9-11 Al Qaeda Masterminds get Vaccine
#21
I was gonna ask how in the world these people are still being detained and Gitmo still open, but then I read these comments. Thanks for educating me on American values. I mean, isn't twenty years in a holding cell long enough to figure out if someone is guilty or not? What an abomination of justice.
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Yea, starving prisoners is what America ought to do. Who cares about the Constitution, right? But wait...
Kinda funny how you bring up the Constitution in one thread and throw it out the window in this thread. Seems like you only like the Constitution when it lines up with your feelings. That's not how it was meant to work. If you believe in a country of laws, you don't get to selectively apply them
Yea, starving prisoners is what America ought to do. Who cares about the Constitution, right? But wait...
Care to quote an actual, you know, constitutional power that gives government the power to protect ourselves from ourselves? Where is there a definition of “non-essential”? Does the owner of a non-essential business get a say in their designation? Cannabis, which was, and still is under Federal law, illegal has been considered “essential” in some states. Does that make sense?
#23
Kinda funny how you bring up the Constitution in one thread and throw it out the window in this thread. Seems like you only like the Constitution when it lines up with your feelings. That's not how it was meant to work. If you believe in a country of laws, you don't get to selectively apply them
Kinda funny how you bring up the Constitution in one thread and throw it out the window in this thread. Seems like you only like the Constitution when it lines up with your feelings. That's not how it was meant to work. If you believe in a country of laws, you don't get to selectively apply them
As to whether we should opt to apply those protections to everybody in the entire world is a legit subject for debate. The argument for "no" is that people outside US territory are not within reach of the judicial system. If a wanted foriegn terrorist managed to get into the US, he would be arrested and subject to the same rules as any citizen... I don't think he could be sent to, or held at GITMO.
KSM is in GITMO, but his nephew was extradited to the US, got a normal trial and is doing life at the supermax (along with several notorious American bombers). KSM could have surrendered and got the same, although he might have been in jeopardy for the death penalty... 3000 counts of special murder-1, one or two of those might have stuck.
#24
I was gonna ask how in the world these people are still being detained and Gitmo still open, but then I read these comments. Thanks for educating me on American values. I mean, isn't twenty years in a holding cell long enough to figure out if someone is guilty or not? What an abomination of justice.
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Yea, starving prisoners is what America ought to do. Who cares about the Constitution, right? But wait...
Kinda funny how you bring up the Constitution in one thread and throw it out the window in this thread. Seems like you only like the Constitution when it lines up with your feelings. That's not how it was meant to work. If you believe in a country of laws, you don't get to selectively apply them
Yea, starving prisoners is what America ought to do. Who cares about the Constitution, right? But wait...
Kinda funny how you bring up the Constitution in one thread and throw it out the window in this thread. Seems like you only like the Constitution when it lines up with your feelings. That's not how it was meant to work. If you believe in a country of laws, you don't get to selectively apply them
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If they're guilty, then execute them. If not, why continue running a concentration camp?
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These extrajudicial prisons should not exist. As Ben Franklin said, "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." The story of this innocent 19 year old kid detained in Guantanamo is a travesty of justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz
If we really think we are better than the terrorists, perhaps we shouldn't resort to barbarism in response.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz
If we really think we are better than the terrorists, perhaps we shouldn't resort to barbarism in response.
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I'm sure the White House approached this decision with the mindset of, "We value terrorists over FDNY heroes"
Or maybe, the goal was to prevent a COVID outbreak in a high-security prison in an isolated location surrounded by a hostile country. Giving the prisoners the vaccine protects the service members. If they didn't do this, I'm sure the author would write an article complaining that the Biden administration failed to prevent an outbreak in Gitmo and now there are fewer gaurds available to keep the mastermind behind 9/11 behind bars.
Or maybe, the goal was to prevent a COVID outbreak in a high-security prison in an isolated location surrounded by a hostile country. Giving the prisoners the vaccine protects the service members. If they didn't do this, I'm sure the author would write an article complaining that the Biden administration failed to prevent an outbreak in Gitmo and now there are fewer gaurds available to keep the mastermind behind 9/11 behind bars.
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I was gonna ask how in the world these people are still being detained and Gitmo still open, but then I read these comments. Thanks for educating me on American values. I mean, isn't twenty years in a holding cell long enough to figure out if someone is guilty or not? What an abomination of justice.
Surprisingly, many of these inmates are dedicated to their cause, and when released, have returned to the fight. Many if not most were captured in circumstances that preclude a normal trial. However, most of their actions were prima facie war crimes.
I mean, we can go down the Canadian route of giving millions of dollars to war criminals from Gitmo, but I don't know if that serves Justice as much as you seem committed to doing so.
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