Maybe I am just grumpy but....

[Pagan]

Originally Posted by saucygirl

I don't think you're being racist with that remark I think you might be misinformed. It's not like we're taking those prisoners and patting them on the back and wishing them luck while we set them free. We're placing them in high security prisons where no one has ever escaped. What about those prisoners that were set free in the time the bush administration was still in power. How come no one is saying anything about that?

Federal pens, even the maximum security ones, are pretty darned nice. Air conditioned, 3 meals a day, tv, "rehabilitation" programs - all on the taxpayer's dime. Gitmo, while not perfect has several advantages. The biggest one is that these prisoners are safe from harm by other prisoners. Can you guarantee that in the Federal Prison system? Sure, by isolation and that can be cruel treatment. And yeah, I did forget to insert my dripping sarcasm tags, too.

I don't agree with a lot of the paroles and releases. How do you explain to a minor that has been raped that the person who committed the crime only has to do a couple of years in jail and is free to live wherever they want? We don't have the manpower necessary to monitor the parolees on the streets now.

In my day job, I work getting deadbeat parents served. A good number of them are convicted violent offenders that have not kept up their registration with law enforcement. One very chilling case had the guy fleeing from his home state to Florida. There was a felony arrest warrant out for the guy, and we had a solid lead on where he was. I got a hold of the local police department, got a copy of the warrant to them and begged them - "Please pick this violent child abuser up." The address we had was less than 500 feet from an elementary school AND he was there with his girlfriend and toddlers.

Instead of picking him up, they ran his driver's license and found an address in a neighboring county. When I ran it against Google, it turned out to be a private postal center. The original PD NEVER even went out to the address we gave them. That man is still on the loose, living in someone's neighborhood because a kind judge let him out of jail. He's not the only one -- he is one of the saddest because that girlfriend was just 18 and had his year old baby with her.

With our "Kinder than thou" attitude, it will not be long before we are convinced that we must welcome these war criminals to our neighborhoods, give them US tax dollars to buy homes and cars and bring their starving families over, give them more tax dollars to live on, and just smile when they stick out their hand for more.

Does anyone remember what happened to the US citizens that were caught early on in this war? What about Daniel Pearl?

[stuveltje]

you go a tottaly different way now then you mentioned in your first post, the chat...make up you mind, fight goverment deals wont work on the board, with that i can mention about 1000s kids rape deals in holland, which the persons involveld get 2 months prison, so dont start that, goverment things you cant fight......you where talking about the chatroom. dont get me wrong, i am not fighting agains you, yeah sure i agree with you on te kids things and all, but keep with your first post....what you posted now has nothing to do with your first post and there is nothing what you will post now to improve that

[Bill]

Now it's all clear.

"Enjoy the diversity!".

It's a neologism.

It means "American cops are dumb fucks, bumbling incompetents who can't tell a prisoner's asshole from a hole in the ground.".

Hard to argue with that.

[Useless]

I have no idea what the main point of this thread is because it seems like it's all over the place. (I'm not quite sure what diversity has to do with any of it.) But since Gitmo was mentioned at least twice, I feel the need to react to it. One should investigate how these alleged "enemy combatants" were gathered before making the brave assumption that they were all originally enemies and/or combatants. Our handling of the Gitmo detainees is a wonderful example of how two-faced we Americans are when it comes to our cherished freedoms and sense of justice. Freedom and justice for us -- fuck everyone else. Speedy trial, the right to know what we have been accused of, the evidence against us, defense counsel, etc, -- all that we consider integral to justice -- is tossed out the window for certain others and we couldn't care less. It's funny though: one American journalist was arrested and imprisoned in Iran after multiple warnings by Iran for her to leave, and Americans were pissed. It's a bitch always having to juggle these damned double standards.

[Bill]

Sorry Pagan, I'm yankin' your chain.

Your initial presentation is valid enough, and I don't think many would disagree with it's main points.

The political stuff seemed strange, in the context of the rest of the presentation.

It felt like a bait-and-switch, a 'false premise' argument. As if that were the real main point of your presentation, for which the rest was a kind of cover.

In modern political rhetoric, it's what's called a 'poison pill' argument.

It was probably more of a stream-of-conciousness thing, thoughts strung together as they poured out of the writing parts of the mind.

It's not like we don't all know there's still a big culture-war going on.

[saucygirl]

Originally Posted by Pagan

Federal pens, even the maximum security ones, are pretty darned nice. Air conditioned, 3 meals a day, tv, "rehabilitation" programs - all on the taxpayer's dime. Gitmo, while not perfect has several advantages. The biggest one is that these prisoners are safe from harm by other prisoners. Can you guarantee that in the Federal Prison system? Sure, by isolation and that can be cruel treatment. And yeah, I did forget to insert my dripping sarcasm tags, too.

Taxpayers already pay for GITMO.