"We believe these armed extremists have been emboldened by what they saw as a clear victory at the Cliven Bundy ranch and the fact that no one was held accountable for taking up arms against agents of the federal government," said Mr Beirich.
MARY HOOKS: We obviously knew that the police were going to not be held accountable, so we took over the Underground Atlantic Plaza in Atlanta – it used to be an old slave market, where they would buy and sell enslaved Africans.
In every instance the police never conducted an investigation and the people who had attacked the refugees were not held accountable; no arrests took place and no one was put on trial.
To date not a single high-ranking Khmer Rouge leader has been held accountable or has taken responsibility for the death of as many as 2 million Cambodians -- roughly a quarter of the population.
In a climate where common language is not held accountable to common meaning, "taking a stand" becomes a mostly theatrical exercise.
People are being held accountable, but it's taking too long". Mr. Di Rita said the Pentagon was examining ways to speed up such investigations, "because justice delayed is justice denied". A spokesman for the Criminal Investigation Command, Christopher Grey, would not discuss details of the case, but played down the significance of the agents' early proposal to close it.
And the oil industry needs to be held accountable for its hostage taking.
As for the Forcillo outcome, he said it's rare that police are held accountable for violence that takes place in the line of duty because both juries and judges would tend to empathize with cops.
To this day, no one has been held accountable for the deeds that took a loving brother and son, and a doting and beautiful mother.
So he knew the panel would be examining the actions of the police and other powerful people and organisations, none of whom had been held legally accountable, taken responsibility or at that stage apologised for the failings that caused 96 people to die.
