12-08-2008, 11:24 PM
swampy wrote:
[quote=Greg the dogsitter]
I thought you were, when you expressed a desire that the terrorists be moved into the homes of a war veteran, the president-elect, and some others.
Well, I thought all you libs wanted only the best for the Gitmo guys. Heaven knows the ACLU et al have insisted they are nothing more than civilian criminals that should be tried in a court of law rather than military tribunals. How 'bout farm some out to George Clooney, Sean Penn, Michael Jordan and all the other libs that say the Gitmo guys have been "unfairly" treated.
Now you're saying they are terrorists and may be bad guys... You libs can't have it both ways.
Swampy,
I can't speak for anyone else, but as a card-carrying BHL I can share my perspective, and it goes like this:
Trying, sentencing, torturing people without process is not the american way. It's something our founding fathers tried to move beyond. That our government thinks it's OK makes it hard for many of us to be "proud" at the moment.
I'm having a hard time reconciling the values you have expressed here-- on the one hand you made an effort to make us more aware of the injustices endured by women in strict muslim environments; on the other you don't seem too intetested in the ideal of universal human rights when it comes to suspected terrorists.