So, selective enforcement is not a problem? It is a good thing that DOJ actually tries to help some of our more hapless. But I, at least, find it a problem when DOJ seems noticeably absent or asleep when it comes to investigating and prosecuting corporate criminals, not to mention righting the massive wrongs disdainfully committed against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the name of the Security State, and instead, just as Rove and others predicted, the Obama Administration suddenly found that against which they had railed during campaign season to be quite handy once in office, but perhaps to be used a little more "judiciously".

By refusing to "look back", as Obama likes to call it, he has tacitly approved of some of the most egregious abuses committed by his predecessor. Absent even token prosecutions for disdainful abuses of wiretap laws by government agencies and Bush Administration officials and absent vigorous investigation and prosecution of fraud on Wall Street and the condonment and involvement, if not orchestration of this fraud by the Federal Reserve, why should anyone not expect this behavior to resume and then exceed what was done under Bush when we get the next government elected upon a "national security" platform--probably in three years.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."