Make your points without being an asshole. You get one warning.

You upset me a bit with that comment about “Garfunkel hair”.

If you know of something that goes with an open black vest better than a corona of golden curls atop a high forehead, well…you have my attention.

You are a liar as well as a hack, it seems. Keep on trying to force someone who has dared disagree with the Doctrine into mental treatment, though.

Self-defence is an 18 month sentence now, huh? If she’d shot him, she’d probably never have been charged. As it is, one wonders about the guy’s political connections…

I discern from your post that you harbor the infantile notion that if one disagrees with the statutory consequences of, somehow people behave outrageously if they fail to give perpetrators a free pass to commit any crime that might be touched by the statute. We who do not suffer from your particular form of impairment recognize the nonsense of this position.

Your misstatement of fact does not help to rehabilitate your foolishness; not only *can* “these things be separated,” the fact is that the prosecution offered to separate them. The prosecutors attempted to avoid any excessive punishment by offering Ms. Alexander a plea deal that would have included a recommended sentence of as little as 18 months, which could have been still further reduced or converted, but she declined their offer. The fact is that there were available mechanisms whereby this “outrageous prosecution” could have been brought without invoking any excessive penalties.

What you wrote has the ring of: “I enjoy licking my dog’s soiled perineum, and clown pants make me fidgety whenever I…” Oops, sorry, I guess I found your prose a bit too inspirational for a moment! BTW, if you would like a referral to a program in your area for people with cognitive disabilities, let me know, and I will put you in touch with someone who can direct you to assistance providers in your area.

12 minutes. What a gaggle of tools.

In the meantime let me remind you: these things cannot be separated. The penalty called for in a prosecution is part of that prosecution, even and especially when the minimum sentence is set by law.

What you wrote has the ring of: “I like throwing my fist in people’s faces, but I find broken noses to be excessive and inconvenient.”

He gave legal advice, odious advice regarding horrible things, but materially he did nothing more than write papers. I remember when the torture thing broke and they tried to pin the whole operation on low ranking grunts, as if they all magically decided to use the same tactics across several locations to completely different people of their own free will.

In the whole torture scandal the only people even coming close to getting punished are the grunt marines ordered to do it, and they guy wrote papers offering a legal defense for it. Everyone else in the chain of decision making and command is apparently immune from legal repercussions. In all likelihood Yoo’s memo’s were after the fact anyways with the actual torture program already being implemented, or at least well on its way, with the legal defense being an afterthought.

So many people deserve sever punishment more than Yoo deserves a lawsuit for legal advice.

But…if there was a button that I could push to deliver a simultaneous TASER shock to every American who has voted for a major party candidate since 1924, I would totally do it. That’s who really deserved to be punished for the deeds of Yoo, Holder, et al.

I’m aware of all the people who were subject to “enhanced interrogation,” but I was not aware of at least a hundred-odd people held by the US tortured to death. (Rendition may be a different matter.)

Waterboarding still strikes me as not as bad as the typical conditions at a SuperMax prison, nor as bad as killing someone with a drone on the same flimsy evidence. Yoo is presumably not being more harshly investigated because of the possibility for accusations of hypocrisy.

Color me shocked.

It comes as no surprise that the most clear cut case of needing to indict a cop that I’ve seen in a long time results in no indictment at all. THat mundane should have just sat down and shut up. It isn’t the cop’s fault for insisting on escalating the situation by getting more forceful and violent, instead of calming the situation by maybe bringing the man’s family members to the door to talk some sense into him (they were there and they had offered to do just that). An emotionally disturbed man, an angry man, doesn’t respond well to having his door broken down, you idiots. But you just couldn’t take the disrespect inherent in having a mundane refuse to open his door when you commanded it to be open, could you? YOu couldn’t just relax and talk it out with him like adults, right? No, you had to get your mundane sticks and spray out and start abusing the poor old guy, then electrocute him, then shoot him to death because he wouldn’t open his door and (gasp!) actually resisted you breaking into his apartment. Jesus, how in the hell do any of you sleep at night?

But at least the man got the help he needed – oh, wait, no he didn’t, he got shot and killed. Huh.

If we take away Yoo’s protection, we are also taking away the protection of every defense lawyer in the country.

I’m sure the LE community would love that.