Assembly is expression. Individuals must be granted the right to associate with those and only those they select. The groups that result shall not be compelled to open their ranks to those they wish to exclude. Delirious from so many tiny infections, Talbott had ranted: Be horrible, exist as a horrible threat, and at the moment of your greatest power stay your hand. By hurting people and then not hurting them you acquire their love. He’d told them: Imagine there’s no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.
