complicity

A lot of big words got thrown around at the height of the left’s anti-war hysteria. The one that really made me see red was “complicity,” as in the charge that the MSM had been directly responsible for the war in Iraq.

You want complicity? I’ll show you complicity.

During their unimaginably hideous crackdown on protesters, the Burmese military junta defined the concept, if not the term, to within a hair’s breadth:

[T]hose being interrogated were divided into four categories of connection to the demonstrations: passers-by, those who watched, those who clapped and those who joined in.

Chilling, isn’t it?