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Please take five minutes to read the story at the link below. It is why many journalists do what they do. We ought to make sure more Americans know it. And we all need to care about it. Because if we don't, someday one of us will be ensnared in some inpenetrable could of government bureaucracy, violence or malfeasance - and there will be no one there to help us. Here's the link, to a piece by David Simon, author of "The Wire": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703591.html
http://tinyurl.com/densmore