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To: Tulsa Ramjet

The U.S. is within its rights to have this terrorist hunted down and either killed or captured.

(1) There is no statute of limitations on murder.
(2) The terrorist never faced trial in a U.S. court so double jeopardy does not apply. He can be prosecuted, convicted, and sent to a little cell in a Supermax prison to live out whatever is left of his worthless life.
(3) As far as I know (not legal advice), deadly force can be used to apprehend a murder suspect who won’t surrender to law enforcement. That means U.S. authorities can and should kill him if they can’t capture him.

Obama should have the U.S. Justice Department act on this.


51 posted on 08/22/2009 3:24:25 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Winged Hussar

“Highly objectionable”....Obama uses language that an upper class twit in an old British movie would use. Come to think of it, he is rather twittish....Chamberlainesque, one might even say.


67 posted on 08/22/2009 6:24:22 PM PDT by madmominct ("Liberalism is a slow road to despotism." -- The Great One, Mark Levin)
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To: Winged Hussar

The U.S. is within its rights to have this terrorist hunted down and either killed or captured.

(1) There is no statute of limitations on murder.
(2) The terrorist never faced trial in a U.S. court so double jeopardy does not apply. He can be prosecuted, convicted, and sent to a little cell in a Supermax prison to live out whatever is left of his worthless life.
(3) As far as I know (not legal advice), deadly force can be used to apprehend a murder suspect who won’t surrender to law enforcement. That means U.S. authorities can and should kill him if they can’t capture him.


unfortunately it´s not that simple.
1. Only because in the US there is no statue of limitations on murder does not nessersary mean that every other country in this world has the same law.
2. There would have been no legal way to put him on trial in a regular cort in the US because he never commited any crime on US soil. As bizzare as this may sound but killing people in generall isn´t even illegal at all. It´s the law of the counry where you commit it which makes it illegal or not. Just a example someone who legal shoots a burgler in texas may would have been (again total legal) convicted for murder some where else.
3. Yeah sounds nice but would not be a good Idea.
Because if you kill someone in a foreign country it´s just simple a crime called murder (the law does not care who you kill) and if they catch you you will find your self soon (total legal) in a prison cell for a least a very very long time. btw. Lets assume you have killed this terrorist. (most people would not have a problem with this true) but where do you stop? Kill the inocent police officer you may encounter (who only does his job to hunt down a killer) too to get this bastard? btw. if catched this would be a political nightmare for the government.


84 posted on 08/22/2009 11:16:10 PM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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