re: #320 Martryr Cookie Monster

The point is that the US record in regard to punishing the military massacre perpetrators shows that the US trials aren’t fair in absolute terms

There are other soldiers who have committed murder and other crimes that have been punished, though.

Common sense not fair. The perpetrators still walk basically unpunished. My Lai may have happened decades ago, but it’s a datapoint, along with Haditha.

But so are other trials, right?

or whether it is crappy due to incompetent people who use the system, or a combination of these factors, this still amounts to system that has produced unfair trials of massacre perpetrators against foreign civilians.

It’s also convicted people for the murder of civilians, though.

If he gets life one way or another (whether it be prison or psychatric institution), I will say that the times are changing in this respect.

This disturbs me, coming from you. I’ve never seen you prejudge someone to that extent before. There are possibilities that, while they wouldn’t exonerate him, would place this in an entirely different context. Like if he had been given heavy amounts of amphetamines, as has happened in the US army before, causing a psychotic break.