In the movie Salt, the final scene involves Evelyn Salt and agent Peabody engaged in a tense conversation on board a helicopter. Salt relays to Peabody the truth behind the Russian sleeper spies and convinces him to let her go. Peabody does so and Salt jumps out and into the Potomac river.
What made Peabody risk his career by letting the protagonist go? He believed in the heroine and, furthermore, he believed that she was the only one who could track and shut down the other Russian cells that his government had never detected.
I'm just thinking about this in relation to the pork barrel issue. What if a citizen just went on a mission to kill all the members of Congress who are implicated in the scam? Like Salt, he'd simply be doing what is definitely in the minds of the public right now. What if that citizen had nothing to lose, similar to the character of Frank in the movie God Bless America?
What would be the reaction if he, in fact, succeeds? Will he be regarded as a hero? A villain? A vigilante who chose to commit the sins that we only dream of doing? An outcast who's lost his faith in the system?
These are indeed dark times.
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