Mother Of God... No Wonder The CIA Doesn't Want The Report To Come Out...

[TheKentuckian]

46. There is no defense and such a breach goes so far beyond the pale that I don't know if

I have an argument against the death penalty for all involved, as much as it disgusts me with myself to even think much less to openly say it.

It is the institutional nature of such an evil crime that pushes it beyond anything else I can anchor to that causes the reaction. This isn't just some random twisted fuck. Not some sicko who needed help long before this cross. Not a single or a few crazies that can be simply removed from society.

It also embodies maybe the biggest reason I'm against the death penalty, at least on the visceral level. The cold, calculating, predetermined, systemic nature of it. To apply this mode of thinking to raping a child to torture and break their parent is something I just can't process in a rational way, it is offensive in a way that is far beyond the worst individual acts of atrocity.

I also will not apologize in the slightest for having no comfort level with folks that can "look forward" on this level of evil, to let stuff like this fester and be passed off as in any way remotely tolerable is to foster malignancy in an insane fashion, even to the risk of civil war. To give a pass for acts like this is to sell our collective soul. There is no "moving on" and to think there can be I think puts you on a damn similar path to the one taken to get to this.

At this point, our intelligence network is potentially a greater danger to ourselves and the world than any threat it would protect us from.

The cancer is too deep. I think we will have to blow it up and start very carefully from scratch.

MONSTEROUS!

There comes a place where "pragmatism" simply becomes enabling evil while kinda patting yourself on the back for rationalizations made to sell it.

If this shit stands we have become an evil people.