re: #83 Myrddin Emrys

Laws, courts, and rules exist for the preservation and protection of the society (societies in the case of international courts) in which they exist. Criminal law hasn’t been about “morality” for centuries (sharia excepted). What benefit does our society or Germany’s (or any other) gain from the prosecution of this man?

As for “victims” (or, I should say, relatives of victims), have you ever held a grudge for 60 years? Have you ever even held a grudge for 10 years? If you have, you know that at some point, the grudge is about you, and not about what made you develop the grudge. Someone who has been holding out for a prosecution for 60 years probably isn’t going to get much in the way of closure.

Forgetting all about the ‘morality’ for the moment (I’m pretty sure “thou shalt not murder” is still one of the 10 commandments laid down to Moses,) this isn’t about a ‘grudge.’ It has been almost 8 years since 4 planes were crashed into the WTC, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Although I’m sure that most of the relatives and friends of the victims are still carrying a ‘grudge’. If, in two years, Bin Laden has still not been caught or killed but he shows up at the US Embassy in Pakistan in Oct of 2011, should we push for extradition? After all, it was less than 5000 who were killed on 9/11/2001.