Osama bin Laden was accused of murdering thousands of Americans, yet US forces who killed him found it necessary to smear him with revelations that he had a stash of pornography in his home.
If The Kiss famously caught by a photographer on V-J Day in Times Square happened today, it might look and feel different. The death of Osama bin Laden does nothing to ease the economic pain of depression and collapse.
Rape kits languish untested. Death row inmates can’t get DNA testing at all. But at Ground Zero DNA testing of people we know are dead continues unabated.