I love how you americans (I have nothing against you) time & time again try to take the morale ground from the comfort of your homes, and hold on to values your country hasn't met for well... let's say ever. It's all words. infact, most of the righteous crap spoken in here is from arms length, from a distance so to speak.
Here's a direct question. Would you have one of the terrorists or yet to be determined terrorists living next door to you? I think the answer to that question is no. Yet again, words and quoting text is simply a load of ole BS imo. While we are at it, why not reform the rapists and allocate them to your local friendly neighbourhood, yes? let's allocate them next to our schools (oh jeepers, we have). While we are at it, why not just round up children and thow in a pheadophile and lets talk and comment about it at arms length.
Would you have a reformed rapist living next door to you? Mingling amongst your children? Why not give them a chance huh. Personally, a bullet in the head is the cheaper solution. but I'm betting you wouldn't be post the american version of the ten commandments if that were the case.
It's not that I am against some of the policies, Some of them are just fairy tale agenda orientated crap to yet again pull you gullible lot in and thus quoting scriptures from days long past.
I dunno, when the time comes again (i won't go into that comment) but you'll have to blame yourselves yet again. I'm not a big fan of bush, but the best thing he did was to remove sadaam from power even if it didn't directly benefit you americans. As for obama, well, I'm quite excited to see how this little episode pans out for you lot and then blame yourselves yet again for voting him in power.
The logic your using is basically is, if my own worst instincts is to do something morally or legally wrong, then that should justify the moral and legal failings of everyone else. That's not how society works, nor can it function if we discard the better angles of our nature because it's hard. Cynicism breads nothing, but more cynicism. It's not constructive either.
Here's a direct answer. No, I don't want a terrorist living next door (though, likely that would be the safest place, as what terrorist blows up his own house? But I digress). That doesn't really have anything to do with Guantanamo Bay or the subject at hand. Did you think they where just going to close the prison down and release all the prisoners? The problem with Gitmo is that they are holding prisoners without trial and have used illegal interrogation techniques, with virtually nothing to show for it. Closing it down means the illegal tactics stop and we then start the process of putting these detainees on trial, find out who actually IS an enemy combatant and who isn't dangerous, and start using legal interrogation techniques that are proven to actually produce results.
Your second set of questions is baited, and doesn't have anything to do with topic either, but I'll answer them nevertheless. No, I don't want a rapist living next door, but then, I don't know if I already do. If he's reformed, it's not my responsibility or right to decide where he lives. It's my responsibility to not let my kids roam the neighborhood unsupervised to begin with, since I don't know what kind of people live on my street, and it would be irresponsible of me to do so, even if I knew for a fact no one on it had been convicted. Again, though, I'm not sure what that had to do with the topic.
What policies exactly are fairy tale agenda crap? Because I have yet to hear anyone be specific about what they don't think will work.
01-22-2009, 02:17 PM
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