Posting on Flame was the third clue. The post header and the final sentence were the other two.

Thanks to your guidance and example, I have become well enough aware of RWA logic and rhetoric to reproduce it on demand.

And yes, breaking up government agencies into smaller and smaller units is the perfect opportunity to allow local corruption and control to escape oversight, accountability, supervision and the law of the land. Remember my examples of the small town sheriff appointed by the local cattle baron resenting the arrival of Marshal Dillon from faraway Dodge City? I call it the Magna Carta Maneuver, local bullies like being big frogs in small ponds. Its what they call "local government". Corruption may be more lucrative at the national level, but its easier to get away with at home.

Besides, I was wondering when it would occur to the Right that now that their small town cultural police was diminishing in numbers, they might want to supplement its numbers with a dedicated urban militia. Patronage is another tool of fascism.

I do agree with you wholeheartedly on one point. I too live in a a highly urbanized county were numerous small towns have merged into one urban landscape divided by what are now only purely arbitrary boundary lines. Most of the county is policed by the Sheriff, a professional and well regulated organization. The abuses and corruption seem to be most common in those communities that have opted for "local control". QED.

Ya know, if you have to explain the joke its not funny.