Posted By:
Jeff LichtmanNo David, we won't fly our planes into their buildings because we are not a culture which glorifies death over life, unlike radical Islam.
And I say this respectfully -- seriously: instead of limiting my rhetoric to a baseball chat board I actually spent the last eight years fighting the Bush government in an effort to enforce constitutional rights for those arrested and charged with crimes. The inclusion of dracnoian new laws quietly slipped into the Patriot Act having nothing to do with the war on Islamic terror was pitiful; however, I can't say that I'm concerned with any efforts made by our government to keep us safe from Muslim terror. And those picked off the battlefield don't merit the rights that those charged with crimes in the United States Code do. That's just the way I feel. Imagine how the jihadists are laughing when they read that their brothers in Gitmo are receiving Gameboys and lawyers.
Anyway, I don't want to turn this thread (any further) into a referendum on the use of torture because while I don't agree with some of the posters here on this issue I am certain that no one's heart is in the wrong place here, which I think is of paramount importance.