re: #188 Existential_Donuts

People seem to have no faith in our criminal legal system, they would rather literally lock people away forever instead of stand them up before our laws. I don’t even know how to react to that sort of mindset.

I am assuming you are OK with the fact that the terrorists who tried to bomb the airliner were released? It is almost certain that we did not have strong evidence on them or they would never have been released. The same is true of the others we have released who have later engaged in attacks.

There is simply no way we had good evidence on people we have already released or transferred. It is highly likely that even many of those we did hold onto will be released when the civilian courts fail to convict them.

I admire your high minded sense of justice and civil rights. I hope you are OK with bodies dropping from the sky and other atrocities. It is unlikely they will not keep trying.

Personally I trust the US military and Intelligence services to do the right thing and get the right people, under the supervision of the Commander in Chief.

These are extreme circumstances and we are dealing with ruthless and dangerous people. We should be spending less time agonising about the alleged “rights” of the few terrorists we manage to capture, and spend more time increasing the number of prisoners.

If we have learned anything from Bush’s mistake in releasing these two monsters, it is that we need to hold on to more of the suspects we have in custody.