there was a clear picture of imthens of a threat to surrounding populations and to the nation at large. and of course the bottom line in the ft. smith arkansas trial is that it failed as a prosecution, that the defendants were acquitted, which they celebrated in their ininimitable way. i know a little bit about other mass sedition trials over u.s. history. difficult to prove. and even people who have done really bad things obviously in coordination with incredible weaponry for the worst possible reasons and kept records of it, they do seem to get off in these kinds of trials. these are really hard trials to win. i wondered if that was part of your reaction to hearing the about the indictment, keeping in mind the history of how many sedition trials in the past haven t succeeded in g he getting convictions. it s an incredibly high stakes gamm bit for a number of reasons you mentioned. also because over and over again what we see with major