re "not arresting growers, but supervising quality control"

[Terrance]

> 
> But let me speculate.  He started his article on
> Orwell with Orwell's birth and parentage.  I'll
> speculate that he may have considered that made a kind
> of sense and I'll base that speculation on the fact
> that that's in fact what he did.
> 
> Do I think that's a more reasonable, more tenable,
> position than claiming:
> 
> "I suspect, he's using [the comment about the opium
> trade] to point to his own treatments of this subject
> elsewhere (the opium that Franklin shows Dixon how to
> mix up in a generic equivalent of an expensive patent
> medicine, for example; or, the way the American
> colonists come in and set up commerce in the local
> locoweed), inviting the reader to consider this
> Foreword in the broader context of his other
> writings"?
> 
> Yes I do.

Oh, well I can go along with that. I'm not sure why this worth pointing
out. 
It's kinda obvious. Doug will speculate out on a limb, blindfolded,  one
foot in his mouth. If that's not reasonable, well, you can't go around
calling people out on a limb, blindfolded, one foot in their mouths
reasonable, now can you.