Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bo again. So today we're going to talk about

Rule 303 and military contractors all over the world just went, oh don't worry nobody's getting indicted.

Rule 303 was a very popular is a very popular term among a certain subset of military contractors.

Because of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, those contractors came into contact with active duty

military, so the term made its way to there. And then from there, it made

its way into law enforcement. We need to talk about that. We need to talk about Rule 303 and

what it means.

The term originated with this guy a very long time ago

back when bolt action rifles were standard issue

for militaries all over the world.

And he's fighting an insurgency, and some of his men get ambushed and killed.

Later on, he finds some locals that have their personal effects. So

he lines him up and shoots him. His commanders did not look favorably on this action.

He wound up in court standing tall.

And at one point they asked him, under what provision, what rule did you feel you had the ability,

the authority or the responsibility to engage in what amounts to a summary execution. And he said Rule 303. There is no

rule 303. Doesn't exist. 303 was the caliber of his rifle. Now what he was saying was I have the

means at hand and therefore the responsibility to act. That's what he

was saying. Now today as it has made its way through active duty and then the law enforcement it has kind of

turned into Mike Makes Right. That is not what that term meant. He felt he had the duty to act. He felt he had that duty. Now, any time Rule 303 is cited,

the action is pretty much always debatable as to whether or not what was done was right.

In this case, we now know, this was something bad to do.

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