Agents of the United States government committed these crimes. Other agents of the same manure-free government investigated and published their findings, in graphic detail. Now, we are in the process of getting more agents of the very same un-shit-covered government to act on that report.

I fail to see how ruminant poop would improve the situation. Must be a French thing.

> I fail to see how ruminant poop would improve the situation.

Contrast:

Headline: Blah Blah Government Agents Blah Boring Blah Torture Blah More Big Words Blah Blah

with:

Headline: Protesting Citizens Dump Tons of Manure at White House for Blah Blah Government Agents Blah Boring...

I can tell you from experience that the second one raises global awareness of the issue in a heartbeat and would put a lot more pressure onto slimy government accomplices to clean up their act.

And that's how poop would help the situation. I'm sure you knew that and was just trying to be funny, though.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot this great point:

> [The US Government] committed these crimes

> [The US Government] investigated and published their findings

> [The US Government] are in the process of getting more agents [...] to act on that report

This is hilarious. Corporations needs regulation because we don't trust the free market with all its different agents to regulate themselves, but you trust this one monolithic organization called the US Government to police and prosecute itself when the very crimes it committed are evidence enough that it can't? You should do stand-up.

My point was fairly clear, and the phrasing you omitted turned my argument into a straw man.

The US Government is not a monolith. It is a collection of individuals and organizations acting independently and at odds with one another. This is by design.

Government passes laws to regulate themselves.

People who work for the government pass laws to regulate what they can and can't do in the role of government worker.

It is a monolith in the sense that there is no non-government entity helping them in this endeavor. They make the rules, they enforce the rules, they investigate misdeeds and they decide if people are criminals or not. That's why bankers rarely go to jail. I did not make a strawman - read what I said again and wake up.

I'm sorry. If this were France?

To be explicit: what is there in the pace of the French acknowledgment of its actions during the Algerian War of Independence that makes you think that France would now be in an uproar about the actions of 2001 and on?

Well 1968 happened, I would expect there to be massive demonstrations as there have been in the past on much smaller issues.