8th December 2022, 5:46 AM
He didn't get his hand shaken. A deserved slight, but absolutely less than the least he deserves. It was all the officers and the family of the slain officer could do. But, congress could do more to punish him, and the fact they are not is an inditement of the whole of government.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)