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bat <bat@bats.com> writes:

> The same kids and taxi drivers they have in custody now. 

Oh, bullshit.  You come across like the radical lawyers of
the Sixties and early Seventies who took it as axiomatic
that anyone who was black and in prison was a victim of
racism.  Let's apply a bit of elementary reasoning here:
Obviously, the armed forces and the CIA aren't going to 
waste time, effort, money and resources on the capture
and incarceration of people who are innocent and harmless.
If they did, they'd have nothing to gain and everything to
lose, credibility-wise.


> Everybody can see that now with all new security measures,
> trillions of dollars spent and hundred of thousands people
> killed, we were able to catch many real terrorists, all of
> whom were tried in court of law with evidence, and convicted;
> including, of course, all the perpetrators of 9/11.

Terrorism is warfare, not criminality.  Therefore, dealing with
terrorism is properly handled by the Defense Department, not by
the legal system.


> I only forgot how many? oh, I guess the sole approximation to
> that utopia of justice was Jose Padilla? 

Yeah, he's gonna get his at long last.  They're going to toss
that SOB so far back that they'll have to pipe beans to him.

Incidentally, I noticed that the news media eventually dropped
the Hispanic pronuciation of his surname -- "Pah-DEE-ah" -- and
began pronouncing it to rhyme with "chinchilla."  What's up with
that?  It reminds me of the way the newsdroids suddenly started
saying "Pee-no-CHETT" in lieu of "Pee-no-SHAY," or the way that
Slobodan Milosevic's last name acquired an additional "h" every
week or so during the Bosnia/Kosovo thing.



Geoff

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