re: So. I'll just leave this here RE: Captain America:Civil War

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So let me get this straight: Is Bucky just some mindless, drooling, serial killer that Captain swears to protect because it is 'not him'? Let's say you knew someone, and I hate to take a serious tone here, who went to war, developed PTSD, and started killing people. Is he now unaccountable for his actions? I mean wtf? Even when Bucky was shown to have murdered the Starks, wouldn't you voluntarily give yourself up out of pure disgust? But what's worse is the Captain fighting for him. This plot line was a joke on its face, it has been, since Bucky's murder tally in the Winter Soldier.

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No. Just... no.

Your example fails in that the soldier with PTSD is still somewhat in control of what they are doing. They have an awareness, it's just skewed.

Prosecuting Bucky for what he did while under control of the Soviets is much more akin to wanting to prosecute a pistol. While Bucky remembered what he did, the Soviets were in total control of his mind (which was why he was freaking out soooooo badly when Zemo started reading off the control words). It was literally that he was a passenger in his own body and someone else was driving.

Another aspect of this that you failed to mention is that instead of just apprehending him, the very first order given was to kill Bucky on sight. Had the order been to bring him in alive, Cap probably would have been the first to offer to help them.