Hot = Well Fed to you?
Or are you talking about a different Texas?
And the roots do not show too often.
Duhhh! We have held these people without due process for how long?
If we cannot convict them we owe them a lot more thna welfare checks. We pretty much wrecked their lives.
and if we were talking about people held in Pakistani prison camps, I'd agree with you. We are not, however, dealing with Pakistani prison camp detainees.Dude... "Due Process" is a right granted to American citizens through the Constitution. It simply doesn't have jurisdiction in Pakistani terror camps. In fact, the foundational principles and basis for "due process" is much of what the radical Islamics are...uh..like...pissed about. American freedoms and liberties are not...like... conducive to Sharia. Dude.
and if they were chinese seperatists, why shouldn't we do anything in our power to get them the hell back over there and use that training?These people were in Pakistan, fugitives from China, training with terrorists to become terrorists themselves, because they obviously believe in what the terrorists believe in, otherwise, they wouldn't have been in Pakistan, training in terrorist camps with terrorists! Now you can let your little liberal heart bleed for Ching Chow, I don't care... we the American taxpayers, do NOT owe him a welfare check! Get fucking real!
and if we were talking about people held in Pakistani prison camps, I'd agree with you. We are not, however, dealing with Pakistani prison camp detainees.
Nobody said anything about Prison Camps! These Chinese separatists were in a terror training camp we raided in Pakistan. (You know, that place Obama is currently bombing the hell out of!) They were there training as terrorists! Not prisoners being held against their will. We captured them, designated them as 'enemy combatants' because there is no Geneva Convention protocol for handling them as P.O.W.'s, and sent them to Gitmo.
and if they were chinese seperatists, why shouldn't we do anything in our power to get them the hell back over there and use that training?
Well the article I posted is about Chinese separatists who are apparently now eligible for government assistance to start their new lives in America. I don't really understand if that was a question, or what... but I agree, we should do everything in our power to see they are shipped to China, in accordance with the law. That beats the hell out of paying their welfare checks, or dealing with the consequences of releasing their terrorist asses into the general population.
I understand that they are not in, or were in, a Pakistan prison camp, but they are being held at Gitmo. A facility, military base, under the authority of the United States Government, of which the constitution has strict power over. The argument that they are not on American soil does not wash with me.Nobody said anything about Prison Camps! These Chinese separatists were in a terror training camp we raided in Pakistan. (You know, that place Obama is currently bombing the hell out of!) They were there training as terrorists! Not prisoners being held against their will. We captured them, designated them as 'enemy combatants' because there is no Geneva Convention protocol for handling them as P.O.W.'s, and sent them to Gitmo.
Dude... "Due Process" is a right granted to American citizens through the Constitution. It simply doesn't have jurisdiction in Pakistani terror camps. In fact, the foundational principles and basis for "due process" is much of what the radical Islamics are...uh..like...pissed about. American freedoms and liberties are not...like... conducive to Sharia. Dude.
These people were in Pakistan, fugitives from China, training with terrorists to become terrorists themselves, because they obviously believe in what the terrorists believe in, otherwise, they wouldn't have been in Pakistan, training in terrorist camps with terrorists! Now you can let your little liberal heart bleed for Ching Chow, I don't care... we the American taxpayers, do NOT owe him a welfare check! Get fucking real!
If ANYTHING, our efforts extended their pathetic, third world, terrorist-training-ass-kissing lives for 8 more years! They owe US for THAT! If we are going to let these people out, we should deport their asses back to China, where they came from. What happens to them then, I really don't give a shit! THEY ARE TERRORISTS! DUMBASS!
Dude... "Due Process" is a right granted to American citizens through the Constitution. It simply doesn't have jurisdiction in Pakistani terror camps. In fact, the foundational principles and basis for "due process" is much of what the radical Islamics are...uh..like...pissed about. American freedoms and liberties are not...like... conducive to Sharia. Dude.
These people were in Pakistan, fugitives from China, training with terrorists to become terrorists themselves, because they obviously believe in what the terrorists believe in, otherwise, they wouldn't have been in Pakistan, training in terrorist camps with terrorists! Now you can let your little liberal heart bleed for Ching Chow, I don't care... we the American taxpayers, do NOT owe him a welfare check! Get fucking real!
If ANYTHING, our efforts extended their pathetic, third world, terrorist-training-ass-kissing lives for 8 more years! They owe US for THAT! If we are going to let these people out, we should deport their asses back to China, where they came from. What happens to them then, I really don't give a shit! THEY ARE TERRORISTS! DUMBASS!
I understand that they are not in, or were in, a Pakistan prison camp, but they are being held at Gitmo. A facility, military base, under the authority of the United States Government, of which the constitution has strict power over. The argument that they are not on American soil does not wash with me.
You have NO understanding of what the constitution is. The constitution does NOT give rights, it prescribes powers to a government. That is all. It was written based on the assumption that all people had rights and that the assigned powers to the government were given to that government to function. ALL people have rights when under the jurisdiction of the US government. End of story.The Americans who work at Gitmo have Constitutional protections. Non-American citizens who were captured in Pakistan, do not have Constitutional rights. Sorry! We are in a WAR... people we encounter in wars, do NOT have Constitutional rights, we do NOT have to read them MARANDA before we shoot them! You have a gross misunderstanding of what is and isn't covered by the Constitution.
It is totally assinine to attempt to differentiate enemy combatants from enemy soldiers. They are one and the same. Be it soldiers of Iraq/Afghanistan or terrorists, they are all enemies. Personally, they should have all been shot on the battlefield, this is war afterall, but they weren't so we should have to deal with them as POWs.And again... they were NOT IN A PRISON CAMP.... That is a place where you would keep captured POW's... If that were the case, I could understand being considerate of their well being, I could understand doing all we could to help them, and I would be a little disturbed that we shipped them off to a detention center in Cuba, if they were POW's! They were NOT POW's! They were Muslim Chinese separatists who were apprehended at a TERROR TRAINING CAMP.... (little different than a POW camp!)
Dennis Blair Press Conference 3/27/09
"We can't put them out on the street," he said.
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Well this is just lovely! Our 401k's are tanking, we have no retirement left, our Social Security is gone, and we're headed toward $2 trillion deficits, but we're now going to issue welfare checks to former Gitmo detainees! ...So they can start their new lives in the US!
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You have NO understanding of what the constitution is. The constitution does NOT give rights, it prescribes powers to a government. That is all. It was written based on the assumption that all people had rights and that the assigned powers to the government were given to that government to function. ALL people have rights when under the jurisdiction of the US government. End of story.
It is totally assinine to attempt to differentiate enemy combatants from enemy soldiers. They are one and the same. Be it soldiers of Iraq/Afghanistan or terrorists, they are all enemies. Personally, they should have all been shot on the battlefield, this is war afterall, but they weren't so we should have to deal with them as POWs.
Release them in San Fransisco!....
It's a real wonder someone hasn't completely eliminated liberals by now.
Msg 7. If our intelligence leads us to a terrorist training camp, and we apprehend the terrorists training there, and some of them happen to be Chinese Muslim separatists.... are we supposed to leave them there and let them continue training?
Now, since we didn't kill them and we showed them compassion of US government protective custody for 8 years, 3-squares a day, warm place to sleep, far from the reaches of their enemies.
Okay, so let me get this straight... If our intelligence leads us to a terrorist training camp, and we apprehend the terrorists training there, and some of them happen to be Chinese Muslim separatists.... are we supposed to leave them there and let them continue training? Are we supposed to send them back to China then? What exactly was supposed to be done in this instance... I'm unclear on that.
We chose to take them to Gitmo, instead of ...oh, I don't know... killing them with a big MOAB bomb... or turning them back over to face reprisal from the Chinese government. Now, since we didn't kill them and we showed them compassion of US government protective custody for 8 years, 3-squares a day, warm place to sleep, far from the reaches of their enemies... now we must give them government assistance while they embark on their new American lives?
It's a real wonder someone hasn't completely eliminated liberals by now.
Yes, exactly!
Are we going to hunt down people who get together in private homes discussing terrorist tactics? Arrest disgruntled private citizens who spend their time cursing the government over a beer?
Those terrorists are thousands of miles away. They can’t do a damn thing.
911 was not some mastermind plot devised by a race of super beings. Any high school graduate with a bit of flight training could have pulled it off just as Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bomber) killed over 150 people and injured hundreds more with nothing but a truck containing readily available goods and the knowledge of a high school student.
Are we going to arrest everyone who rents a similar truck or buys the products for fertilizer or who lives in a cabin by themselves?
How many of those terrorist camp trainees would have the opportunity to get here and do anything? Or, more to the point, how many were plotting specifically against the US?
It makes about as much sense as going door to door seeking out possible B&E perpetrators rather than securing ones own home.
And don’t forget all the water play they could handle.
Nooo, not the sex kind. The board kind.