I'm gonna say this about Roman, and then I'm gonna be done publicly.

If you drag me into this mess any more, I'll block you and forget about you with no compunction.

Roman is my friend.

I figured out who he was within about 5 minutes of opening Sanction the Book.

It's a singular work, and it's also prophetic on a great many levels.

Roman said to me once, "I'm the worst character in the book."

Lyndon MacLeod is a man who tried to shoulder the weight of the world, and found it impossible.

In so doing, he lost his moral standing.

Lyndon McLeod on the other hand is a man who's lived a hard and interesting life.

Sanction the Book is a work of fiction. It's a romantic epic poem. It is true on many levels, sometime literally true, but often metaphorically true.

It is the epic of the working man.

It was written by a working man of uncommon intelligence and building aggression.

He had a bone to pick with the world; Lyndon retired to a mountain and wrote for 10 months in a last ditch effort to create something beautiful, rather than cross that final bridge into destroyer.

What he's written will live on regardless of how his life proceeds from here.

That said, my friend has a great deal of anger in his soul.

The book was not enough to abate the rage.

Everybody who knows him at all has experienced his rage boiling over, and it's not pleasant.

But, I've known people filled with rage all my life, and I've also found, much like my friend here, that their love and friendship are equally intense.

@MorlockP is a dick who took the time to write a hate thread about me pal @TheBrometheus, and Roman demonstrated his loyalty.

Usually, especially on here, you just block an asshole like that and move on, but Roman takes his friendships seriously.

And he has a code.

It's his, and it often falls outside the alignment of my own.

It ain't right to threaten a man's family, for example.

Not right at all.

That said, the habit of internet antagonists pushing sensitive people into emotional turbulence ain't right either.

I've had my ass kicked for words of disrespect. I've kicked some ass for the same.

Consequences are important, they regulate behavior

People on the internet expect to get away with disrespect, viewing the worst possible consequence ad being banned from the internet.

This has created a great deal of pent up rage and frustration.

Politically, socially, ubiquitously.

It's now bleeding into the real world.

Ironically enough, this is one of the main themes of Sanction the Book.

This chaotic mess of digital society is exploited to foment divides, dissent and destruction in cultures across the world in a new kind of warfare.

Sanction is partly about what happens as a consequence.

Is it any surprise that the man who wrote it takes this idea seriously?

I've tried to tell you all that this is the case a great many times.

Roman is my friend, and I want him to survive himself.

But, I understand that he is as he is, and that's not changing.

Lyndon became Roman to give voice to the voiceless working man.

He did that better than anyone I've ever encountered, personally or through their art.

He's building a life around his seminal work, and it's what keeps him - and a bunch of other people - alive.

Part of that life is the brotherhood he builds with other men along the way.

His book and his brothers are all that he cares about.

That's why his intense rage manifested in such as way when that doof Travis went out of his way to denigrate Adam.

I want to repeat, no threats against women and children should've been made.

I also want to repeat, speech without consequence is a dangerous fallacy.

None of the prime actors behaved correctly.

The fact that the FBI got involved in this should serve notice to all of us.

Roman is my friend, but I wish he'd been more careful with his words.

Travis is a dick, but I wish he'd been more careful with his words.

We should all be careful with our words, or we might have a knock at the door.

Law enforcement or outlaw, you don't want that knock.