If you think any of this is acceptable, stop reading. You are either evil, stupid, or insane and I have nothing more to say to you.
Note that "any of this" includes the following:
1. The courts have said it is okay for the government to wiretap suspected terrorists as long as there is credible reason to believe they are aiding and abetting terrorist organizations. As Rush Limbaugh has been at great pains to point out in the last couple of weeks, NO that doesn't mean Joe and Jane Sixpack are now under threat of having their phones monitored.
2. "Military tribunals" are for TERRORISTS. Is that REALLY so hard to understand?
3. "Afghan detainees" mean "people who were caught IN AFGHANISTAN, in a theater of war, making war upon Americans and aiding and abetting those who slaughtered Americans on 9/11."
4. We as a society are being overrun by a handful of people who look at the rest of us as a "herd" that they can "cull" for their sadistic and perverted pleasure. We're trying to figure out how to handle the fact that, since we know longer just shoot the b*st*rds or hang 'em high when they rape and torture children for their sexual gratification--as earlier generations wisely did--we have to try to prevent them from doing more raping and killing when they are released back into their natural habitat. Sorry if it offends you that these people should be monitored the rest of their lives, but the evidence is overwhelming that they can't be cured, and I consider the well-being of my family, and the families of other Americans, far more precious than the "freedom" of these monsters to destroy more lives.
In short, as much as I hate to admit it (and likely for different reasons), Mr. Smith, this Democrat is right.
You ARE an *sshole.
You are right. I much prefer shooting and hanging sexual predators. I believe only Louisiana still has the death penality as an option for Child rape.
Rape, Crimes Against Nature, Sodomy, and Child Molestation should all be returned to Capital Crimes Status.
I am willing to bet that Mr. Smith is a libertarian.
Libertarians are probably further left than most democrats on Social Issues. Especially on Sexual Perversions. The Libertarian party platform is Pro-Abortion, Pro-Homosexual, Pro-Adultery, Pro-Fornication, Pro-Pornography, Pro-Prostitution, Pro-Sexual Perversion.
Most Libertarians want to be free to have sex with anyone they want. Libertarian members of this very forum have posted that they favor lowering the age of consent, because it is not the government's business who has sex with who or how old they are, They have posted in favor of adultery, fornication, and even bigamy and beastality.
Libertarians are as much a threat to this nation as the democrats and greens.