We Are Better Than This

[AndyTiedye]

6. OP is being Inconsistent

We didn't do this: …

No, we didn't, and we were never in a position to prevent it.

And if we shelter those who committed these crimes, if we give them aid and deny their victims justice, then we really are no better than they are.

I'm pretty damn sure that none of us are sheltering Dick Cheney or any of his cohorts in our homes, and none of us were ever in a position to prosecute them either.

ask yourself why Henry Kissinger is a free and very wealthy man while Trayvon Martin is dead.

It is far from clear how WE could bring Henry Kissinger to justice. Just getting out there and "demanding" it is not enough, we did rather a lot of that back when he was committing his war crimes.

Nor is it clear how we were supposed to prevent Trayvon Martin from getting shot. While many of us predicted that "stand your ground" laws would be broadly interpreted as "open season on minorities", there is not a lot we could do to prevent states other than our own from passing such laws.