Overheard Starbuck

"If there's a 'criminal underclass' doesn't it follow there would also be a 'law and order' overclass?"
---"Predator and prey?... Oh, you mean like court enforcers and informants? The Untouchables?"
"Yes but more like a demographic, a security lifestyle--doing what they see as the essential jobs in every American community--made up of tens of thousands of cop, military, 'justice', homeland security AND informant families."
---"Law and order royalty?"
"Law and order dynasties."
---"Aren't all those groups tax-funded with legislative oversight and voter approval? Anyway doesn't their constant warfare against crime, rogue nations and now 'the threat from within' keep them too busy to organize?"
"Like Tom and Jerry?"