On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Anonymous wrote:
I think it's about not becoming evil yourself when you're fighting evil. Pretty applicable, yes. We should not be tempted to act in unlawful and questionable ways.
Too late. We refuse to recognize armed combatants, captured on the field of battle as POWs; we refuse the natural right to a lawyer, to habeus, to basic human rights. We are EXACTLY what we claim "the enemy" is. We are the enemy...
It is sticking by international treaties and handling everyone in accordance to law and human values that separates us from evil men like Saddam.
And since we have not done this, can I go string up Georgie now? Please?
This is a good time to show him and his followers that all men, even those of his sort, are treated equal and given a fair trial as stipulated by the universal declaration of human rights by the UN in 1948.
Spare me the bullshit. Fair trial? We won't even give them fucking LAWYERS.
And this by the state they call "the great satan". Behaving like a lynch mob will make us loosers too.
We are already losers. We have completely disgraced ourselves here - we are what we hunt. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way to a wider loyalty, to the love of humanity as a whole. Bah'u'llh's statement is: "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." The Promise of World Peace http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/pdaFiles/pwp.htm