"Some of those laws have been amended." the general reminded him. "Listen, son. I know you’re intelligent. Surely you can see what’s happening around us. Surely, you can sense the moral rot. We’re groaning under the legacy of that bastard Howling Coyote and his disciples. This used to be the greatest country in the world. Now look at us. We’ve been cut off at the knees and beggared because we’ve accepted the yoke forced on us by the creatures of this new age. How can a man survive in this world?"