Ghosts from the past, their sister's suicide, Catholic guilt and attacks from Boston journalists and crime families binds them together in a clannish solidarity whether they like it or not.
"When you're out of cover ups to hide your guilt, you attack the legitimacy of the investigation," tweeted former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.
Into this unhappy cocktail Cameron added a hamfisted retreat on the NHS, negative remarks about British history, £650 million more for Pakistan and an inaccurate and almost guilt-ridden attack on Oxford University.
For example, "Hysteria," which was first produced in London in 1993, is about the rueful, self-examining thoughts and unresolved guilts that attack Freud as he nears his death.
They detailed the many sleepless nights, post-traumatic stress, lost income, nightmares, panic attacks, guilt, depression and flashbacks.
Like others here, he believes that the United States has not produced proof of guilt in the attacks.
"Since the attacks, guilt and resentment have been playing a bigger part of widowed people's lives," said Arleen Stern, director of outreach services at the New York Service Program for Older People Inc., an agency on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that offers group and individual sessions for people who have lost spouses or partners.
"If we want to play these guilt by association attacks, let's do it," he said.
For every line of attack, guilt can be passed on.
General Musharraf told reporters today in China, where he is on a state visit, that he would crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad if there was evidence to prove their guilt in the attack on Parliament.
