As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.

It's always bin a bloody world, she says. Only nowadays, some people's blood is better than others.