Our cute inner little Eichmanns and their seductive powers of obedience and conformity | Why I require FBI agents to visit the Holocaust Museum
Send all your agents and lab technicians, Mr. Comey, new and old, to the maximum security prisons, for at least a couple of years, for the inmate internship, before they start or resume their services as "the hired Guardians", just like they do nowadays with young doctors, to help them learn what it means to be sick. They will learn there very fast, a la Bernard Kerik style , " to see humanity and what we are capable of", to not " being so cowed by those in power" and to " realize our capacity for rationalization and moral surrender", especially when they are forced to practice the FBI's good old venerable COINTELPRO technics, illegal mass surveillance and error-ridden " hair analysis ". And this is not the matter of splitting hairs, this is about the essence of humanity. The article is good, the action (of sending people to the museum, as the second best option) is even better, and the quote is outstanding: "And that...