Richard Forno, that bright man, has a terrific op/ed piece right now on the entertainment industry’s latest chutzpah, telling the FBI that they ought to make file-sharing prosecutions a top priority (as opposed to, say, the war or terrorism or those long-overdue internal reforms). Of course, Ashcroft acceding to any of this ought to be all the proof you need that “homeland security” is designed to protect the powerful from the citizenry, not the citizenry from the attackers.