Rules of America’s rule of law
Via: Glen Greenwald>
* If you torture people or eavesdrop on Americans without the warrants required by the criminal law, you receive Look-Forward Imperial Immunity.
* If you shoot and kill unarmed rescuers of the wounded while occupying their country and severely wound their unarmed children sitting in a van — or if you authorize that conduct — your actions are commended.
* If you help wreck the world economy with fraud and cause hundreds of millions of people untold suffering, you collect tens of millions of dollars in bonuses.
* If you disclose to the world evidence of war crimes, government lawbreaking, or serious corruption, or otherwise embarrass the U.S., you will be swiftly prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and face decades in prison.
Referencing point 2: the rescuers were evacuating formerly armed, non-uniformed combatants. The children weren’t visible to the pilots–and in turn had their lives saved by US soldiers.
I won’t say that things aren’t seriously messed up. I do say that those Apache pilots did the right thing.
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