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Originally Posted by turnandshoot4  History shows that we picked them. We took the jews from Germany after WW2 and put them in Palestine. We can go back even further to the crusades. We picked them my friend. |
That's like saying you and I owned slaves. That's an arguement that doesn't work.
Remember, we aren't talking about cutting fingers off like the Yakuza, or putting someone on a bed frame hooked to a car battery. We are talking about waterboarding. While it may be an awful thing to go through, we also aren't talking about American Citizens, or even innocent foriegners. We are talking about enemy combatants that are trying to wipe US of the map along with Israel. And if a terrorist turns out to be an American Citizen, that constitutes treason and he/she's going to die anyway.
Yes, there will be abuses of this power, but as was said before, you drop the hammer on those people. They are breaking the law by doing so. If they declare a drug runner an "enemy combatant", you lock the person(s) up that declared him one and tortured him/her since running drugs is not terrorism.
We have already defined terrorists as Radical Religious Extremeists out to kill as many people as possible. To just start declaring criminals as terrorists crosses the line and those whom do so should be punished, even if that means it extends to the President himself. Period. There can be no wiggle room or they will continue to abuse their powers.
We have given up enough rights last century, how about this century we start taking them back?
