…Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, later to be brutally beheaded by his captors with the video proudly posted on the Internet for the world to see.
The terrorists who committed this act, were they to be captured today under the Obama Administration’s policies, would be brought to the mainland United States for trial in civilian courts, be granted the rights of habeas corpus and the right to remain silent, could not be subjected to any coercive interrogation practices, and would have the right to see all evidence against them, as well as cross examine their accusers.
Rest in peace, Daniel.
Okay?
agold Friday, January 23rd at 4:45PM EST (link)If I remember correctly, the men who beheaded this man were cowards, who wore masks and concealed their identity. So you’re saying that if we caught the men we *thought* were the perpetrators, they shouldn’t be allowed a fair trial in the court of law? What if we were wrong? What if we had the wrong guys? They should be subjected to torture anyways? Locked up for two years with no trial, and then given a mocked up, BS tribunal?
I don’t know guys, what’s the issue here?
Wait, so....
Jeff Emanuel Friday, January 23rd at 4:46PM EST (link)…just give up altogether and let them go?
JE
How is a man's right to defend himself
agold Friday, January 23rd at 4:48PM EST (link)in the court of law ‘giving up?’
How can be decapitating a man be defen.... oh, right. Pearl was a Jew.
Moe Lane Friday, January 23rd at 4:51PM EST (link)That makes all right for you people.
Blam.
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agold Friday, January 23rd at 4:56PM EST (link)[Odd, that. - Moe Lane]
agold...you have been banned...but you still are posting...
Attack Mode Friday, January 23rd at 5:05PM EST (link)These guys made a video of themselves cutting the head off of a man and played it on the internet, if we were able to get a positive id on them and found their location, I would personally board a C-130 with my -10 and jump in in the middle of the night and take my silenced 9 mm to the back of each of their heads and gently pull the trigger…and I would have not one doubt about it being the right thing to do…no jury, no evidence, no witnesses…just the calming crack of my gun and a yellow glow surrounded by a brief moment of pink mist….then I would walk away while eating a bologna sandwich.
That is how I feel about this and I hope it makes you have bad dreams at night.
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conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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That is how I feel about this and I hope it makes you have bad dreams at night
izoneguy Friday, January 23rd at 5:09PM EST (link)My sentiment also.
I was thinking more like Arby’s
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Bologna travels better....;^)....nt
Attack Mode Friday, January 23rd at 5:12PM EST (link)“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
Hey ghost...
mbecker908 Friday, January 23rd at 5:04PM EST (link)How about anybody who can be associated with a terrorist group - aQ, Hamas, Hezbollah for starters - should be considered to be an “enemy of the United States” and should be killed outright by any means possible. Oh, and to clarify, that would include those people who provide “aid and comfort” in terms of money and assistance.
I mean...
agold Friday, January 23rd at 4:47PM EST (link)I mean, what if authorities showed up on your doorstep, accused you of a crime you didn’t commit, and then you were locked up for years without any sort of trial?
and if your rules were applied to WWII, we would have surrendered after D-Day due to overclogged courts
JSobieski Friday, January 23rd at 5:08PM EST (link)Do you have any idea how many prisoners of war we held during WWII?
Do you have any idea how many trials were conducted before the end of the war?
Basically, you want to adopt a policy that makes victory in war . . . impossible.
Translation: "OWW! OWW! Quit it! Quit it!"
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HappyBunny Friday, January 23rd at 5:00PM EST (link)That horrid Obama
redneck_hippie Friday, January 23rd at 4:56PM EST (link)executive order made me think of the horrible murder of Daniel Pearl.
I had not realized about the anniversary and its being 6 yrs. ago.
Here’s hoping that 20 years from now the Obama administration is forgotten about except as a novelty Presidency and that no long-term consequences remain from his dunderheaded policies.
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Remember NY-23.
But he "won" he "won"
izoneguy Friday, January 23rd at 5:06PM EST (link)and will go down as the worst evah!!!
Obama is just the opposite man. Anything Bush did that was good is reversed by the ONE with a swipe of a pen. 4 years from now we should slam the door shut on the dems for good. No more reaching across the aisle.
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And what if they are set free?
scottbomb Friday, January 23rd at 5:20PM EST (link)This is at the heart of the matter. Suppose some of those prisoners are set free on a technicality or some other reason. Are they then free to stay in the US? Obama may be getting in over his head here. Of course that’s nothing new.
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That's kind of fallacious argument
LawSchoolRed Friday, January 23rd at 5:22PM EST (link)I am not sure thats the best argument. If these were common criminals and we thought they beheaded someone i.e. gang members, they would be afforded Habeus rights. If they were soldiers and they were captured on the battlefield, they would *possibly* be subject to coercive measures not including torture (i.e. waterboarding if you assume its not torture), but most would be chocked if we did that soldiers in a conventional war.
However, just because they are neither criminals nor soldiers but somewhere in between, does not necessarily mean that the shouldn’t be afforded rights we afford to either.
They may be ‘enemy combatants’ but thats not discussed in the intitial posting. What should be referenced in this is that under the One’s legal theories, there is no such thing as enemy combatants, there are either criminals are soldiers and they are afforded those rights respectively. The real argument is whether or not such categorizations are legitimate under our laws and constitution.
sorry for the typos
LawSchoolRed Friday, January 23rd at 5:29PM EST (link).