"And truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. When those in power intend to abuse that power, they look to an outside enemy in order to trick their people into pressing the means to their own abuse into the hands of the abusers. If an enemy does not exist, it will be manufactured, and all manner of horrors attributed to it, so that anyone who demands truth and accountablilty is set upon as being unpatriotic. And so that, when someone said to be an enemy is found, there will be few questions asked about guilt or innoncence, and many faces averted when he is taken away."

- Alta by Mercedes Lackey