California man arrested after guillotine discovered near US Capitol

Near the seat of American legislative power, a California man was arrested after law enforcement discovered a guillotine positioned close to the US Capitol — a find that transformed an ordinary patrol into a federal investigation. The device, weighted with centuries of symbolic violence and revolutionary meaning, could not be dismissed as accidental or incidental. Its presence at one of the most surveilled locations in the country forces a quiet but urgent question that democracies have always had to ask of themselves: how do we protect the institutions of governance from those who would make