Reply #38: Of course not [View All]

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The military decides what is and isn't at issue, and by excluding any evidence of its own wrongdoing, makes sure that its war crimes stay out of a court of law. Well, there are courts and there are courts. Some of them follow regular rules of procedure, evidence and witness testimony. But our military has unilaterally determined that it won't submit to any other regular authority, so irregular, ad hoc authorities, who may not be quite so scrupulous about following any recognized rules of procedure or even rendering judgment against the actual perpetrators, will visit retribution on (probably) whoever they can reach that is or represents the actual perpetrators.

And we the people, who will be the ones most likely in line to bear the brunt of that, can do nothing to hold our own government and military accountable for their crimes, because that would be lookin' backwards to the past instead of forward to the future. But we can lock up and torture anyone who exposes these crimes. History will not judge us kindly, and we won't deserve it.