"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Obama: "We Tortured Some Folks"
Yet, nobody is in jail. Torture is illegal. It is a felony. Even with a presidential admission carried by every major news network in the world, there are no real consequences. Oh, an expendable soldier or two may have took some heat and some time, but that was just theater, distraction. No upper level policy people, people giving those lowly, expendable soldiers their orders (on the books, official orders and off the books, unofficial directives) were arrested, no politicians with decision-making power faced felony charges, were removed from office, or anything even slightly resembling consequences for criminal behavior. The entire system, top to bottom, from the president down to the State's front line local fee extraction and enforcement troops, the local thug pigs, is riddled with rot.
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