[wastoute]

You still aren’t addressing the question I actually posed. What information was known beforehand that suggested to LE that firing up a public, crowded place was going to be a good way to deal with whatever it was (that they sure are reluctant to share). When modified, limited hangout is how they deal with it we can rest assured it ain’t pretty. I suppose you can’t address that because there just is NOT an acceptable answer. You were a carrier pilot, you know there is right and wrong. You get the airframe on the deck or you don’t. When it’s right you watch the tape and go get breakfast. Done. Next mission. Here we are a month later and we are still talking about how there may have been crosswinds, the tape had to be decoded by Eskimos in Zimbabwe, etc.

Think back to your Wing Commander or maybe you were a Wing Commander. Was “tap dancing” tolerated in your squad room? So why is it here? The situations are different, you may respond, but I ask, are they really? The only reason we are treated like mushrooms is that we allow it.

[LucyT]

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-Frederick Douglas

[USNBandit]

Let me be absolutely straight forward for you. If you start a gunfight with the police in the adjacent parking lot, you should expect an immediate response. The police have no requirement to take fire before returning fire. The threat can be to either the police or any other person.

I don't know how long you will have to wait for your answers, but until then everything is pure speculation. The greatest of plans rarely survives first contact.