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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (36011)3/22/2004 11:56:30 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793697
 
Roger Simon Blog - Good Marksmanship!

The assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin made me reflect on my position on capital punishment, although only briefly because this is a position (there's one at least!) I haven't wavered on much for many years. I oppose capital punishment in general with one important exception, politically motivated serial killers. These people even when imprisoned for life are a serious threat to murder again. They have too many adherents all too willing to break them out of jail. (Yassin himself was essentially coerced out of prison in a controversial prisoner swap to return to Gaza and instigate a wave of suicide bombings.)

Also, the assassination of such people is wholly justifiable. They are you adversaries in a declared/undeclared war. In Yassin's case, of course, it was totally declared. He spoke openly of the destruction of Israel on a daily basis and acted upon it. The characterization of Yassin as an impotent old man by such venues as the BBC and the Evening Standard is hypocritical nonsense (actually worse than that, but I don't feel like getting into it now). If a leader of such a nature had been sitting in another country sending waves of bombers into England blowing up buses they would have killed him in a heartbeat were they able. I notice too that British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is calling the assassination "unacceptable, unjust." I wonder what he would have called Clinton's attempt to assassinate Bin Laden with those cruise missiles. I call it "bad marksmanship."
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