[colorado tanker]

On that day I was the most disgusted I have ever been with my own government. I will never forget opening the paper to see the photo of a man dressed in full SWAT kit, including body armor, brandishing a military weapon at a little kid scared to death.

The utter lawlessness of the act shocked me, but in hindsight it was only a preview of coming attractions for the next Democrat administration.

[MayflowerMadam]

When I watched that I started crying in some visceral way. Our country! I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t.

[libertylover]

opening the paper to see the photo of a man dressed in full SWAT kit, including body armor, brandishing a military weapon at a little kid scared to death.

If there had been a Republican president at the time this happened, that photo would define his/her presidency. Almost every article written about that president would include a copy of that photo.

[tomkat]

You and me both, FRiend.
To this day I can't see that hideous photo without thinking of this:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  What would things have been like if every Security operative,
when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city,
people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase,
but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

A.Solzhenitsyn

[Jimmy Valentine]

I had the same reaction. That was the day I became a Freeper.