“We have been silent. But we are prepping. The liberal mob attempted to destroy Shell Shock. But we will not allow it. This is now about more than a concert. This is a war of ideology.”
Nope. It’s you insisting your pet murderer is more important than your stated goal of helping vets with PTSD. It’s not about “more than a concert”. You don’t have a concert, you have a bar band. It’s not a war, you lost the only ground you had.
I’ve only seen the film about that case and in that at least it was really religious fundamentalists who were backing him. But in a complex way of supporting but not wanting to openly but is it any wonder if someone does this and the women are immoral anyway.
Eventually he became politically not useful.
I enjoyed the film but others I know didn’t because it was a poor procedural and the main character wasn’t the hero or something. For me the point was that a normal police procedural would miss the point.