--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/29/06 10:20:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> 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?
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> 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 like simplistic world models, don't you?






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