Subject: Wesley Clark has tortured and murdered my dad |
From: "E. Komes" <es.komes@versatel.nl> |
Date: 7/27/11, 05:12 |
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I am very much aware that the description of the situation on my blog is not at all objective. Premeditated murder will do that to you. I find it impossible to stay objective. I want Clark on the electric chair, even though I fully understand that that is not realistic. If the guy had not worked for Pentagon and NATO he would end up in prison for life for what he has done. Instead he finds it the most normal thing in the world to get away with torture and first degree murder and run around lying about it. I find that unacceptable. And it is amazing, in a very negative way, how nearly impossible it is so far to motivate any district attorney in Europe to investigate the case. As if it is totally accepted, that if the Pentagon or NATO want a private person dead in Europe, the European police just runs out and helps to carry it out and cover it up. And remember this happened before 9/11 (in 1999). What has changed so far is that at least I do find people who can imagine that the US Government would be capable of torture and murder. In 1999 I would have ended up in a psychiatric hospital for trying to make the case. No one wanted to believe it then. That has changed. But by now people are still too scared to investigate. Hopefully that will change at one point in the future. If governments in the US and Europe are this corrupt and the media do not dare to investigate then we really do live in a very dangerous society.