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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 10:30 PM
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19. Wanna know the end game?
I posted this the other week in another thread - and I've posted the same thing before, more or less, over the years.


Someone in Congress will proclaim, "We'll make new laws" ...and then some will cheer, "See! They're doing something about it!" - conveniently overlooking the fact that it was never - ever - about a lack of laws in place - but the lack of enforcing those laws and holding people accountable when they broke those laws.

Someone in D.C. will thunderously roar, "Never again!" and you'll hear the crowd cheer....all the while the guilty go about their lives, comfortable in the knowledge that they got away with it. And the only lesson learned benefits the future wanna-be tyrants, who know exactly what the American people will allow and turn a blind eye to...they know exactly what they can get away with...and next time - and there will be a next time - it will be worse. And why not? - with absolutely no accountability for their crimes.

As more and more time passes only those who truly desire justice will still be demanding it - and more and more voices will raise themselves against accountability because - and we've all heard these excuses before ..."That's the past", "We can't change the past", "We can't right all the wrongs of the past" - and isn't it ever so convenient to wait and wait until so much time passes that people feel ever so comfortable saying those things?....always overlooking the fact that nothing was ever done about those abuses and those crimes when they first took place.

And all the while, America will portray itself as a beacon of light, the champion of human rights, and the defender of freedom.


but I could be wrong.
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