Are we going to throw him in gitmo? Or is that just for the brown people?
If he lives in an apartment building, are we going to blow the whole thing up with a drone, killing everyone in there? After all, the people in there should of known better than to associate with a terrorist, or is just that how we do it for the brown people?
Will we try him in a court of law, where evidence against him is weighed and a case is presented for a jury and judge to decide? Or will we hold him in prison without ever filing charges against him indefinitely… no wait that’s wrong, make that until the “War on terror” is over. Or is that just what we do to the brown people?
You should probably be focussing on US citizen on US soil vs foreigner on foreign soil rather than white vs brown. It doesn’t make the answers any more palatable though.
I wasn’t trying to spell out what your mother calls you, so no…
Probably right.
Why not draw parallels? I think they sometimes elucidate by putting things into context.
My point is - we would do horrible things to people who are only suspected of having done something like this, as well as to people around those suspected - innocent or not, simply because they are brown and live elsewhere.
Why? And why not do the same thing here? Does it stop being evil when the actions are done across some imaginary border? Or is it always evil?
Thank you for that correction, sir. Even thought it would have been more useful had it come 4 minutes after my post, I remain grateful.
First we will ship them to Gitmo, then we will hold them indefinately while simultainiously killing them with a drone strike and then to assuage our collective rage, invade Sweden.
Well, not so much fishing for, but hoping for something like:
“Hey you know, we should probably deal with terrorists abroad in a way that is similar to how we deal with them internally, so you know, we don’t seem like a bunch asshole hypocrites, willing to inflict atrocities on anyone, NOT American.”
Why would we do that when we could, say, call the police? Last I checked, Boston is not in a state of lawlessness and insurrection where the police department is nonexistant and the government is openly sheltering the bomber.
I know this is the Pit, but who’d have jurisidiction to try the suspects; Massachusetts, the feds, or both? Since MA doesn’t have the death penalty it’s kind of a major issue.
I imagine there are both state and federal crimes they can be prosecuted under. It will be a negotiation between the DAs and politicians as to which charges get filed first.