Posted on 02/14/2002 9:32:29 AM PST by gopusa.com
Over just the past few days several "international experts", leaders in academia, and reporters have repeated a high-brow notion that is generally accepted as fact among the "educated" sect; "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". Watch the news for a day or two and I'm sure it will be repeated. I pose the question here: is it really the truth? Or is it just simply another leftist assumption taken for granted in academia and the media that puts us on the slippery slope to anti-Americanism?
Long-winded, convoluted, circular arguments can be made either way - but let 's cut to the chase here. Can anyone say that UBL or the terrorists that attacked America on 9-11 were fighting for "freedom"? In his last known interview UBL said, "I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed." Could it be any clearer?
Read the complete column at http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/ts_0214.shtml
Better for 100 guilty men to go free, rather than wrongly convict 1 innocent man (paraphrased)
When this nonsense is uttered, liberal heads nod in unison at the wisdom that some liberal Supreme Court Judge uttered at some time.
Has it ever been calculated how many rapes, murders, and assorted felonies these 100 criminals would commit? Probably in the thousands!
Man is not perfect. I can accept the occasional error in humanity. In fact, I have no choice. It just happens. However, I can prevent thousands of other crimes by incarerating those 100 criminals!
Five minutes later, they utter another inanity.
If just one life can be saved....
Sometimes I scream out. You just let go a 100 criminals. How many lives are those criminals going to eliminate?
You have no way of knowing that. You'd
rather lock up an man you know is
innocent? What if he was you?
In case you were wondering, yes, the above argument is just as baseless as yours.
One man believes it is never okay to deliberately murder citizens for any reason, including "making a statement."
Another man believes there does come a point in time and a cause "worthy" enough where deliberate killing of innocents is condoned. Whether the time is right or the cause worthy enough is up for debate.
Sometimes zero-tolerance can be scary, but this is one instance in which the alternative is the nightmare.
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