You know especially on the surface, but even on a deeper level, I'm in agreement with your sensibilities here. However, there is this one little caveat I think would be interesting to bring up... What if - and yes it's totally a 'what if' - what if there were even a deeper than deep story here, that we (the mainstream media & consumer of it) are simply not privy to? I mean everybody knows for instance that the American CIA does all kinds of clandestine... stuff... and maybe we find out about it 20 yrs later, or maybe never! Well, up North we have our own little spy-doo-dad thing going: CSIS. Now, have you ever seen just how small electronic 'bugging' devices are??? I tell you what, if it was ME running CSIS, and if I were concerned with radicalization (which many pundits indicate "starts at home...") then wouldn't it be a nifty idea to utilize public schools in our information gathering strategies? But surely nobody would ever ever EVER engage in such devious machinating!