[Fred Nerks]

"I part with many FReepers in believing that the worst threats to our Judeo-Christian ways of life lie within, not from the Middle East. Terrorists can also kill innocent people, a terrible thing, but they have no way of altering the fundamental values of our society in the way that Felos is intent on doing*. If anything, the Islamics galvanize values against their own interests, even in the absence of mass terrorism (The Netherlands and Islamic immigration come to mind). Felos and Co., however, operating in a more seductive (to some people) and insidious form, have the ability to make right wrong and wrong right in the consciences of many people."

I can say it no better so I will repeat it. Your very fine comment explains that sinking, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

[TheSarce]

Pinging fellow eyewitnesses to a very accurate and powerful article. We will never be the same as before we met in this battle. But while stunned and sadder for the experience, we are also stronger for having gone through the unthinkable and for having watched all the institutions we've always counted on fail Terri so completely and so callously. We were there, we saw it in its full 3-D Technicolor hideousness, and know better than most how much work there is to do.

We have now been forged in fire. We will go on from here stronger and wiser and with our vision newly unobstructed.