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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "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