors who nudged us youngsters to sow oats across the Rio Grande to protect the virtue of innocents who were delighted to sneak away to join us and the mestizos in the dry creek bed just outside town. The same as the generals and pols who now hector and lecture us to deny their seignorial infidelities and cover-ups. Heads of state, leaders of armies, defenders of law, hah! Best show in years, watching these pigfesters finger each other while seen-it-all Virtue and Justice laugh and crook up the next quaverer ashaking.