Here's a significant ongoing problem: Dick Cheney is not in prison (even though he should be in prison). First: some light humor!
I wrote a joke a while ago. It's a great joke because it has appeal across the entire political spectrum. Liberal, moderate, or delusional psychotic everyone can enjoy this joke. It goes a-like a-this: "right now Washington DC is full of the smartest people in America trying their hardest to figure out the best way to the make the American People's lives better."
Ha ha ha but seriously folks the following body is entitled Dick Cheney is a War Criminal who Needs To Go To Prison:
Ha ha ha ha ha I'm still laughing about that great, great joke but no really I'm not even kidding Dick Cheney is a criminal who should be in prison. No that's not right. People who always steal potatoes from the weekend potato market are criminals. People who get loaded and who launch their rocket powered dark energy car weapons into the petting zoo at daybreak are criminals. Dick Cheney is a War Criminal. Y'know, one of those people that seemed to be everywhere after World War II but tapered off after then because conditionals statements are so0o0OOo0ooo difficult to understand and so Nazis are War Criminals then calling someone a War Criminal is the same as calling someone a Nazi and Dick Cheney The War Criminal walks free on a technicality of Godwin's Law.
I watch clips of that man giving speeches gripping the podium, his posture hunched under the unholy weight of the dark netherbeast which perches upon his shoulders its wicked maw agape dripping bile and mindpoisons and screaming its soulwilting shrieks of unending malediction and contempt upon the unseeing cameras too innocent, not calibrated to detect unrestrained evil and he's smiling that horrible strokevictim smile of his while he sweats under the hot lights and the weight of the devilbird and the eyes of the press and he harkens back to the advice of his public speaking mentor and all around pal Agaliarep who told him "Dickie my favorite thrall when you must degrade yourself to speak to the loathsome public you must tamp down your retch by imagining them naked and flayed along with their family and pets" but the evil won't show to the visual spectrum and we can't see the monster and its spined, wormlike abdomen and its screaming and spawning young ideas which crawl down his Cheney's shirt flow into his bloodstream from the secret hatch in the open sore under his collar and they can't see it WE CAN'T SEE IT but when he talks I feel it I FEEL IT in my spine that man is not like the wandering idiot he's not the same as the goodnatured shallow fratboy Hey BigBigBuddy Hey Hi Bro Hey y'all let's go kill and eat a hog y'all what do you mean I kept saying 'pubic policy' y'all well Thank God for spellchecker y'all Ho ho ho you know he's not the same as his boss this guy...
This guy...
Well alright y'allright maybe I'm exaggerating a bit maybe Cheney doesn't pal around with Angra Mainyu but it doesn't make sense to me. Y'know Robert McNamara? The man who, y'know, he and Curtis LeMay said outloud when they were firebombing Japan "if we lose we'll all be prosecuted as war criminals?" Y'know that guy? The one lots of people blame for lots of Vietnam War? The one who was never prosecuted for war crimes he admitted to? Well y'know what he did bad things hell he did EVIL things but if you look at him you listen to him you read his writing and you can tell there's a soul down there somewhere I honestly think if you grind up his life you and mix it with some tar you can pave yourself a smooth path to the Hell that he won't up in. When I see Dick Cheney I can't any hint of the morality and good intentions that helped make millions suffer. I don't see Hard Choices, a poor father forced to turn away beggars so his family doesn't starve. I don't even see a father killing beggars and using their bodies to feed his starving family. It's more like a man executing everyone who walks by his house, selling their bodies to cannibals to buy money for bullets then passing a secret law that declaring everyone who gets shot to officially have been a beggar who was lowering property value and hating America and the freedom she stands for and yeah it's redundant but the dead panhandler was also a registered Democrat and a drug addict.
Try saying this out loud right now: "Dick Cheney is a War Criminal who needs to go to prison forever."
What's this strange emotion?
If you look at any of the stories of aggressive wars and warrantless wiretapping and ignoring subpoenas and outing CIA agents and firing attorneys and committing all kinds of acts of treason and every single thing that man did he did it as the Vice President he did it all as the second highest representative for US for you and me. When this man was committing his treasons, when he was lieing when he was stealing from the poor to give to the rich when he was locking away Americans without a trial when he was what's the newest rumor sending assassination death squads wherever he pleased? when he was doing all of these things he was DOING IT AS ONE OF THE FOREMOST REPRESENTATIVES FOR ALL AMERICANS FOR YOU AND FOR ME and oh my In God We Trust that makes me so angry and as long as he gets away with it feels like I am letting him get away with it like I'm an accomplice as long as he isn't prosecuted because Oh Americans can't be war criminals then we are allowing him to get away with it I don't understand I don't understand I don't understand. Is this in fear of the backlash that made Clinton so popular when the Republicans tried to impeach him? Do politicians think the public will find out Cheney's details and feel like he's being unfairly persecuted? Why is he still free to walk around without an orange jumpsuit? It is so god damn incredibly shameful that Americans Who Actually Care About Everything This Country Is Supposed To Stand For have not yet thrown him in jail forever Dick Cheney is a War Criminal who Needs To Go To Prison