Another Criminal Gets Away With a Long Life

Senator Jesse Helms as died. I don't know much about this fella, but I do know one thing:

When the U.S. signed the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1988 under genocidal war criminal Ronald Reagan's watch (40 years after it was drafted), the U.S. did so with exemptions. Those exemptions state that no U.S. citizen can be tried for the crime of genocide without express permission of the U.S. government. In other words, the exemptions state that U.S. law trumps international law. Basically, that is the same argument the Nazi's used at Nuremburg. One of the authors of the exemptions, known as "The Helms, Lugar, Hatch Exemptions," was, of course, Jesse Helms. So when you hear all over the news that the great Jesse Helms has died, I will remind you otherwise. He was a criminal who, sadly, did not live long enough for the U.S. citizenry to come to their senses, arrest and try him, and when he would have been found guilty...hanged him.