She smiled. She said this terrible, heart-freezing thing, and she smiled, because she found it amusing. "And everybody involved went right back to being a county judge and a policeman and a lawyer and the owner of the hardware store. And next week they rode out in their hoods and masks and they killed again. That’s exactly what it’s like for us, Jane. It can really happen. It has happened. It’s happened in the United States. And it’s happened here before, long before networks or encryption, or any of the really easy, safe, convenient ways to facilitate large conspiracies. It’s not farfetched at all, it’s not even hard. It’s quite easy if you work at it sincerely, and it’s very real, it’s real like this table is real." She slapped it.