Not unlike the guy who leaked the Panama Papers.
Still, too bad that more people don't care more about the greater good than themselves.
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As recently ago as the late 1970s, someone in America could leak the Pentagon Papers, be protected by the activist left who recognized how important that kind of thing was and also major institutions like newspapers, and then he could show up and volunteer to stand trial for the leak, and win, and go a free man because the facts were on his side.
This is what I mean when I say that I don't think modern America can keep a democracy. There are just too few people involved who care about things that need someone to care about them, if the dream of the people who started America is to survive here. But it used to not be that way, and not that long ago.
Yeah, I mentioned the Panama Papers because the guy who leaked them was murdered afterward.
The Pentagon Papers leaker wasn't murdered, though the guy who perpetrated My Lai only got house arrest in the end, and Colin Powell, who made sure said war criminal wasn't punished, is still revered here in the US and even could have been president at one point had he decided to run.
The Pentagon Papers leaker wasn’t murdered
Not only that, he was actively protected by the system. Today he'd be in federal prison or worse.
the guy who perpetrated My Lai only got house arrest in the end
My Lai was a big inflection point in terms of people coming down on which side or other in terms of where they stand.
The system is just people. Always has been, always will be.
I read from a soldier who served with Lt. Calley (the man who ordered the massacre.) He said he was just a deeply depraved individual. He said in war, you find out who you really are, and for some people they have this darkness inside them that goes deep and deep, and war just lets it unleash and nurtures it. He talked about other horrifying things Calley had done, that he never got in trouble for, he was basically a serial killer free to do whatever he wanted and protected by this awesome power of the US military the entire time to do it all in broad daylight.
Hugh Thompson was the helicopter commander who landed his helicopter between the Americans and Vietnamese and ordered his men to fire on the Americans if they tried to advance. They obeyed everything he told them to do, he stopped the massacre. When he came back the whole country thought he was a traitor. A lot of people wanted him brought up on charges. It never happened, they decided to give him a medal instead. But they lied and said they were giving him a medal for honor in engagements with the Vietnamese. He turned it down. He like a lot of veterans at that point was disgusted with the war, disgusted with the US government and all its people who supported it all. Eventually, years later, they compromised and gave him a medal for more or less what he actually did. That one he accepted.
And, as is tradition, Calley escaped any serious punishment. He lived peacefully in Florida until the end of his days. I just looked it up, he died last year, in April.
It's all just people. People decide to kill, people decide to punish or let free. People are the foundation, with the decisions they make.
As recently ago as the late 1970s, someone in America could leak the Pentagon Papers, be protected by the activist left who recognized how important that kind of thing was and also major institutions like newspapers, and then he could show up and volunteer to stand trial for the leak, and win, and go a free man because the facts were on his side.
Yeah, but that's not profitable so oh well guess we're fucked
You mean Panama Papers?
Yup. I'll edit that. Thank you.
She was found alive and well, but it's alleged she may have been considering suicide.
I don't trust those allegations, nor the "suicide note". For all we know it said "gone for a walk on the beach", which it appears is what she was doing.
Why she look like Hillary?
I thought this was some kind of weird right-wing disruptive tangent, but I looked at the photo and holy shit you are right. For whatever weird reason she really does.
Seconding the "get fucked asshoooowait.... What the crap?"