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In reply to the discussion: We're fucked for the foreseeable future... [View all]tblue
(16,350 posts)20. Like Ferguson: No consequences => Blowback
The "no consequences" is what endangers us morally and physically. Not unlike when police kill unarmed people with impunity. It's not only the crimes they have committed; it's the impunity that burns. It damages us and pisses off people, and rightly so. And those scars don't heal.
Isis is loving this. No consequences for our torture? Oh there will be consequences.
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Not to mention many of the Khmer Rouge received light sentences for their atrocities
derby378
Dec 2014
#2
People here forget that Pol Pot was considered the USA's dear and trusted ally!
truedelphi
Dec 2014
#9
With prosecutions we can secure America's future. This is an opportunity for Dems to crush the R's
grahamhgreen
Dec 2014
#6
Why didn't we pardon the Nazis at Nuremberg? Why aren't we pardoning them now?
nichomachus
Dec 2014
#8
I will be 67 next month. I thought the US would have overcome the racism I got beat for protesting.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2014
#15
I sure as hell hope Obama and the rest of the Democrats who have been kid gloving this shit do not
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#22