To refuse to serve a customer is considered a violation of civil rights, but the state can impose trade embargoes against whole countries and label it proactive foreign policy. This is precisely why so many found the death penalty for McVeigh hypocritical at best. In these bombings, people die, not all of them soldiers in the line of battle. The same was true during Clinton s war against Serbia. Apartment units, outdoor markets, passenger trains, churches these are all considered targets.
Innocents die, but there is no justice or demand for justice.
And then there are the famous cases of Waco and Ruby Ridge, where innocents who never harmed anyone were targeted and destroyed for their refusal to bow to the wishes of the state. The US military is also guilty, just recently, of bringing about civilian deaths in Italy, the seas of Japan and China, Hawaii, and Peru where missionaries sought to witness for Christ. The worst that happens to the perpetrators is that they are told to retire. Sometimes they are kicked upstairs. Holding public office is regarded as protection against the imposition of justice.