David Corn: Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal.

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11. Kissinger is the perfect example of why we can't have nice things.

Too many criminals, people guilty of the most heinous types of stuff, like bombing children at hospitals and schools, live out their lives as if they never did anything wrong. How is that a thing? There is no mechanism in our criminal justice system to hold them accountable. They don't have to answer questions or explain themselves to the public. Those in power, political and business, monetize and factor in, transactional-ize, criminality as a matter of course, like it's some sort of relative-association-erasure free pass from responsibility; a long-distance separation from accountability paid in full. Hell, it was in the budget anyway. The worse the crime, the more closely held the myth of innocence. That's what the public gets, manufactured mythology while you wait. Take a number and they'll get right to you.

Maybe we need a "Today's Guilty Pilgrim" weekly reality show (maybe daily). Where the facts of a public official person's official crimes are aired, and they get their 15 minutes of fame for what they actually did, complete with the bullshit reasons/excuses for how they escaped justice, instead of some myth lost in the mist of mistrust. I think it would not cause more harm than the current horrifying silence.