Failure to execute Cheney = rule of law nonexistent in U.S.

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The 1996 War Crimes Act is plain. Those who order the torture of prisoners to death are to be executed. Cheney has confessed to said crimes. The refusal of authorities to prosecute him for this shows that the rule of law does not exist, that elites get a pass. The US is becoming a country where elites are above the law and increasingly immune to taxation also.

Congress and Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 as an amendment to make their specific activities legal under US law.

I can only imagine the trial that would have taken place, Cheney would have been found unaccountable for the actions of the torturers that resulted in the deaths of their prisoners and his order didn't explicitly state to kill them. He would have cited that his apparent 'confessions' were non-literal phrases, motivations or misinterpreted like saying, "Make him talk at all costs". It's textbook policy to always keep the problem down in the lower chain of command by cunning wordplay with how you deliver orders and the unprovable insinuations that lie in them. As infuriating that sounds, it's merely business as usual.

Silly rabbit. War crimes are never committed by our people, only our enemies.

ruveyn

Cheney/Bush/republicans won't be held accountable because Obama/Clinton/Democrats don't want to be held accountable for their own crimes for which their are many. They're both complicit.

And it's only natural to assume they'd want to keep their hands clean from such crimes too.

Cheney shot a guy in the face, and the guy publicly apologized for the "trouble he was causing Cheney". The only other people on the face of this earth who could pull that off are all third-world dictators.

People were tortured to death at Cheney's order before 2006, so that means that needle of Terre Haute is required for the rule of law to stand.

That was an accident. If the victim of the shooting chose not to sue Cheney then Cheney is off the hook.

ruveyn

That's a little black and white, isn't it? Can you ever imagine yourself shooting someone in the face, accidentally or not (barring self defense of course) and being "off the hook"? Cause I sure as hell can't. That kind of privilege is reserved for those who are genuinely and legitimately feared.

Hunting is a dangerous activity. Accidents happen. People who go hunting ought to know this.

ruveyn

He was hunting quail in a stocked reserve. And regardless of the activity, shooting people in the face has repercussions, which do not generally involve being apologized to.

You are wrong. Cheney apologized and the other guy did not sue. End of case.

ruveyn

Apparently not

The guy felt sorry about how Cheney was treated by the left-wing drive-by media.

Interesting discussion about Cheney

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... htning_rod