> You can hold your tongue, if you wan too. Just because someone dies doesn’t mean it wipes the slate clean.
Surely not. But what good does it do you or anybody else to vituperate about him now? He’s dead: stone dead and he will never again be. And where he is now he cannot hurt anyone else ever again. And even at this very moment he is accounting for each and every one of his deeds, whether they be good or ill. God doesn’t care what CNN thinks or even what we think. Ted will surely get his “reward”, and I wouldn’t want to trade places with him right now...
> Old Ted did an extraordinary amount of damage to our country in his 45+ year tenure. I’m not going to forget that. Nor am I going to forget Mary Jo Kopechne.
What good does it do you or your country to preserve Ted’s misdeeds? He’s dead: there are no lessons that you need to remember from him that you wouldn’t know already (eg don’t drink to excess, don’t womanize, don’t drink-and-drive, don’t commit manslaughter, don’t bear false witness, don’t betray your country etc etc etc.) You knew all of these all along. Beyond that is just wasted effort and wasted energy.
> Oh sure, so going by that old proverb.....then Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were just really good people
They’re dead. You can’t make them more dead than they already are: they’re deader than Kelsey’s nuts. They were executed as traitors, so they already enjoy all the opprobrium that rightly belongs to all traitors. Why waste further energy on them?
> and shouldn’t be remembered for the Red Commie Spies that they were.......
They deserve to be forgotten. Which, when you think it thru carefully, is about the worst thing that can happen to anybody.
> or even better yet John Wayne Gayce was an OK guy, he just really liked little kids. He shouldn’t be remembered for the 33 boys he raped and murdered.
Again, he’s dead, and executed for murdering kids. He too deserves to be forgotten. He’s currently occupying an interesting corner of Hell where he will remain forever. Nobody but Lucifer ever need remember him.