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mindwalker_i

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11. A cycle of criminalizing public service?

Reply to Octafish (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:53 PM

Mar 2014

Holy shite!

You know what? When public service includes attacking countries to steal their oil for well-connected corporations - using soldiers for corporate profits - then yeah, public service is criminal. When it includes electroshock of "detainees," which is a nice word for people who just got picked up by an occupying force with no due process, then yeah, it's fucking criminal.

And here Issa is digging up dirt on the other party, but we can't go after him because it might send the wrong message. Sometimes I wonder why elected Democrats enjoy punching themselves in the face so much.

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Obama Reluctance on Bush Prosecutions Affirms Culture of Impunity [View all] Octafish Mar 2014 OP

Rumy, Condi, Yoo, Bush, and Cheney laughing Supersedeas Mar 2014 #1

Impunity. Octafish Mar 2014 #7

Octafish provides the Coup de gras Puzzledtraveller Mar 2014 #2

Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Rejects Prosecution of ''Non-Egregious'' Bush Crimes Octafish Mar 2014 #10

A cycle of criminalizing public service? mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #11

You have to be pretty fucking naive to expect an american president to prosecute CBGLuthier Mar 2014 #3

When did a Republican do something nice for a Democratic president? Octafish Mar 2014 #4

Then they are guilty as well.... TheNutcracker Mar 2014 #5

That is what it really is. TheKentuckian Mar 2014 #17

then go on the nearest streetcorner wearing a sandwich board calling Obama a war criminal. dionysus Apr 2014 #26

I didn't write the penalties or the law, if such was a bridge too far then why ratify? TheKentuckian Apr 2014 #31

So presidents aren't really about "liberty and justice for all" - right? polichick Apr 2014 #27

for some reason, a bunch of DUers think the public would get behind trying the bush admin for war dionysus Apr 2014 #28

Hey, wait a minute. (not really relevant, but still...) postulater Mar 2014 #6

Good catch! I noticed that, too, when I heard it on Democracy Now in 2009. Octafish Mar 2014 #13

We're just a bit defensive here in Wisconsin lately. postulater Mar 2014 #14

Feingold was the only one to vote against USA PATRIOT Act. Octafish Mar 2014 #15

du rec. xchrom Mar 2014 #8

The Wall Street settlements and the new aristocracy Octafish Apr 2014 #29

a two party system...where? Supersedeas Apr 2014 #30

"For whatever reason..." Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2014 #9

The reason is simple..it's so HE won't get held to account for the drones etc after HE leaves office truebrit71 Mar 2014 #12

Orwell got it wrong. Octafish Mar 2014 #16

Excellent post. woo me with science Mar 2014 #24

I was told right here on DU, TWICE yesterday, that there is no way a US President can be prosecuted sabrina 1 Mar 2014 #18

As long as there are two of us... Octafish Mar 2014 #19

Octafish, the feeling is mutual! sabrina 1 Mar 2014 #21

k&r, dammit. johnnyreb Mar 2014 #20

K&R woo me with science Mar 2014 #22

Some days it's easy to imagine living in the Wiemar Republic in 1938...k&r n/t bobthedrummer Mar 2014 #23

A zero-tolerance for IMPUNITY kick. n/t bobthedrummer Apr 2014 #25