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I like the fact that they have a sense of humor, but it's the kind of joke one can just imagine someone like Schama imagining them making--and of course, it has to be a joke about one of the "victims of the Terror" for whose deaths they want us to believe the members of the CSP are personally responsible... And really, what could be more monstrous than making jokes at the expense of someone you've killed? Frankly, if that's the kind of sense of humor they want to show them with, I'd rather have them entirely serious.