Arrest Someone Already
If Al-Qaeda had caused a calamity such as British Petroleum’s Macondo gusher, how would the federal government have handled it? Would we have asked oil companies to take care of it? If I dump a few hundred gallons of Havoline 10w40 in the St. Charles Avenue neutral ground and the police show up, can I just tell them to stop the streetecar and keep people away, that it’s my oil and I’ll take care of the situation?
