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What boggles my mind is there was never the same effort put into Japanese war criminals.
Complicated names, hard to remember and they all look alike.
More importantly "we" were complicit. We got a "conditional" unconditional surrender which left the emperor in place as a symbolic leader and we participated in the fiction that he was in no way connected to war crimes and had no knowledge of any done in his name. This is of course absurd as he knew everything so we couldn't convict a lot of people without going up a ladder that ended with him.
Even worse when it came to atrocities at the most severe level like Unit 731, we wanted their data, so we gave complete immunity to Shiro Ishi and everyone else involved as a trade. Keep in mind these people engaged in live dissection of children so they could track the progress of their bio weapons. It's one of the most shameful things the US ever did and it goes at least as high as MacArthur.
There should be no statute of limitations on this shit. My only concern is, do we actually have a guy who did something more than guard the gate? Because we let a LOT of people go in Germany, during the 40s who did much more than just guard the gate. Hell we employed some of them. But 5 years is light compared to what happened to those people in those camps so if he did more than guard the gate, he had it coming.
Also somebody mentioned Mengele, sadly he lived to the age of 67, pretty much in the open with family visiting and died of natural causes.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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