Guffaw wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
Every President seems to pardon pieces of shit.Yes. People who did committed crimes but had (misguided) good intentions (eco-terrorists or social justice warriors who didn't hurt anyone). People who committed non violent crimes and have a sympathetic story. People who belong to 'upper society' and did rich people crimes - i.e. insider trading, embezzling
But people who use a military action as an excuse to get off on murdering civilians, including women and children? People who execute and tortured prisoners? That this is real war crimes stuff right there. And by minimizing it with a simple 'murder charge', or worse, pardoning, it makes the US Military look like a force for evil. The bad guy.
You realize of course that the trial continues for SEAL Gallagher? And that the evidence against him is rather thin? Or are you ready to convict him based on media accounts right now? I don’t really understand this desire to just assume that Gallagher is guilty and then proceed from there. Hey, maybe he is and maybe he isn’t, but from everything I’ve read, there is no smoking gun and there is a lot of conflicting testimony, not to mention witnesses who got together ahead of time to make sure that their stories lined up.
ETA: It’s pretty apparent from this thread that you’ve determined that Gallagher is guilty, period. You don’t seem particularly concerned whether or not a trial actually finds him guilty or not; you’ve read enough media reports to make your mind up. And we all know how accurate the media is on these things.
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