Okay, We americans are going through an awful lot of trouble to catch this Osama Bin Laden jackass. Now admitedly, we’re having problems, but hre’s my question for you…
What do we do with him, when we get him?
Do we give him the chair? put him in prison for life? i mean, IS there an appropriate punishment for one so obviously evil?
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He should be treated like any other evil person.
Assuming he’s still alive, and we catch him, he should be tried on 2000+ counts of murder one. If he is then convicted, he should be executed.
As charming as visceral thoughts of revenge might be, I have to go with the civilized route and support a trial, with execution by lethal injection upon possible conviction. Creating elaborate death scenarios is kinda pointless. Just so long as the man ends up dead (after trial), I’m okay.
Of course, if the CIA wants to “question” him for a while, I can’t say I’d mind too much.
There has been much worse criminal than him in the past, and they have been dealt with in the same way than other criminal.
No reason that “special” punishments should be in order for this person.
Anyway, “evil” is very subjective, and even even outside the realm of mass-murderers, I could certainly think of people I would consider more “evil”. The number of victims is not a good measure of evil as far as I’m concerned…
Running my mind back to a “Philosophy of Law” class one remembers being struck at: 1) How many different reasons people have for punishment, and 2) How little recognition there is others have entirely different reasons. So, is punishment for:
Depending on what your answer is, what to do with Osama-been-Llama would vary.
For myself, I don’t care, in his case, about 1, 2, or 3. However 4 and 5 are important. To me, mind you, I realize other people will want different things.
So, if only 4 and 5 are important, I prefer reforming him to the point where he realizes what a bad thing he has done to Islam, the United States, and to the world at large. Then have him make a public statement, explaining why he was wrong.
The truly evil should be truly tried and upon a guilty judgment, truly punished.
They should be dealt with like anyone else.
Given a fair trial. Out in the open with nothing to hide.
Then, if convicted, they should face the punishment for their crimes, humanely and with dignity.
To do otherwise would be to stoop to their level, and to lose some of what makes us/you such a wonderful nation.
Revenge serves nothing. There are still 3000 or so people dead and doing horrible things to bin Laden or anybody else won’t bring them back.
No, we should not torture him to death, or anything like that.
If we keep him in prison, of course, there remains the constant temptation for other terrorists to grab hostages and use them to barter for his release. So he should die. Quickly and painlessly, and after a fair trial, but definitely.
Then burn the body to ashes and scatter them in a secret place. No shrines should spring up for this unfortunate miscreant.
And the idea of cutting off one body part at a time and forcing him to watch as they are fed to pigs is right out.
Regards,
Shodan
Just under a year ago, and for quiet some time after that, my answer would have been to take him to the top of an 80 story building, light him up with a flamethrower, and give him a good shove so he’d have some understanding of what those people who fell from the towers felt like.
But you’re right. That’s not us. We don’t do that. Dammit.
Catch him, try him, convict him, execute him. By the book. Turn it into paperwork. Send the message out to all the people who think they can attack us: we’re not going to crucify or martyr anybody for their cause. If they want to come here and commit a crime, that’s their choice, and really, there isn’t a whole lot we can do to stop them, but after a certain point, they’re just somebody’s job. They’re paperwork.
I know… we have to try and convict him legally…
but i still want to give him a sex change operation, remove his tounge, adn mail him back to Afghanistan… see how her likes being the woman.
Personally, I have the feeling that he would never make it back to the United States. There would be an “accident” on the way back in which he would be killed.
can anyone suggest an appropriate punishment for Mr. Bush, then?
Even for the war crimes since 9/11, the man should be locked up for life!!!
He points at OBL and Saddam, to draw attention away from what he’s doing himself.
liI wouldn’t like his karma, with the responsibility for taking the lives of so many of innocent Afghani people at his door - what is a fitting punishment for him?
Why do something to the man that would only confirm his beliefs about what we are? He should go to his Judgment knowing how wrong and deluded and hateful he was in life - by a trial process that represents our best, not our worst.
Assuming he’s found in Iraq, that is.
here’s another thought. if the Buffalo six are convicted, what is an apropriate punishment?
The only thing i can think of is life inprisonment. if they are let out any earlier they will simply wait and do their bad deeds when they are free again.
Damn, you’ve got a sentiment similar to mine. Do the right and just thing by convicting him legally and punishing him appropriately. However if we wanted to have “poetic justice” we could always give him his 70 maidens now, IE lock him up in a woman’s prison where he’d be out numbered at least 70-1 by violent female convicts.(Ok, that’s what I was thinging right after 911)
It’s a moot point. The man will refuse to be taken alive and fight to the death. Knowing what’s ahead of him, what’s he got to lose?
But if by some miracle he was taken alive, then fair trial followed by maximum available punishment if convicted. And that means the DP.