Amazingly, I wrote a reasonable response to this exchange of opinions that wholly agreed with neither Pat nor Alisha but did affirm part of their opinions. That was censored.

The only plausible reason the censor would have deleted my response was my blanket criticism of the police in the United States. This censorship is ironic in the present situation since we have the Federal Government making baseless accusations against individuals and then rendering them without due process to a forced labor-torture camp. The presumption of innocence is not only the basis of the rule of law, it is also the legal means by which the law checks the excesses of the federal, state and local governments. The presumption of innocence is actually evidence for the accused, according to the Supreme Court (1894). The upshot: Accusations are always cheap. Evidence and legal rationality are expensive.

Dr. Robby's reticence was not devoid of good sense.