Can't believe you posted this.....
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:31 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Filibuster Against Reason > *Posted by Butler Shaffer <[email protected]> on March 12, 2013 > 09:54 AM > > The mindlessly loyal Republicans who berated Rand Paul for his intelligent > and principled filibuster concerning the government's possible use of > drones against Americans, should watch Sen. Kelly Ayotte's (R-New > Hampshire) C-SPAN televised babble about how al Qaeda members do not > deserve due process before being punished by the American state. Her > immunization against reason began with the assertion that "we are at war," > a statement that conveniently ignores the fact that no "war" was ever > constitutionally declared, by Congress, against al Qaeda, Iraq, > Afghanistan, or Pakistan. Should those accused of drug-dealing likewise be > whisked off to prison without benefit of trial, given that "we are at war" > with drugs? "She then appealed to "guilt by association" by showing a photo > of bin Laden with one of the men she would like to see shipped off to > Guantanamo - without benefit of trial. Is this sufficient cause to punish > the man? If so, what about the fact that the Bush family has had a > business connection with the bin Laden family? Should former President > Alfred E. Neuman George W. Bush now be locked away at Gitmo? Sen. Ayotte - > and other lynch-mobbers - behave as though trials and other forms of due > process are designed to confer some undeserved benefit - a freebie - on > criminals. Had she and her other statist cohorts not jettisoned whatever > remnants of reason that remained in their brains, they would have > understood that such open trials exist for the purpose of determining > whether an accused *is guilty* of a crime! But in the age of Empire, > rationality is to be foregone in favor of the whims of those in power, a > point she continues to make in this morning's mini-filibuster! > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
