Overheard Starbuck

"If government security agencies like Homeland Security require secrecy in order to be effective doesn't it follow that individuals adept at keeping secrets will assume control? Alcohol, drug, wife and child abusers? Closet-cases of every sexual persuasion? People from the shame-ridden and self-loathing end of humanity's self-esteem spectrum?"
--"Don't forget loyalty-junkies and those hard-wired for hierarchy."
"Do we really want to give damaged people like that carte blanche over the rest of us ordinary neurotics?"
--"Who said anything about 'give'?"