I don’t want to go on a rant, but every time we say we’ve changed since the 60’/70’s/80’s/etc I ask okay, did the perpetrators of crimes back then be made to pay for their crimes? How can we say we’ve changed if we allow people who committed those crimes to walk scot free? This extends even to crimes committed against foreign nations; if we don’t prosecute the guilty, how can we say we changed? It’s just making excuses and protecting the guilty.
Now it’s all coming home to roost.
If you want to close the chapter on this crime or that, you must prosecute the guilty, or else you create the conditions like today where people shrug their shoulders and go on with their lives. The Iraq war was a crime, was anyone in government taken to court for it? The boarding schools for indigenous people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? The experimentations on people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? Bush Senior’s response to shooting down an Iranian passenger jet and murdering people was “I’m not an apologize for America kind of guy”, and LIBS were defending him when he died. On and on.
We don’t have a culture of holding politicians to account, and now when it’s a politician we all hate, we feel it. We spent decades saying “that was in the past” and now we’re seeing what that actually means.
I don’t want to go on a rant, but every time we say we’ve changed since the 60’/70’s/80’s/etc I ask okay, did the perpetrators of crimes back then be made to pay for their crimes? How can we say we’ve changed if we allow people who committed those crimes to walk scot free? This extends even to crimes committed against foreign nations; if we don’t prosecute the guilty, how can we say we changed? It’s just making excuses and protecting the guilty.
Now it’s all coming home to roost.
If you want to close the chapter on this crime or that, you must prosecute the guilty, or else you create the conditions like today where people shrug their shoulders and go on with their lives. The Iraq war was a crime, was anyone in government taken to court for it? The boarding schools for indigenous people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? The experimentations on people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? Bush Senior’s response to shooting down an Iranian passenger jet and murdering people was “I’m not an apologize for America kind of guy”, and LIBS were defending him when he died. On and on.
We don’t have a culture of holding politicians to account, and now when it’s a politician we all hate, we feel it. We spent decades saying “that was in the past” and now we’re seeing what that actually means.