. . . heartless, sadistic cold-blooded killer, this series--and particularly QUIET PLEASE!--constitutes a fertile training ground. When a nation is at war, having a "boot camp" to keep its children from growing up playing violins or painting daisies, but rather being able to fiendishly finish off enemies with few qualms, is the hallmark of a Great Society. America likes to picture herself as the underdog--or, ever better, the under-mouse--that is, a scavenger vermin always on the spot to filch a stray blue Hawaii or not thoroughly baked Alaska. Given that, indoctrinating young tykes with endless cartoons about mice loving to bully, torture, maim and murder the guardian cats meant to protect households is the perfect analogy even Today in this our Modern 21st Century for a Jan. 6-style Insurrection.