Clay Evans Leaving the Camera

As a writer and someone who enjoys opining on the government, authority and policy issues in general, I've always respected the style and language of the Daily Camera's Clay Evans. He is leaving the paper for other pursuits after a long career with that paper. Last week his editorial touched on the kind of concern over growing governmental authority that is either outright supported or simply observed with indifference that I've often alluded to in my writings.

As a great local writer prepares to take leave, here is a link to the article. An excerpt:

Perhaps more than any other Soviet bloc nation, East Germany devolved into
a frightening, oppressive police state. The dreaded secret police, or Stasi,
made it its mission to "know everything" about its citizenry. By 1989, when the
Berlin Wall came down, it was estimated that the Stasi had as many as 91,000
full-time employees and a terrifying 300,000 citizen "informants."