Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
I'm not faulting you for feeling that way. I feel that way, and by second hand. I'm collecting a paycheck and working, but I'm watching my friends and hometown collapse financially. I'm just stating it because I feel it's important to say these things in times like these.
We once rolled a guy up who they wouldn't let us kill. I processed his belongings. He had a LOT of child porn on him, and he was in a lot of it. He was also responsible for financing the local groups spreading new IED materials and TTPs. I could have, and thought about, walking up to his temporary holding cell and turning his head into a fucking canoe. It would've been the end of my career, marriage and freedom, but I wouldn't have lost sleep over the killing, itself.
But something has to separate us from him, or we all go down the road where the German police found themselves -- from "just doing my job" to shooting pregnant women in the back of the head.
I love this board, this community, and what everyone has built. I love this country. I feel singularly inadequate, but I'm not giving up on any of it.