“It’s sort of a herd mentality,” the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr. says of the press, “a lemming-like mentality. If you don’t go with the flow you’re anti-American and therefore a suspect. And we’ve seen this before, these patriotic frenzies. It’s very convenient having an undeclared war that you can call a war and impose military tribunals and wartime security and we have these generals telling us that this war’s going to go on for a long, long time…. To be against them is to be patriotic, then hell, call me a traitor.”