Monday, May 02, 2011

Not That It Matters Much, But Here Is What I Think

I guess I'm supposed to say something about the murder & burial at sea of Osama bin Laden.   Well, here goes:  If justice was done, as President Obama stated last night, it appears to me that justice comes from the barrel of a gun.  The glee that some commentators expressed last night because "we" had the body was creepy.  bin Laden was an asshole, a bad guy, but I doubt he was Hitler.  It's always OK to call people like bin Laden Hitler, but not people responsible for many, many more deaths of men, women, & children (I'm thinking of you, Bu$hCo.).  Osama is gone, but I doubt his money is gone, or his family in Saudi Arabia, or Saudi Arabia, for that matter.  Let us not forget that the majority of the attackers on nine-eleven were from Saudi Arabia.  If, in fact, justice is done by violence, then what's the point of a system of laws?  A system where the most powerful, the state, is required to prove their case to a jury of other people?  While I don't grieve at the death of Osama, I do grieve for the future of America if, in fact, justice will continue to be done with bullets.

2 comments:

nonheroicvet said...

Glad to see that Ol' Barak follows the nonheroicvet maxim that if someone f---s with you they must pay a price.

reflectionswi said...

It's a sad thing but sometimes there is no other way. He had the chance to surrender and decided to go to his 27 virgins.