Today, I'm watching "To Kill A Mockingbird" on television and it's making me really weepy because I think Atticus Finch is my all-time favorite movie hero (IIRC, the American Film Institute agreed). My country so desperately needs a few Atticus Finches, and a few Jefferson Smiths (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/), but those kind of people are rare these days, and when they do try to step forward, they're so quickly and viciously shot down. Maybe people like that never really existed outside of fiction. But it's nice to dream.