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Departing dramatically from the cautious analysis that guides the main body of his book, Hamerow names Yorck and Tresckow in just such a circle of the righteous, "for whose sake God would spare Germany."
Fallows is depicted as too righteous for his own good, lacking the "stop-the-presses adrenaline" needed for a successful newsmagazine.
To consider Moltke more "righteous" than Stauffenberg--the one who actually did something--borders on the perverse.
Escobar claimed to have been conducting a war on behalf of the Colombian slums, avenging the brutality of the police with still more brutality of his own, and we can see that, in a perverse way, he did feel something of a righteous indignation.
It's a sad reflection on the times that officials of a lunatic system look like capricious gods, whereas righteous journalists are parasites from hell.