"We tortured some folks" = "We committed crimes"

[whatchamacallit]

Where are the prosecutions as per the rule of law?

[KingCharlemagne]

1. There are now at least two systems of law in operation in this country. One system for

working class and poor people (see Ferguson, MO) and another system for the powerful, well-to-do and connected. I'll leave it to you to decide into which camp the (alleged) torturers fall.

[tecelote]

5. You mean there is a system of law for for the wealthy and powerful?

I haven't seen it.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. The 'system' that allows a Jaime Dimon to call up Eric Holder and

negotiate a larger financial settlement to make criminal charges 'go away.' The poor and working class don't have access to that system.

Please allow Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone to explain:

Because you can't send hundreds of thousands of people to court every year on broken-taillight-type misdemeanors and expect people to sit still while yet another coroner-declared homicide goes unindicted. It just won't hold. If the law isn't the same everywhere, it's not legitimate. And in these neighborhoods, what we have doesn't come close to looking like one single set of laws anymore.

When that perception sinks in, it's not just going to be one Eric Garner deciding that listening to police orders "ends today." It's going to be everyone. And man, what a mess that's going to be.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-police-in-america-are-becoming-illegitimate-20141205?page=2

Just substitute 'torture and crimes against humanity' for 'coroner-declared homicide'.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Are you being too sanctimonious? n/t

[whatchamacallit]

4. Apparently so

Universal justice is such a quaint, pre 9/11 concept.

[LondonReign2]

3. If one is fearful, then laws don't count

[bigtree]

6. We raped some folks. We electrocuted some folks. We murdered some folks.

Abby Martin ‏@AbbyMartin 1h1 hour ago

"We tortured some folks. We raped some folks. We electrocuted some folks. We murdered some folks. We droned a whole bunch of folks." #obama

[whatchamacallit]

8. Wow... +1

[bigwillq]

9. 'Merica.

Good find.

[polichick]

7. America's new motto: "Liberty and justice, my ass!"