Dave, we're getting into Charlie Manson territory imo. No one is "innocent", everyone is guilty of something. Just because you're convicted in a court room, doesn't mean you're guilty. You're guilty when YOU know you're guilty, and as a society we look at people like Charles Manson or Ted Bundy as horrible monsters, but we give the true monsters of our society a pass when they are responsible for far more deaths of innocent people.
Let's just do a little math here. Number of victims killed.
BTK: 10 (officially, 2 more investigating)
Ted Bundy: 20 (confirmed)
Gary Ridgeway: 49 (official)
John Wayne Gacy: 33
Jeffrey Dahmer: 17
Manson Family: 6
These people are known as the most evil members of American society. The worst we have ever seen. And all of these people combined were responsible for 135 (official) deaths.
Compare with say ... oh I don't know, George W. Bush, who was The 43rd President of The United States.
Quote:
The Iraq Body Count project documents 186,901 – 210,296 violent civilian deaths in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual...f_the_Iraq_War
George W. Bush, and the American soldiers he commanded, were responsible for at least somewhere around two hundred thousand civilian deaths. These soldiers are heroes, right? George W. Bush was such a great President he was reelected. So these are good guys! Right???? Jeff Dahmer, John Gacy, Gary Ridgeway, Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, and Charles Manson and friends are the real monsters and they're only responsible for 135 deaths, and George W. Bush and his army of soldiers are the real heroes, and are responsible for 200 thousand deaths.
See the problem?
"You, out there. You comfortable ones. You point the finger. You say "the junky's the problem," you say "the sexual deviant is the problem," you say "the serial killer is the problem," you say "the racist is the problem." You say "the man that hates his fellow man is the problem." But they aint the problem. You're the problem! The sexual deviant, the murderer, the serial killer, the taker of human life is the cure! YOU'RE THE PROBLEM!" - Joe Coleman
https://boingboing.net/2021/06/12/wa...al-barker.html