Posted on 08/13/2010 9:59:12 AM PDT by kristinn
“Mr. Assange said he still fears that the U.S. is trying to have him arrested for publishing the classified documents.”
I should think that would be one of the least of his worries.
It’s hard to believe that he’s still alive.
His head would look good on a pike.
And you wonder why no one takes anything you say seriously! ROFLMAO!
"Anyone even remotely associated with the piece of human excrement known as Julian Assange"
You are also the one expressing admiration for the oriental and distinctly unamerican tradition of punishing the families of criminals as well as the criminal themselves:
"I like your idea very, very much. In both China & Japan the families were made to suffer for the crimes of a family member. Kept the crime rate down and besides, the apple does not fall too far from the tree."
And yet, you are the one accusing me and Andronicles of admiring collectivists and tyrants including the PRC, which we have specifically condemned in our posts repudiating your nonsensical ravings. Do you even read your own BS, or do your just slam into your keyboard whatever crap comes into your head at that moment and then forget about it, thereafter assuming of and accusing anyone who disagrees of being a Stalin-worshiping socialist, which, as I've already mentioned, is hilariously ironic considering the views you have espoused on this very thread would suggest that you are the one with a closer ideological affinity with a mass-murdering communist tyrant...
Collective punishment works, and is the kindest in the long run. Alexander the Great new that if he levelled a village or city he would meet less futile resistance, and he would save his own men’s and his opponents men’s lives in the long run.
If the US had remembered this lesson it would have avoided the futile blood-letting of Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan.
This isn’t like inflicting collateral damage in war, which is sometimes a tragic and unavoidable necessity.
What we are talking about here is specifically targeting innocent individuals merely for having a familial association with a guilty individual, and such a policy by its very nature could only ever be implemented by a ruthless tyranny and not in any country which claimed to be a free one, and certainly not by a country which believed in individual, rather than collective rights...
Yep, that's right, I said you are ignorant because you are. Even though Assange will not pull the trigger that will kill helpless Afghans and brave American warriors, his actions will allow those things to happen. He is just as guilty of murder as the Taliban is. And those who are accomplices to a crime are also guilty of the crime as well. This is a point well established in criminal law. And if you weren't so ignorant, you would know that Assange is constantly traveling, staying at the homes of his friends and co-conspirators around the world as he sets up his hidden servers.
Assange has committed an act of was against the U.S. and the Afghan people, but to you it doesn't matter - all you care about is your ridiculous attempt at moral and intellectual superiority.
You fail at both.
Anyway, I don't really expect you to get it, your mind is as closed as a steel trap, closed by your own misguided sense of self-righteousness.
I said Assange deserves to be punished, and probably with the death penalty, and you didn’t say ‘co-conspirators’ you said ‘anyone remotely associated with’... him. Including his family members. Your son is doing something we should all be grateful for, and you should be proud of him for it, but still, I disagree with what you say about targeting the family members of Julian Assange. However, this is clearly an emotive subject for you so I’ll just let it drop. I hope your son returns safe and well.
Actually, you never made any worthwhile points, you were to tripping over you feet in your haste to pursue ad hominem attacks.
Attacking the man and not the message is the surest sign of desperation, my angry little friend.
May the lord take you and gift you with wisdom and patience.
Mark Twain agreed with him...
December 8. A couple of curious war-monuments here at Wanganui. One is in honor of white men “who fell in defence of law and order against fanaticism and barbarism.” ... Patriotism is patriotism. Calling it Fanaticism cannot degrade it: nothing can degrade it. Even though it be a political mistake, and a thousand times a political mistake, that does not affect it; it is honorable — always honorable, always noble — and privileged to hold its head up and look the nations in the face. It is right to praise these brave white men who fell in the Maori war — they deserve it; but the presence of that word detracts from the dignity of their cause and their deeds, and makes them appear to have spilled their blood in a conflict with ignoble men, men not worthy of that costly sacrifice. But the men were worthy. It was no shame to fight them. They fought for their homes, they fought for their country; they bravely fought and bravely fell: and it would take nothing from the honor of the brave Englishmen who lie under the monument, but add to it, to say that they died in defense of English laws and English homes against men worthy of the sacrifice — the Maori patriots.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Give me a break, you are the one who never made any good points, just useless foolishness. But I guess if you actually believe you made any good points, you can be happy in your delusion.
Thank you. I’m sorry if I’ve irritated you - I wouldn’t have engaged in correspondence with you had I been aware of your situation, but I’ve been alerted to it now, so we’ll leave it at that.
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