But nobody in the United States has any expectation that George W Bush will ever suffer any consequences for this crime.
In a country where there are no consistent legal consequences for committing crime, reliable institutional frameworks give way to something more "diffuse and fragmentary".
Laws governing domestic violence must be enforced to show abusers that they will be held accountable with severe consequences for their crime of abuse.
"The creation of consequences for cyber crime, espionage, and cyber attack and making these consequences clear to malicious actors is the most effective ways to reduce cyber risk (especially if done in partnerships with likeminded nations).
Then, of course, there are the thousands Americans whose lives have been irrevocably altered by government captivity — lost jobs and income, and the dehumanizing effects of incarceration to name a couple of consequences for a crime that is increasingly regarded as entirely avoidable collateral damage of a drug war that the US lost years ago.
So far, though, there is no evidence for believing this (see article).Moreover, there is a strong countervailing argument: the ease with which dictators have escaped any consequences for their crimes has encouraged more to seize power and to commit further barbarities.
Assad is only encouraged to intensify the use of barrel bombs because he faces no consequences for his crimes.
Unlike Gotti, who admitted he was a gangster, had pleaded guilty, had "faced the consequences" for his crimes in 1999, and then quit the mob, Carnesi said that Bonner and key trial witness John Alite are trying to do what mobster buddies Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo and Joseph (Little Joe) D'Angelo have already done -- use Junior as a get-out-of-jail card.
"I will not rest until the consequence for the crime meets the severity of the crime itself – for my daughter and all other young unsuspecting girls".
