[Blue House Sue]

The IDF policy of destroying the the homes of terrorists and their families has worked to decrease the number of attacks.

Bombing and terrorism are acts of war and there is no due process on the battlefield.

[Boogieman]

“Bombing and terrorism are acts of war and there is no due process on the battlefield.”

Gee, so what is to stop your political opponents from declaring anything that you might do to be “terrorism” and revoking your due process rights, once you decide that is a good route to go in the USA?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Your use of words is entirely too loose. There's no evidence that Conditt's rampage was an act of war. It may have been an act of insanity, e.g. paranoid schizophrenia. It may have been intentional individual evil, a fully culpable crime. It was not, as far as we know, done for any military goal at all. Hence, not war as understood by the State.

There is no evidence whatsoever that applying pain to these parents would influence other parents to do "something" to suppress insanity or criminality they don't even suspect in their seemingly normal adult children.

For this reason, your drive to apply the standards of war is misplaced. Likewise unjust and unconstitutional.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I see your comment #54 was removed.

Good.

FR is still a place where the mods will uphold basic standards of sanity.