Coincidentally, I finished Homeland about 20 minutes ago, read straight through. I remember thinking that Little Brother was a bit overwrought, but the events of the past month have got me thinking that the two books now read like contemporary history.
I live a few blocks from my city’s police academy, and I often see the cadets outside training. It’s looking less and less like they’re training for community policing and more and more for military action and crowd control. I have a lot of respect for the people who are police, but I’m pretty concerned about their orders and who they’re actually tasked to protect. Our mayor is not exactly known for his tolerance of dissent, or even discussion of the city’s policies.
