Believe me, it cringes every time I hear this guy's lawyer complain about his treatment. Unfortunetly it is how things must go, because we have due process and a constintution to protect those who are on trial, heh, otherwise we would be like those like the ilk of Walker. It's sad, none of those who avocate the fudenmenalist Islamic state would ever both with such concepts like trial by jury, due process, lawyers for the defendent, or no cruel or unusual punishment. Such ideas are only for us 'evil' infidel types.
Not wanting to "me too" brianblackberry or the other posters, but this country plays by the rules spelled out in the Constitution. That's what distinguishes us from Stalin's USSR or much of the Middle East.
We're not a great country just because we're "good people." We're a great country because we give people equal rights and don't persecute minorities as much as the rest of the world does. That's what makes us so attractive to immigrants and what riles up religious fanatics, whether Muslim or Christian.
Too many of the people who would throw out the Constitution in Lindh's case would all too gladly put in a Christian version of Sharia (Islamic law) and use it to persecute their idea of infidels.
Heh...
Date: 2002-06-15 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-15 07:08 pm (UTC)My bloody-well-ignorant opinion, buthey... :o)
Its sucks but...
Date: 2002-06-15 11:33 pm (UTC)It's sad, none of those who avocate the fudenmenalist Islamic state would ever both with such concepts like trial by jury, due process, lawyers for the defendent, or no cruel or unusual punishment. Such ideas are only for us 'evil' infidel types.
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Date: 2002-06-16 01:30 am (UTC)We're not a great country just because we're "good people." We're a great country because we give people equal rights and don't persecute minorities as much as the rest of the world does. That's what makes us so attractive to immigrants and what riles up religious fanatics, whether Muslim or Christian.
Too many of the people who would throw out the Constitution in Lindh's case would all too gladly put in a Christian version of Sharia (Islamic law) and use it to persecute their idea of infidels.