Context: Among innocent protesters being used as an emotional shield for abusive provocateurs.

>On this night, Rogers wore a helmet and carried a blue shield made out of the side of a plastic barrel. Like most days, he spent most of the protest trying to take down the fence and screaming at the federal agents guarding it, asking them to explore their conscience.

>After six years working for the military, Rogers said he felt better equipped than many to find talking points that might make the agents think about their mission more critically.

>“I think it is a good idea to try to plant some seeds in their heads for … them to go home and sleep on. These are people’s kids and mothers and wives and daughters that they’re gassing and they’re going to have to go home to THEIR mothers and wives and daughters,” said Rogers, as explosive booms echoed around him. “I try to encourage them to think about the fact that they’re on the wrong side of history and that they will not be treated so kindly.”

Confused brothers and fathers launch psychological attacks against brothers and fathers who put their lives and families on the line, to protect the lives and families of neighbors daily.

Yes, the situation is this fucked up.

Those who will one day run into your burning home to save your daughter, are at odds with those who will one day need the protection of someone willing to take a bullet for you.

The real enemy is he who turned brother against brother, father against father, neighbors against neighbors.

Only a foreign adversary has the means and motives to twist our relationships into the mess we see before us.