re: #358 Four More Tears

There was no hand-wringing over whether or not James Holmes should be read his rights.

Adam Lanza’s rampage was not treated like an act of war.

Jared Lee Loughner. Tim McVeigh. I could on. No, these criminals, all of them, killed more people than the Boston Bombers. So what’s so different here that it’s an “act of war,” hmm?

The difference is politics. The Republican party is out of power, desperate and the people making noise, say Graham, are scared that the emotional babies who have taken over their party don’t think he’s enough of a screaming toddler.

Of course these people are aware of the obvious point I made, that terrorism is a great enough threat that at its highest potential, a criminal court system is not the appropriate tool for it, but they’re jumping the gun because they’re hysterical wingnuts who fear the precedent of sane people being in charge more than they fear anything else.