We are (used to be?) a nation of laws, beep.

Post #151,395 by mmoffitt 4/16/04 10:36:04 AM Reply	We are (used to be?) a nation of laws, beep. Do try to remember that. CR is correct. This was not a "declaration of war". This was a criminal act of mass murder. Immediately after the fact, we had a choice: 1) Leverage the world-wide sympathy we had to illicit the help of the world's criminal investigative powers to root out the co-conspirators, bring them here, try them, convict them and send them to prison for the rest of their lives (similar to what we had done during the Millenium threat and the first group of thugs that tried to blow up the WTC). -OR- 2) We could become just like the terrorists we were trying to capture while simultaneously alienating almost the entire world in the process. Guess which one we did?
Post #151,397 by bepatient 4/16/04 10:39:20 AM Reply	I don't think you get it either. you cannot threaten someone willing to DIE with life in prison. The fact they they can kill several thousand that then get 3 squares and 100k a year to support them with free cable...yeah baby!!! If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #151,398 by mmoffitt 4/16/04 10:41:35 AM Reply	Whose threatening? I'm talking about getting them behind bars so that they can plot no more. Or does your protest, as I LARGELY suspect, have more to do with an infantile "I gotta hit 'em back" attitude than it does with making us a safer, more humane and more respectable place?
Post #151,437 by jb4 4/16/04 2:01:17 PM 4/16/04 2:02:57 PM Reply	I dunno, BeeP Putting a martyr-wannabee behind bars for-basically-ever, and making sure they can't ever become martyrs strikes me as being a death worse than fate, and wholly appropriate punishment. (And the occasional boo-foo would surely add insult to injury, as well.) jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT Edited by jb4 April 16, 2004, 02:02:57 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #151,465 by pwhysall 4/16/04 4:51:36 PM Reply	Depends on what you regard prison AS. Do you think of it as a place of rehabilitation, a place of restraint, or a place where you exact your revenge? Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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