Posted on 07/18/2008 9:58:39 AM PDT by swarthyguy
The gentleman who was one of the five live persons (and 199 cadavers, some held for 30 years) Israel traded for the bodies of two of its soldiers is in the news. He vows to continue the struggle.
Well, last time he shot a civilian father in front of his 4-year girl, and then crushed her skull with his rifle butt. What a hero! What a blow for the oppressed Palestinians! May we suggest a Nobel Peace Prize for the gentleman? A trifling honor we shall no doubt will have to beg him to accept.
So, good buddy good pal, what's next on the agenda? Raping a few Israeli women before killing them and setting a few babies on fire? We breathlessly wait for word of your new heroic deeds on behalf of Palestine.
We've said this before, but it's worth repeating again. In Kashmir the Indian army had a simple policy. If the captured man was a foreigner, i.e., Pakistani or other, he was shot on the spot. If he was a local, i.e., Indian Kashmir, he was sent for reeducation.
This sounds barbaric, but you have to understand the Indian criminal justice system, even the special courts, are really not set up to deal with insurgents. In the Punjab insurgency, where those nice clean cut boys were murdering 1000 civilians a month - no bombs either, BTW, just pulling people off buses and shooting them one by one, the criminal justice system was completely paralyzed. The terrorists would kill the police - along with their entire families; they would kill witnesses; they would threaten judges. No one could stand up against them.
So the Punjab Police took to killing captured terrorists then and there and saying the terrorists had died in an "encounter" with the police, wink wink nod nod. Was it brutal? Yes. Were innocents killed? By American definition of innocent, we have no doubt they were. Was it effective? Yes. Within a very few years the insurgency was finished.
Were human rights violated? Yes. But weren't the terrorists violating the human rights of 25-million on a large scale? And - as we've said - the terrorists paralyzed the criminal justice system. This wasn't Northern Ireland, folks, where 3000 people were killed in 20 years. That was a 90-day total for the Punjab - not every 90-days, but you get the point. So what else could be done?
When we say "American definition of innocent", we should explain that America may be the only country in the world where two men can get together to kill another, and if caught one can actually use the defense "I didn't fire the fatal shot". That doesn't save you from jail, but it can spare you the death penalty. Singapore has it right: you carry a gun and fire it during the commission of a crime, you're eligible to hang. No one cares what your intent was, and in any case intent is subjective. You had a gun. That means you were prepared to use it. You fired the gun. You intended to kill someone, and that he was only wounded or escaped unharmed is quite irrelevant. Had things played out a little differently, the victim could be dead. You cannot let someone escape with his life because he was either incompetent and didn't kill a person he shot at, otr it was the person's good luck he survived.
In any case, folks, what's merciful and respecting human rights when you lock up people for the rest of their lives in an American prison. And what's merciful about keeping people on death row for 10 years or more?
If you go for the "better 100 guilty men go free than one innocent die" then perhaps the American system makes sense. But if you're fighting a war - as the Indians were in the Punjab and Kashmir and the Israelis are, then you cannot use normal criminal procedure.
We've asked this question before. The Washington Metro area is about the size of Baghdad, population-wise. Now suppose 100 civilians a day are being blown up with bombs, or simply slaughtered in cold blood. Can any American please tell us: how long will you insist that human rights of suspects and captured terrorists be respected? Ten days? Two weeks?
So don't judge other countries like India who are democracies and trying to protect themselves.
As for the Israelis, we've said before. Its their business what they do with their terrorists. But the great revolutionary fighter you let go has given his thanks publicly: he has said he will be back.
Re: “The gentleman who was one of the five live persons (and 199 cadavers, some held for 30 years) Israel traded for the bodies of two of its soldiers is in the news. He vows to continue the struggle.
Well, last time he shot a civilian father in front of his 4-year girl, and then crushed her skull with his rifle butt. “
If this individual had not been captured alive in the first place, he would not be a problem today.
Mr. Rikhye,regards, sir.
He should be more widely read.
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Israel - here’s a suggestion. Next time do a like-exchange, cadavers for cadavers.
Too bad that Osama is still free after all these years.
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