That's it. I've had enough. The aircrew in that chopper were in the National Guard. These are reservists. I was on a drug interdiction mission in April, and I'm as conservative as anyone around FR. So, am I a drug soldier? You are so hopelessly out of touch on this. We are the same people that protect and defend our country's freedom. I strongly protest your attitude about this in the most vehement terms. Are you going to start spitting on Americans in uniform now?
We'll have to see about the actual spitting, which ideologues in a previous generation didn't think twice about doing. But there are some anarcho-libertarian ideologues here who think that Arlington National Cemetery is a socialist enterprise, filled with freeloaders who didn't pay for their own interment.
Please allow me to personally thank you for the personal sacrifices you make for our freedoms. (Be advised that some here will think your duties include rolling drunks for their pocket change.)
In this thread all of my comments on the CNN article have been directed toward the "silent majority" of Americans (as Tricky used to call them) who empower the drug soldiers--although the order takers certainly have blood on their hands and their souls are equally in jeopardy.
You may not think so now, but the day is approaching when you will find out that the libertarians were right about personal responsibility.
You may think that you can skate right through the Judgement by telling your Creator:
"I didn't know the difference between vice and crime. I didn't know that it was a crime (with victims) when I helped install into power a ruthless coalition of Bootleggers and Baptists. How can you put responsibility on me and expect me to do the logic and figure out that the police state I helped create was in fact a huge crime and not a 'noble experiment.'"
I was on a drug interdiction mission in April
There's still time to repent.