Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Bob Ackley:

 TW>>>> So you thinbk those that have been sucessful at Hiding
 TW>>>> should just get off with nothing??  Just Kiss and Make up
 TW>>>> like NOTHING happened??

 BK>>>  How about "persecute" 60+ years after the fact? Persecute?

 BK>>>  If he's guilty, his victims are still dead. If he's innocent,
 BK>>>  then it's a miscarriage of justice, just like any other.

 BA>> The latter, IMO.  But hey, it makes the persecutors feel
 BA>> real good.

 BK>  None of us have looked at the evidence in that depth, but I
 BK>  doubt he's innocent.

I doubt that he's as guilty as they claim he is.  

 BK> I don't see several administrations pursueing this for 30 years.
 BK> Remember, it's the German courts
 BK>  that want to try him.

Only because of US pressure.

 TW>>>> That is a mind set that I just cannot understand.

 BK>>>  That may be because you aren't all that ready to forgive and
 BK>>>  forget mass murder.

 BK>>>  Esp if they haven't paid their price for it.

 BA>> I'm sure that if the man is guilty that his penance will be
 BA>> forthcoming shortly.
 BA>> I doubt that he'll survive another year.

 BK>  Which is nice, but the whole point of prosecuting war criminals
 BK>  is to deter future war criminals. Which is why it must be done
 BK>  in every possible case, regardless of how long it takes or any
 BK>  devine retribution in the offing.

 BK>  And he might just as well survive another 10. He might not even
 BK>  be as sick as they claim, faking such illness is an old
 BK>  technique for avoiding justice.

The man is ninety-some years old.  He's already long outlived the statistics.
His crime seems to be that he didn't die in his seventies.

FWIW a couple of decades ago the city of Bellevue, NE, decided it wanted to
enhance the appearance of the entrance to the SAC museum (then located on
the end of an unused runway at Offutt AFB and originally set up by SAC).
So the city condemned the house a very elderly, pretty much poverty stricken
couple lived in, kicked them out, burned the house and cleared the lot to make
a nice lawn (note that the house was actually about fifty yards - most of which
was lawn - from the museum gate).  Both of those old folks died within a year
of being evicted from their home.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+