Over the past several years, this has been bothering me more and more, too.

If it's "we did this horrible thing, but made some money" or "we did this horrible thing, and locked up some terrible bad guy", then at least there's some kind of logic to it. But we keep hearing these stories of: someone in power does some whacked-out stupid mean shit to someone who's in no position to resist. And it goes unchecked and unpunished?...

I don't mean to be hand-wringing and preaching to the choir here,... but yeah -- I'm baffled and scared, too. I think there's a streak of American culture that enjoys hurting people just for the sake of hurting people.