So where were the mobs of pro-terrorist demonstrators in Boston yesterday when shoe bomber Richard Reid was sentenced? After all, isn't the antiwar movement a fifth column that supports America's enemies, as right-wingers insist? Here was one of America's enemies in the flesh, being sentenced to life in prison. Where were his supporters? Why haven't we seen them during his trial? Why haven't pro-Reid petitions clogged our e-mail in-boxes? Why does a Google search for "free Richard Reid" come up empty?

Some fifth column.