My wakeup call to the reality of the whitewashing of state criminals was Nixon's funeral. Of course most things uttered at funerals tend to be ludicrous religious cant, but it takes a perverted political power structure to turn base indecency into something akin to an honorable life. Actually, religion is pretty good at doing this too.

I want to thank you for providing me with another of those canary in a coalmine examples of how truly toxic 21st century America's behavior is, useful when trying to get others to quickly see things more clearly. Assange works, and Israel serves this purpose as well. How our political criminal class treats our political criminal class-members once they die is equally illustrative.