[quote]Robert A wrote:
[quote]idaho wrote:
The officer on the left expresses everything…The motherfuckers stripped the dead officers of their weapons before they left the restaurant. May they roast in fucking hell for eternity. [/quote]
I can’t speak to bolded above, but they lived their last moments as failures, and I am fairly certain they knew it. Their statement of “Tell the police the revolution has started.” would be chilling, except there is no revolution, and they didn’t start shit.
Jerad and Amanda Miller were simply poor examples of humanity, not revolutionaries. They are not harbingers of sweeping forces, or indicative of anything but broken, useless individuals. They didn’t strike a blow for a cause. They lashed out and unfortunately took the lives of people far, far better than themselves. Killing those two officers and a Walmart greeter was a destructive act much more akin to a child who, unable or unwilling to create on his own, spends his time at the beach smashing other children’s sand castles than the first blow struck for a cause. They weren’t revolutionaries, and they didn’t start shit.
In the days and weeks to come I am sure we are going to read/find out about whatever passed for motivation to the couple. I don’t know if they will have self-identified as communist socialists, national socialists, anarchists, racial separatists, sovereign citizens or some disjointed combination of the above. I am confident that regardless of any claimed ethos they will just be sad, examples of what happens when people continuously draw the wrong conclusions from every fucking experience in their lives. They were and are nobody’s champions, they never were revolutionary, and they didn’t start shit.
The officers they killed amounted to something in their lives. They left behind children, families, and friends. They have legacies. They will be remembered by those that knew them, and even some who did not. All Jared and Amanda Miller could manage was to be the ones who took a little bit of goodness out of this world. Their crowning act was to affect a surprise attack on two police officers, perhaps not technically an ambush but close enough to one, and then nearly immediately get routed by a police response, cornered in a Walmart and kill themselves. They may have left behind a manifesto, or writings, or video of just how worthless they were, and it will be mocked (like Dorner’s pathetic diatribe, or Kazinski’s ramblings, or Elliot Rodger’s pathetic testaments). Jared and Amanda Miller will be remembered with the low grade disgust and hate that is appropriate for failed parasites. Their names will fade into the past. The grief caused by their actions will fade with time, the families of the fallen will rebuild, because they can, because they are strong enough. The memories of the fallen will remain and be treasured, but not the memories of the Millers. Because they weren’t revolutionaries and they didn’t start shit.
I am confident the Millers knew the above at the end. They didn’t seek the soap box a capture and trial would have given them. They didn’t speak to a grand plan, or big ideas. They didn’t face their own mortality like it was a means to an end. When reality, and a police response, was staring them in the face they removed themselves from the world, one last act of destruction. They were not acting like people trying to start a movement, or affect change. They were acting like the failures they were. They were not revolutionaries, and they didn’t start shit.
I sincerely hope that the families and loved ones of Officer Alyn Beck, Officer Igor Soldo, and the Walmart employee find the peace and healing they most certainly need. I hope that the time it takes for their memories to be of good times rather than this grief is short.
Train hard. Stay Safe.
Regards,
Robert A
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Robert,
Very elegantly written with insightful analysis. I guess, I should not have posted with such anger earlier, but, I am weary of either seeing or reading about good men/women dying in the line of duty. I have lost two in the last 3 weeks,and, that is going into a situation with eyes wide open, not shot in the back of the head by a coward.
Good Post. I will be the first to admit,I get locked in too tight every now and then. You post put things back in order.
