Since we’re already in BBQ Pit, I can ask a question I’ve wondered about. Did Ten-Kyu use to have a brain? Dopers respond to him as though he were a sentient human. I’m guessing he once was, had a stroke that left him a blithering idiot, and Dopers tolerate him now out of pity. No?
No, you are just stupid.
Regards,
Shodan
It is a huge win to get a Republican to admit the strategy existed, now let’s work on getting one to admit that it still exists, although it has shifted from fear of blacks (althought they still love to play that race card when they can) to Muslims, illegals, and gays. The Ukrainians have a great saying: “new pants; but the same ass.”
They only said this when you changed your underwear.
Regards,
Shodan
What the fuck? Did some petulant 12 year old hack Shodan’s passwords or something?
I’m a bit confused as well, so far as I can remember, that’s the only three words he’s addressed to me in, like, ten years? What, is there a “change of life” for guys? Manopause?
Posting while drunk?
OBL.
What do I win?
Did your shift leader make you cut off your mullet? Don’t let it get you angry, it’s a food safety issue.
Nothing.
Many of us did not shed a tear when bin laden was killed, however… we still did not applaud and go “fuck ya” when it occurred. Better that he should have been brought back for a trial, so the US could have showed the world that it was about justice, rather than paramilitary executions, but whatever.
Well, OK, a trial. What, exactly, do we mean “trial”? Set on extreme way over here, Stalin’s show trials, where evidence, reason, and any semblance of justice is moot. Set the other extreme at the objective, evidence driven trials Americans aspire to.
Could we find OBL guilty with the same procedures we extend to streeet criminals? Could we prove it, or would we fall back to “Fuck it, we know he’s guilty.”
I’m betting thats one of the major reasons we don’t try the Guantanamo detainees. We may have very good reason to think some of those people cannot be released. But we can’t prove it. Hearsay, evidence gained through harsh interrogation? Nightmare.
From AWAD today:
[QUOTE=Albert Camus]
But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
[/QUOTE]
In some states the cause of death for an executed prisoner is homicide. What else can you call it? I suppose cruel and unusual punishment.
Of course such monsters are encountered in private life, and then when they are caught they are frequently put into institutions at the taxpayers expense. However, those folks tend to confine and kill innocent people, not people who have committed a serious offense(s) against society. There is a big difference.
You call it what it was - electrocution, lethal injection, whatever. Hard to believe that any state would call it homicide.