[Noumenon]

"The official agency position is we would not do anything to discourage the people aggrieved here from pursuing every option open to them," said Assistant Director John E. Collingwood, a spokesman with FBI headquarters in Washington.

The disingenuity of this statement sickens me. That's so easy to say when you have unlimited resources to use agaisnt those who have been wronged. Schultz' family will wind up bankrupt, the son a disfigured cripple for the rest of his life, the perp will walk and worst of all ,the culture and the mindset that made this possible will have been validated. The bottom line is that it's open season on anyone they choose to target. They're right - there is no middle ground.

[headsonpikes]

"You're either with us or against us".

Get with the program, Mr. Noumenon, or feel the wrath of 'your' government.

[muawiyah]

Whatever the outcome in civil litigation, the fact is this kid ends up with a license to kill at least one federale without penalty.

No jury would ever convict him.

So Braga messed up twice. First he shot an innocent person. Second he failed to kill him.