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In reply to the discussion: US Voters Say Snowden Is Whistle-Blower-Not Traitor-Quinnipiac University Nat'l Poll-Big Shift [View all]HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)easier to hold people accountable for crossing them. I was not crying over Bush "not going to jail." I was decrying the fact that Bush, Cheney and the entire Junta will escape accountability in the form of investigation, indictment, trial and verdict (and, at the very end, a sentence).
If Snowden crossed any line (arguable), then surely Bush and Cheney crossed the chasm between civilization and barbarity.
You can call a desire to see justice done 'naive.' Myself, I prefer to think that no man is above the law, even though reality often convinces me otherwise, particularly when those who face the bar of justice lack adequate funds.
Want to know whe people don't take Obama seriously any longer? Because he chases Snowden with a ferocity unseen in the annals of modern man, all the while declaring he won't 'scramble jets.' Meanwhile, an admitted torturer (Cheney) openly brags about his war crimes on national television and there's not so much as an investigation.
BTW, I'm not a "liberal," I'm a radical.