Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's happening outside Fairfield

[MDixon6569]

In a message dated 9/30/06 7:24:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'd be interested to see what Alan Dershowitz says about all this. > Several years ago he sparked alot of debate on all this by invoking > the frightening scenario of: > > What do you do when you capture a terrorist suspect who knows when > and where a nuclear bomb is going to go off in a major American city > and there's only hours left...do you respect his "constitutional > rights" or do you, ahem, torture the shit out of him so that you > save 100,000 lives? > > > > > > > Oh, but Shemp, you *first* have to find him guilty of being a terrorist and > he has the right of due process, being informed of his rights, being charged, > having an attorney present, having time to prepare a defense and then a jury > of *his* peers. And then once he is found guilty and run out of appeals you > can't do anything to violate his rights or subject him to cruel or unusual > punishment. It reminds me of the Pakistani general on the 911 mini series that > said to the CIA agent that captured RamsyYusef, " give me two hours with him > and I'll get you all the information you want that he has". Then later when > our FBI agents interrogate a terrorist all they could do was threaten to tell > his momma that her son was a terrorist. You do know this is total b*llsh*t, right, MDixon? No, not total BS Judy. That was for the person/persons that are going to say, "but, but but... how do you know he's a terrorist? He hasn't been convicted yet?" After all, he's only  a suspect, right? How many lives does using these interrogation techniques have to save in order to justify using them on somebody who is a high profile terrorist or terrorist leader in a position to know? __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___