Posted on 03/08/2002 5:49:44 PM PST by SAMWolf
Gotta love this country. It's the only nation to ever exist that can get itself kicked right between the legs by terrorist then turn around criticize the military for not treating the suicidal assailants being held with more tender loving care. Are we that forgiving or do we have some screws loose? Maybe a little of both!
Let's review. Suicidal terrorists trained under Osama Bin Ladin lived in the United States, some legally some illegally for at least two years or longer. Their entire purpose for living was to inflect a deadly blowing against America, taking out, KILLING, as many Americans as they could along the way, in the name of Allah! They succeeded in ending the lives of over 3-thousand innocent people in the most horrific and graphic fashion since Pearl Harbor. Thousands of people were crushed or burned to death or propelled into the soil at over 300 miles per hour. Their last few moments of life were filled with unimaginable pain both physically and emotionally. Some of the firefighters killed at the World Trade Center may have lived for as long as seven to eight hours buried beneath rubble, in small air pockets, waiting for their lungs to collapse or choking to death on their own vomit. Some were subjected to heat so intense it literally peeled their flesh from their bodies while they were still alive. Some choose to leap over one thousand feet to their deaths. No one was there looking after their civil rights. No one was asking them if they felt uncomfortable or if the minded being cremated alive. No one asked them if it was okay to fly their plane into the Pentagon. No one asked the flight attendants if they felt a little uncomfortable having their throats slit with box cutters. Remember these images and don't forget what happened on September 11th.
I bring this up because like many Americans I find myself greatly disturbed at all the fuss being raised over the detainees being held at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. And now, Ramsey Clark, a former attorney general and avowed civil rights activist is suing the military asking a Los Angeles judge to demand the detainees be treated in a more humane fashion. Since when does a LA judge have jurisdiction over the United States military?
Yes, I saw the pictures of the men dressed in orange jump suits, some with masks over their heads, shackled at the ankles and the wrists. They are kept in tiny wire cells living on a cement slab covered from the elements with only a tiny roof. Some of the detainees had to be dragged out of the plane with soldiers under each arm, feet dragging on the ground in defiance. In one picture it appeared that some of the soldiers were screaming at the detainees trying to get them to obey their commands. But is that torture? The military says "no". The detainees are being feed, clothed, housed, given medical treatment, exercised, and questioned about their activities. That's the rub. Clark says the detainees shouldn't be required to say anything more than their name, rank and serial number and should be allowed to be represented by attorneys. The government says as detainees they are not entitled to those privileges and the information they obtain from these avowed suicidal nut cases could help prevent the lose of other innocent lives. These are not Japanese-Americans being illegally held during the Second World War. These are men captured in Afghanistan in the act of terrorizing their own people and fighting in the name of Western genocide.
Then there are the British. The media claims in its headlines that the detainees are being abused and there's a huge rift developing between the US and Prime Minister Tony Blair. But on what facts do they make their claims? Of course this is the same media that runs stories on Elvis sights and Princess Diana conspiracy theories and the Pope fathering illegitimate children with several nuns as if they were absolute fact. The stories so angered Prime Minister Blair he sent a representative to talk directly with three of those detainees being held at a naval base in Cuba, who are also British citizens. None of those detainees complained about anything unusual, according to Blair. He says he stands by the US detainee policy 100 percent. Much a do about nothing!
This is knee-jerk at it's worst. The International Red Cross is on the scene at the camps and will issue a full report. If some changes should be made they will be, says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. But if you think these Al-Quaeda members and Taliban leaders should be put in some county jail and treated like DUI defendants who check in on the weekends to walk the area's roadway picking up trash you've got a screw lose. These are men who have vowed to kill as many of their marine captors as possible by sacrificing their own lives. These are men who believe in order to achieve immortality they must destroy the Great Satan by any means… period. For security reasons alone they must be treated differently and are.
Come to think of it, here's a better solution. Let's take Ramsey Clark and all the other ACLU lawyers and civil rights activists and members of the British press who want these detainees treated with kid gloves and put them on their own little island with the detainees. We'll supply all the food and beds and water and cable TV and evening movies and set up a bunch of remote cameras so we can watch. It's not that I actually want to see what would happen, but it would be nice to have a record for other generations to watch and learn as these poor, ill-treated, misunderstood, Al-Quaeda members doing what they do best; murder innocent Americans and other westerners who are too soft for their own good and have too quickly forgotten the horrors of September 11th.
Good one Sam.
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I believe the scientific term is "certified whack job...."
I believe the scientific term is "certified whack job...."
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They let him out for 2 hours a month and he thinks he is cured.
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