<pre><tt>"Long before a suicide bomber commits the crime of murder, he has<br>engaged in the crime of conspiracy, or providing material support to a<br>terrorist organization, or any number of crimes that don't require him<br>to have blown himself up in a public square."<br><br>Andreas,<br><br>Based on what do you make this bold claim? You don't think that terrorist commit these crimes on their own accord?<br>You don't think it is possible that we have enough to know they are planning something but not enough to get<br>a conviction?<br>You want the US to just let free all the suspected terrorists that wish death to the US?<br>Then when we have completed our 15 year public investigation, tipping off <br>the terrorist organizations where we have infiltrated them, go arrest the ones we are<br>sure would receive a life sentence? Sounds like a<br>impractical idea in the prevention of a bomb going off in a major city.<br><br>Do you honestly believe that people being held by the
United States were randomly<br>selected in a lottery?<br><br>Unfortunately, it is not possible, or practical to be able to give an individual trial for each<br>and every suspected person threatening to cause harm to the US. Nor can we ignore the real threat that<br>they pose to us and other Westerners. We don't have the luxury of giving a separate trial to every person<br>within a network dedicated to killing us. <br><br>You seem to be living in a false reality. You forget that if we release these people they will kill people<br>without hesitation, providing that their own governments don't kill them first.<br><br>I do agree however, that the US government should be working hard to find out if any of these<br>people are not a threat to the US so they can move them to a safe place and restore their freedom. <br><br><br>Best,<br><br>_DJA<br><br><br><br></tt></pre> <br><br><b><i>Andreas Schou <ophite@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > You wrote:<br>><br>> "If we have evidence of crimes we should be prosecuting them in a court of<br>> law. If<br>> we don't, then we don't actually know that they are terrorists and they<br>> should be set free."<br>><br>> So you want to wait until after a suicide bomber commits his crime before<br>> confining him?<br><br>Long before a suicide bomber commits the crime of murder, he has<br>engaged in the crime of conspiracy, or providing material support to a<br>terrorist organization, or any number of crimes that don't require him<br>to have blown himself up in a public square. If we cannot prove beyond<br>a reasonable doubt that someone is a suicide bomber, and try him in<br>court, we have no business locking him up.<br><br>The fact that I have to be telling another American that we have to<br>prove a crime before locking someone away in perpetuity is
just<br>another example of how far toward authoritarianism the discourse has<br>shifted since 9/11.<br><br>-- ACS<br></blockquote><br><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com