David Johnson wrote: > I had the impressing from reading _Junkyard Planet_ that pretty much > all of the principal characters were lying, extensively, elaborately > and profoundly -- which means it's very difficult to judge with any > confidence what any of them tell us might be happening -- or have > happened -- "off camera" in pretty much every circumstance. Extrapolate from that level of honesty to the governing institutions of the Terran Federation as a whole.
