The one that scares me the most is the one in which we convince ourselves that we are entitled to do anything to anyone if we even think they might be planning to hurt us.
I fear for my children either way. I fear they could be injured or killed in some random attack. I fear for my little clients for the same reason.
But to abandon our law, in a nation of laws, is to abandon who we are, to win the battle and lose not only the war, but our national soul.
Ernest Hemingway said, in A Farewell to Arms, "The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one." I hope to be brave enough to live my life, if scared, without feeling the need to deprive others of theirs because of my fear. I hope to have the courage it takes to remember to be an American in truth, and not just in name.
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I'll tell you the truth: all the alternatives scare me.
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- Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Give them all quick trials. Shoot the guilty and release the rest. (n/t)
- What to do...
- re: Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Try them as war criminals if that might stick, otherwise treat them as POWs in a US base - or send them home. (n/t)
- I was not being glib...what *are* the alternatives? (n/t)
- And I wasn't being flippant.
- I think you're simply asking the wrong people
- They've got nothing.
- Take TWO OLD 737's With American Airlines LOGOS still attached
- Can the US imprison all who hate the US? Do we turn domestic prisoners loose?
- Try them and hang them. (n/t)
- Easy, put a chip in and let them go. (n/t)
- Give them citizenship. Then let them join the military, and base them naer San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., and NYC. (n/t)
- Make 'em swim home. (n/t)