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Edited on Tue Apr-21-09 09:43 PM by FourScore
Rejoice, Americans! For a New Age is upon us.
The No Accountability Years have arrived! Recognize them for what they are and squeeze every ounce of criminal activity out of them that you possibly can, for moving on is now all the rage! Look forward! Do not dwell on past transgressions! Retribution would merely be a distraction.
Have you bankrupted your too-big-to-fail company with betting practices unimaginable to the swiftest bookie? No problem, ask for billions of taxpayer dollars with a bailout and continue the shell game as before. And while you’re at it, give yourself a great big bonus and a multi-million dollar remodeled office for a job well-done.
Have you waterboarded another individual in the attempt to ascertain information, perchance? I’m sure you were just following your lawyer’s interpretation of the law – no biggy. In fact, let’s give that lawyer just what he deserves -- a lifetime post as a US Justice! And while we’re at it—let’s give his assistant and cohort a tenured position at a major University so that he may teach his interpretation of Constitutional Law to the young and pliable minds of today’s youth (tomorrow’s legal scholars). There he can detail, in all his scholarly wisdom, why the First and Fourth Amendments of the US Constitution (that pesky Article of Freedom) were utterly unnecessary and the Geneva Conventions are quaint.
Eavesdropped and wiretapped on your fellow Americans for personal or political gain? Immunity is the only way to go. After all, it’s all in the past; tsk tsk, you shouldn’t have done that and now let’s move on.
Jails are filled with those who broke the law, some crimes more heinous than others. But why should we hold these people accountable? Why don’t we just empty all the federal penitentiaries and dismiss all the current law suits? Unshackle them, I say! Yes, what they did was bad, but it is not a time for retribution. It is time to look forward and move on.
Trust me, in years to come, historians will look upon this time in our nation’s history with a sense of patriotic nostalgia and espouse on the wisdom of the No Accountability Years. Their voices shall quiver with the kind of overwhelming emotion one only gets when speaking of True Greatness. Imagine the message passed down to those wide-eyed and innocent children of tomorrow when they learn that years of shameful criminal activity went unpunished for the greater good. (Don’t forget to mention, however, how vigilantly we nailed that one guy for getting a blowjob!)
People died. Lives destroyed. Intelligence manipulated. Torture of the finest medieval quality was implemented. Citizens were wiretapped, and sovereign nations invaded on false evidence. And yes, that was bad. That was so very, very bad. But we are choosing to do nothing about it with the argument that our nation need not be exposed to the injury of justice.
I know that there are those who are unhappy with this decision. They say we are a nation of laws, not men. But such cries of truth are drowned out by the tension-inducing volume of bloviated talking heads. Washington heavy weights make the talk-show rounds explaining their condemnation of such illegal behavior while rejecting any prosecution of the perpetrators. And the best part of all? They’re doing it for us.
So, there we have it. We should let it go. Fellow citizens, seek not the drudgery of digging up the past like a mass grave. Leave the littered remnants of Truth, Justice and our precious Constitution buried where they were lain. Ignore precedence. We have enough problems to face -- problems our nation faces primarily due to the illegal and immoral behavior of those who need to be prosecuted.
Welcome, America, to the No Accountability Years.
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