So we should have, idk, let there be a public trial with lots and lots of footage for his followers to manipulate and use as their own propaganda?
I don't disagree about the whole industrial military complex but... I can't say that I'm losing sleep over how Bin Laden was taken out. I didn't go out and celebrate and I will never celebrate another person's death but Bin Laden was not an unarmed elderly old man any more than Dick Cheney is a harmless loving father.
I don't know what the criteria is, nor do I know which law we're following. International law? Because I kind of think that's broken when the person on trial, you know, effectively murders several thousand people for no reason. Where would you hold it? Who would work as the jury? And how long would it take and how much of a motivator would it be to other future terrorists?
Mind you I am not framing this is "EFF YEAH USA THIS IS OUR RIGHT TO KILL PEOPLE!" and that is specifically why I used Dick Cheney as the example, seeing as how he's helped drag USA into a war that's still killing people in various ways
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The article seems a bit haphazard, but maybe I'm just not reading it correctly.
It's this whole killing people who kill people because killing people is wrong thing that always gets me. I don't understand why it's acceptable to go into a country covertly to murder someone whereas if the military from another country tried to do that in the UK, for example, there would be no rejoicing in the streets and weird parties.
They should have given him a trial. The whole point of the justice system is to try people to find them guilty of their crimes. I don't get why it's allowed to be circumvented whenever a government thinks it's acceptable.
But then again, Guantanamo Bay is still open for business so it's not like the justice system does a whole lot of good in these cases, either.
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you do realize that violations of international law do not become magically ok when it's someone we don't like
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I don't disagree about the whole industrial military complex but... I can't say that I'm losing sleep over how Bin Laden was taken out. I didn't go out and celebrate and I will never celebrate another person's death but Bin Laden was not an unarmed elderly old man any more than Dick Cheney is a harmless loving father.
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like, what is the criteria
when do we get to decide when someone will embarrass us too badly to deserve protection under the law
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Mind you I am not framing this is "EFF YEAH USA THIS IS OUR RIGHT TO KILL PEOPLE!" and that is specifically why I used Dick Cheney as the example, seeing as how he's helped drag USA into a war that's still killing people in various ways ( ... )
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That is all. :)
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It's this whole killing people who kill people because killing people is wrong thing that always gets me. I don't understand why it's acceptable to go into a country covertly to murder someone whereas if the military from another country tried to do that in the UK, for example, there would be no rejoicing in the streets and weird parties.
They should have given him a trial. The whole point of the justice system is to try people to find them guilty of their crimes. I don't get why it's allowed to be circumvented whenever a government thinks it's acceptable.
But then again, Guantanamo Bay is still open for business so it's not like the justice system does a whole lot of good in these cases, either.
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