# adaher, you cowardly shit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaher-you-cowardly-shit/737798 "2015-11-17T13:39:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaher-you-cowardly-shit/737798/1 "2015-11-17T13:39:39Z")
From the SRIOTD thread: > [@adaher](#): > > I guarantee you, and I’d stake money on it, that a terror attack is more likely than a single lynching, and I’d give you 10-1 odds on it. > > We know there will be terrorists among the refugees. So basically we’re willing to sell some American lives for political correctness. Fine. Own it then. > [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25540): > > Internment was wrong and FDR is still a hero of Democrats because Social Security. And you call me scum. > > I’m just advocating keeping risky refugees from emigrating here. > > But what’s more disturbing is that you’re not willng to take responsibility. I’m the bad guy for not getting on board with being willing to trade American lives for whatever the hell it is you believe in. You are. So again. OWN IT. Your whining that Americans are pieces of shit when they turn your guys out of office for this will be duly noted. You are welcome to seek refuge in Germany if you don’t like it. They are taking all comers now. You’re perfectly willing to trade American lives when it’s sending soldiers off to yet another war in the Middle East, so let’s not pretend this is about that. This is about you being a snivelling coward. Like all the right-wing talking heads, you don’t care how many innocents suffer from the policies you advocate as long as you can feel safe. Never mind that these policies don’t work, and that they won’t actually keep you safe; as long as you can hurt someone and then put the blame on someone else when it all goes wrong you don’t give a damn. Because you’re afraid, and that trumps everything. I live in London these days. I travel on public transport, work in the financial district, and in general spend a lot of time in areas that are prime targets for terrorist attack. My family lives in America and I fly frequently back and forth to visit them. I rode the Tube the morning of the 7/7 attacks, and indeed I was here back when the IRA were still setting off bombs (one of which went off across the street from my current location). I know the risks and I also know that punishing millions for the sins of a few is a price too high to pay, even if the few one day kill me. Perhaps you should put your own life up against your principles rather than those of American soldiers and war refugees - assuming you have any principles, that is. So don’t you fucking lecture me about “trading American lives”, you pathetic worm; your way involves far more death and suffering than mine, and for far, far less benefit. You want to own something? OWN THAT. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaher-you-cowardly-shit/737798)._