# How would you punish Osama bin Laden?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 27, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526 "2004-10-27T19:55:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526/201 "2004-10-30T20:15:34Z")
Make him live next door to my crazy neighbors. He’d spit polish all their lawn ornaments until they shined!
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526/202 "2004-10-30T20:25:28Z")
Now that we know he’s alive, make him watch ALL the Bush-Kerry & gay marriage debate ads.
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526/203 "2004-11-02T01:15:23Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> And that’s really one of the most key points. Any time we torture them, we are making it legitimate for them to torture us. We are giving them _permission_ to torture American POWs. We are saying that torture is now inbounds. Please torture those pilots you shot down yesterday. You can’t just decide that Americans have some authority that the enemy doesn’t have. Whatever we say it’s ok for us to do, we are also saying it’s ok for them to do.
But don’t you get it, it’s ok when _we_ do it, it’s only when _they_ do it to us that its bad to torture people!
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### Author:  [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526/204 "2004-11-02T01:21:35Z")
First I’d havce everybody related to the people killed in 911 walk bare foot on him back and forth. I’d cut him up still alive and put his body parts in a sausage machine along with various pig parts. Then I’d make osama chili dogs and feed them to a pack of stray dogs.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-punish-osama-bin-laden/271526/205 "2004-11-02T19:12:46Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#):
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> This is why I’m saying it should only be done under certain circumstance
The only way to insure that is to withhold any sort of legal sanction – if you think you have to torture somebody to get vital information, go ahead and do it, knowing that it will send you to prison, or to the chair.
Whining about such consequences, in the context of your “it’s the only way to stop them from nuking Manhattan” premise, is 100% pure unmitigated chickenshit.
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