L3,

Habu is an excitable boy.

I reject amputation absolutely.

Such half-cocked discussions are mischievous at best and trends to malignancy.

Such a surgical euphemism – amputation. Could that take the form of the Wannsee final solution? After all, cancer must be treated aggressively, no? Are these really things to discuss flippantly? Is this even an option in a mature representative republic?

Amputation, civil war, armed resistance. Words that fall off of the tongue so grandly. Words that horrify any true patriot. Words that are shockingly juvenile with the election still almost three weeks away. Are we really so envious of the *vibrant culture* of the third world? Do we really want to taste Europe’s tragic bitterness?

And what of those so compelled by those dark visions? Are they perhaps provocateurs? Pranksters? Are they maybe driven by an agenda worse than our acknowledged opponents? Are they merely stupid or thoughtless?

No, I reject amputation or any discussion of it. Some doors ought to remain closed until the house really and truly is aflame.