| Posted: 12 October 2008 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | 6
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There is a precendent for this. In the past decade, a number of elderly white supremacists who dodged justice in state courts in the 1960s have been indicted and convicted on federal charges, due to heinous crimes they committed during the Civil Rights Era. And rightfully so -- justice deferred is still better late than never. Yes, most of these white supremacists had become "respected citizens," but they still needed to answer for their crimes.
Heck, we occasionally still see Nazi war criminals prosecuted. Again, I applaud the efforts to bring those evil men to justice, even though it is 60 years overdue.
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But they actually killed people. Call it dumb luck or what have you but that makes a huge difference in prosecuting somebody for a forty year old crime.
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