Sure the crimes they have been charged with are serious, but they clearly are not guilty of reducing the average IQ of Boston to the point where people think a home made Light Bright looks like a bomb for crying out loud. They won’t go to jail if the law still works in Boston. On the other hand, now that we are living in a country where habeus corpus has been suspended by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, they might get carted off to Gitmo and never be heard from again. The best way to prevent that is to be highly visible, like answering only hair questions at the press conference. Now everybody in the country knows if they suddenly disapear. Perhaps when the Ministry of Love has sent copies of 1984 to all the members of Congress who voted to legalize torture (like waterboarding ) and strip your civil rights, this act might be repealed.

Common sense is not dead. It’s resting.

Do you think you could have done better? … after an arraignment where “significant prison time” might very much be a reality?

If Jerry Seinfeld had done the same then, yes, I’d be disappointed. Given the set, setting, and individuals involved, I’m pretty damned impressed.