At times during the weeks that i watched people suffering in centretown, i had ugly punitive impulses connected to my frustration that no institution capable of mitigating that suffering was taking action. It was, and remains, easy to compare it to swift & brutal suppression of …demonstrations I've known to be less disruptive, less shot through with extremism, less against the Geneva Convention. So i may not have quite crystallized the thought "i wish these assholes would get gassed and beaten the way people i admire do when seeking justice," but i get