Hawkmoon, you referred to the following message: Deported to another continent, to a secret jail, kept in isolation, tortured by MPs, lawyer denied, Geneva convention denied, no evidence checked by an independant institution, and so on ... by responding:
So you think that's what those detentions are all about, eh?
Maybe, just maybe you think our soldiers have nothing better to do but to arrest and lock up anyone they want, at any time, and at great risk to their own lives, just so they can fill up those detention camps.....
Or that they have nothing better to do but waste their time interrogating people who obviously have nothing to do with terrorism..
That forces me to ask; are you really an American? Do you have any appreciation for what it means to live in a free society that GUARANTEES liberty and justice for ALL? Your post screams out a "NO" answer to that question.
Let me try to help you out. We DON'T, as a society, believe in guilt by "arrest." We don't presume that a person must be guilty or, "why else would our police force or military have arrested them?"
We don't use the old tried and true method of justice that was used on the witches of old; throw them in the water and if they swam they were witches to be burned at the stake but if they drowned they were not, and god would take care of them.
And surely you aren't so stupid or blinded by (your choice here) patriotism, partisanism or pugnaciousness, that you cannot fail to see that our "soldiers" are not god's gift to justice and fairness.
Or maybe you aren't following the torture and abuse scandals which will ultimately be proven to have been widespread, encouraged, condoned or allowed by our "soldiers" at the highest levels and with the tacit or express approval of our highest civilian authorities who felt, as apparently do you, "torture's not so bad when the bad guys 'might' be terrorists" and "better to maim and torture the innocent with the guilty rather than chance letting the guilty go free.
The kinds of attitudes and social theories you're spewing are all the more dangerous because you apparently feel that your "good" motives empower these "bad" methods. There is by far more evil done in the name of "good" than was ever done by those who thought they were acting evilly.
May the fates spare us from the "good" advocated by men like Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle and, yes, YOU. |
