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Quixote wrote:
>
> Unlike the cordial treatment these "unlawful combatants" give to their
> hostages. I think its starting to get a little messy in here with all the
> bleeding hearts personally. I would be for treating them like they would
> treat those they capture, chop off their heads.
The problem is, some of these folk are likely yokels picked up off the
street when they ran from US soldiers during a war. Or they might be, if
we ("the world at large") knew who they were. But we don't. We have to
trust folks who'd happily torture people for information, and quite
frankly I don't find them all that trustworthy.
> Don't forget we are dealing
> with people who cannot begin to fathom whatsoever the ideas of justice and
> rights that we share, and don't forget you are nothing to them but a ticket
> to heaven...
Like we have now, a guy who's admitted to shooting someone half a dozen
times, slitting his throat, then sticking a knife in his belly with a
note attached. Then he started taking potshots at police in an effort to
get killed.
He says he doesn't recognize the Dutch legal system. I don't want him to
die, I don't want him to be tortured, as that would make him a martyr
for other radical young folk. I want him to live out the remainder of
his life in a concrete box with the Dutch equivalent of Big Bubbah, and
see him die in disgrace at high age.
--
Frank