Freedom is expensive. People die because of our rights and freedoms. Guilty people go free because of our rights and freedoms. Bad people get away with murder because of our rights and freedoms.
You can move to a country where they are safer, and have fewer rights. This country is founded under the principle that liberty, freedom, and the right to be left alone are valued above security and safety. In fact, we have the freedom (or we should, and used to have) to provide our own safety and security.
If you are going to argue that it's OK now for police to shoot innocent people because they are forced to by terrorist tactics, I'm going to have to disagree with you.
If you are going to argue that illegal immigrants are such a huge threat that it's OK now to shoot unarmed people in the back if we simply THINK they MIGHT be illegal immigrants, well I'm going to disagree with you as well.
Because once you justify shooting an suspected illegal in the back, you can justify shooting a suspected ANYTHING in the back -- and police are really good at SUSPECTING PEOPLE OF THINGS.
I spent 21 years in the military and fought in 3 wars. Thanks for the information.
Guilty people go free because of our rights and freedoms. Bad people get away with murder because of our rights and freedoms.
What? That sounds like some weird speech an ACLU defense attorney would spew on Oprah.
Our justice system isn't perfect, only God's justice is.
The rest of your post is somewhere between a basic civics lesson, a strange strand of Libertarianism, and some "shouting" by typing in all CAPITOL LETTERS.
I was not arguing it was OK now for police to shoot innocent people because they are forced to by terrorist tactics. If you had the sense to draw a parallel between what Professor Dershowitz was saying and this case involving the border agents, you would have seen what all the other posters have been trying to say to you. To wit: we play by civilized rules, but our enemies exploit those rules. It is a gross mistake by the Bush Administration to take the side of a drug running illegal invader - period.
We are not talking about innocent women and children in Waco Texas coming under fire from the BATF here. This case is the equivalent of Mike Nifong's bastardization of the law.
Alas, I have read what you have posted to everyone else, and I see you have dug in your heels and would rather go down with the Titanic rather than admit you are wrong.