Blair's evidence against Bin Laden

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Oct 5 17:42:24 PDT 2001



> Problem is, when you take the law into your own hands, appoint yourself
> judge and jury, you see yourself as Charles Bronson or Clint Eastwood, but
> to everyone else you look like John Wayne Gacey. Luke, as a fellow
bourgeois
> liberal democrat, I appeal to you, be consistent, don't make an exception
to
> due process when its' us good guys who are doing the taking names and
kickin
> butts. Not takin namesa nd kickin butts is what makes the good guys good.
> That's why the Israelis are really really bad guys, not jsut because
they're
> insane and violent, but because they cloak their murderous ethnic
cleansing
> in the name of Western democracy.
>
> jks

If the cost of due process is a gigantic amount of preventable human suffering, I wouldn't expect any government to pick up the tab. What makes the Israelis really bad guys is that they don't give the slightest consideration to the interests of the Palestinians.

-- Luke



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