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Thompson: Due process for bin Laden
Yahoo News/ The Associated Press ^
| 09/10/2007
| JIM DAVENPORT
Posted on 09/10/2007 3:02:19 PM PDT by plain old dave
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson said Monday that while Osama bin Laden needs to be caught and killed, the terrorist mastermind would get the due process of law.
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To: Millers Cave
Al-Qaeda are terrorists and war criminals. They do not deserve due process. They deserve summary execution on the battlefield.
To: Names Ash Housewares
The trolls will use anything to hit fred with, even when it doesn’t make any sense.
Thompson is 100% correct on this issue, as he has been with every issue he has been talking about on the stump.
To: Hoffer Rand
Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeus corpus during the Civil War and jailed journalists just for criticizing the war. He was right, and we need that kind of resolve today. Bin Laden is an animal. He does not deserve the protections of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
To: rhombus
Exactly. Bin Laden’s head should be put on a stick and displayed to the world. Anyone who killed bin Laden would be a great hero and we would reward them, due process be damned.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Al-Qaeda are terrorists and war criminals. They do not deserve due process. They deserve summary execution on the battlefield. I know that. So why do so many on this thread think we should treat Osama better than Al-Qaeda?
To: Millers Cave
The combatants in Gitmo are prisoners of an ongoing war.
The Nuremberg trials were not held until after the war had ended.
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:23:23 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(Ron Paul is gearing up to be Hillary Clinton's Ross Perot.)
To: Millers Cave
“Excuse me if I’m confused but I thought Bush has been arguing against due process for terrorists since the git-go.”
No, “due process” can also be a military tribunal. It gets a little fuzzy since ultimately the government defines “due process”. ;-)
To: traderrob6
I believe the preferred term is “Paulistians.”
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:23:51 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: SergeiRachmaninov
and what the meaning of “process” is.Process, verb,: acquire, identify, lase, release, then conduct BDA.
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:24:44 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: counterpunch
They are not prisoners of war. They are illegal combatants. War has not even been declared.
To: plain old dave
I say we give him more than due process. We start the process with a cattle-prod rewired for 220 and a bucket full of salt water.
He’s due at least that,y’know.
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:26:48 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
To: plain old dave
Oh, I forgot:
Fred Thompson ‘08! :-)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Not being a lawyer myself even I was puzzled by this statement until I read the posts. I read the article, and I still am confused. I attribute that to a poorly written article. Anybody got an in-context transcript of what Thompson actually said, and the actual wording of the question he was replying to?
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:28:27 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
To: Greg F
Plain Old Dave ... (P.O.D) Person.
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:28:47 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
To: plain old dave
There’s some solid thinking in this idea. There is a veteran terrorist expert/operative who had suggested much the same thing several months ago when asked what would be the best way to handle a capture of BL if it occurred, rather than if he was killed outright.
He said a trial (with results like Hussein’s) would be the best solution, that way, the creation of a mega-martyr would be less likely and the end result would be the same, so maybe Thompson is on point here...
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:31:37 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(B-Co. 2/69 3rd Infantry Div., "Sledgehammer!" ...and keep hammering 'em!)
To: plain old dave
Did you even read the article you just posted?
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:31:58 PM PDT
by
crazyhorse691
(The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
To: JennysCool
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:33:31 PM PDT
by
Greg F
(Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
To: plain old dave
Getting your ....."due... processed"?
Is that a euphemism for being repeatedly sodomized in prison?....
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:35:36 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(You need to have standards to fail and be a hypocrite, Dem's therefor are never hypocrites)
To: plain old dave
Works for me.
Catch him. Kill him. That is one hell of a due process.
To: plain old dave
Nation of laws, nothing changes just because you catch a mass murderer. On the other hand, if a 500 pounder were to drop in, case closed.
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posted on
09/10/2007 3:37:51 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
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