If you haven't heard of Brandon Darby, the activist-turned-FBI-informant whose undercover participation in the 2008 RNC "Welcoming Committee" activities ultimately sent two fellow activists, David McKay and Bradley Crowder, to jail, be sure to check out the most recent episode of the public radio show This American Life (#381, "Turncoat").

Between hearing this and watching Band of Brothers on TV the other night (namely the scene where the Easy Company learns the hard way about Nazi concentration camps, namely by encountering one), my mind can't stop swimming around in that place where one's anger at the brokenness of our world leads to decisive action, sometimes violent.  Sometimes truth seems as plain as day.  I remember wondering if my anger at the Bush administration's abuse of power would ultimately ever lead to my joining a liberal militia of some kind--if the strength of my convictions would ever outweigh my existing commitments and belief in the political system.

I'll post on this more in the future, but I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one whose mind has piddled around in that topic.