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Well this worked out well
Topic Started: Jan 4 2010, 08:59 PM (149 Views)
Improviso
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HOLY CARP!!!
Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight

Maybe they weren't innocents caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time after all.

Yea, yea, I know. They were peace loving folks till they spent years in Gitmo.
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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brenda
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Improviso
Jan 4 2010, 08:59 PM
Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight

Maybe they weren't innocents caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time after all.

Yea, yea, I know. They were peace loving folks till they spent years in Gitmo.
:banghead:





“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Due process and the presumption of innocence are bigger than a few prisoners-turned-Al-Qaeda pawns.

Your drinking a beer today doesn't imply, much less proves, that you were an alcoholic three years ago.

Don't be too eager to tear up the Constitution.
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Improviso
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HOLY CARP!!!
Axtremus
Jan 4 2010, 09:14 PM
Due process and the presumption of innocence are bigger than a few prisoners-turned-Al-Qaeda pawns.

Your drinking a beer today doesn't imply, much less proves, that you were an alcoholic three years ago.

Don't be too eager to tear up the Constitution.
I've quoted you Ax, so that at some future date I can find it and throw it back in your face should one of these motherfvckers blow up someone close to you.
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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Red Rice
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Axtremus
Jan 4 2010, 09:14 PM
Your drinking a beer today doesn't imply, much less proves, that you were an alcoholic three years ago.

Wow Ax, this may be your worst analogy yet, and that's saying something.

Would you like to explain how this is in any way applicable?

Here's a better analogy for you:

Just because you murdered someone today doesn't mean you were a murderer three years ago... but it probably does mean you should have been kept behind bars.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Axtremus
Jan 4 2010, 09:14 PM
Due process and the presumption of innocence are bigger than a few prisoners-turned-Al-Qaeda pawns.

Your drinking a beer today doesn't imply, much less proves, that you were an alcoholic three years ago.

Don't be too eager to tear up the Constitution.
What part of due process were they denied? You DO realize that military tribunals and the military judicial system have been established by Congress from the earliest days of the nation, and are a completely valid form of governmental adjudication under the 5th, 6th and 14th amendments, don't you?

The dogma lives loudly within me.
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