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Originally posted by sycamore
TS, are you familiar with the McWilliams situation?
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Nope, and I wasn't referring to it in any way.
We live in a wash of inequity, venality, banality, and vice. Conspiracies abound, collusion runs rampant, and coercion is the order of the day.
I am aware of that. I expect it. I'm not referring to any conspiracy or cabal trying to take our lives and freedoms away, I take that for granted.
As a sonar technician on a fast attack submarine, I've dealt with spooks, DIA, killers, Navy SEALS. I've met people that the only thing stopping them from looking right through me was the fact that I carry Top Secret information in my head. I've met the people who do the real dirty work. I know people who
SCARE me.
Part of the reason they scare me is their unshakable beliefs. An unwillingness to accept the possibility of being incorrect.