is this post supposed to be subversively conservative? first of all, you used the phrase "john mccain is a maverick" 3 times in this post. great joke (by "great", i guess i mean "completely overused"), but no need to shove it down my throat.
second, i don't think that rejecting failed policies implies that anyone "forgot" about september 11. isn't gawker based in ny? are you completely daft?
i guess that your post is supposedly ironic on some level, but i just find it rather lame... maybe i should just stick to reading the 'gossip girl' recaps.
@Hydroceph: It's snark, but it still has a conservative opinion that I don't agree with, either. The Bush policies were corrupt. Obama is revoking them. I just hope his counter-terrorism people stay on the ball during these changes; you have to work a little harder when you decide to play by the rules again.
In 1997 I worked for this super huge scam of a computer consulting group in Dallas where they brought a consultant in to tell us about the extraordinary money we can all make by fooling clients into thinking this y2k problem will fuck up elevators, planes, inventory databases, etc, and this was the first I ever heard of the impending "problem".
They started charging clients $250/hour to debug existing shit to avoid the scary "negative date summation"!
Obama's administration hasn't detailed a plan for what is to be done with the legitimately scummy people in Guantanamo, but that's the POINT! Habeus corpus and all the other due process of law bits expose America to risk all the time, but that's the cost of doing business as a free society. You accept the risk of recidivism and bad men escaping sympathetic juries in exchange for the right to avoid being hurled into some foreign gulag without charges or trial.
So it is with Caesar. Close Gitmo. I'd rather have another fallen skyscraper than play host to a hypocritical, transparent argument against free society and our legal system.
@braak: Agreed. It's also funny to me how some people seem to think we have a stark choice between locking people up in offshore prisons and torturing them while they wait for a trial that will never come, and releasing them into the wild with a pat on the back and a "Sorry 'bout the waterboarding, now stop terrorizing us... please?"
We have some pretty fucking secure prisons right here in the old U.S. of A. We also have laws, and habeus corpus... ya know, that stuff we claim to beleive that everyone is entitled to. Gitmo is not only a huge disgrace, it's not even necessary.
Myopic and flawed. America believes its judicial system is an inalienable right of man. By extension, we believe that all men and women should share in our views and freedoms regardless of origin.
Demarcating rights by nationality is a dangerously short leap from demarcating them by race, creed, sexual orientation...
@Lincolnsbeard33: Uh, we don't claim that everyone is entitled to it because we don't govern foreign territories. We signed the Geneva conventions, though, which is a pretty good sign we believe those rights are inaliable and should extend to everyone.
Besides, what are you even arguing? That we should torture suspected criminals indefinitely, without trial, ever, and it's cool because they're foreign?
I'd actually like to go back to the end of 2001, that glorious time when it was okay to be afraid of everything: dogs, model airplanes, FedEx boxes; not because they could bite you or get caught in your hair or bear a shirt from J. Crew that doesn't fit, but because the terrorists could pack them with explosives. Explosives laden with anthrax and the inchoate wish that the America you know and love be reduced to a quivering mound of reactionary idiocy.
Not long after 9/11, i rented a cabin in Yosemite with a bunch of friends. In the middle of the night, i hear a crash! that sounds like it's coming from the kitchen. As my mind helpfully supplies the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs to my room, i call 911. The deputies responded and quickly ascertained the emergency: a glass casserole dish left drying by the sink had fallen over.
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Cera, stop being an L7weenie.
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second, i don't think that rejecting failed policies implies that anyone "forgot" about september 11. isn't gawker based in ny? are you completely daft?
i guess that your post is supposedly ironic on some level, but i just find it rather lame... maybe i should just stick to reading the 'gossip girl' recaps.
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They started charging clients $250/hour to debug existing shit to avoid the scary "negative date summation"!
Good times.
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Obama's administration hasn't detailed a plan for what is to be done with the legitimately scummy people in Guantanamo, but that's the POINT! Habeus corpus and all the other due process of law bits expose America to risk all the time, but that's the cost of doing business as a free society. You accept the risk of recidivism and bad men escaping sympathetic juries in exchange for the right to avoid being hurled into some foreign gulag without charges or trial.
So it is with Caesar. Close Gitmo. I'd rather have another fallen skyscraper than play host to a hypocritical, transparent argument against free society and our legal system.
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We have some pretty fucking secure prisons right here in the old U.S. of A. We also have laws, and habeus corpus... ya know, that stuff we claim to beleive that everyone is entitled to. Gitmo is not only a huge disgrace, it's not even necessary.
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Myopic and flawed. America believes its judicial system is an inalienable right of man. By extension, we believe that all men and women should share in our views and freedoms regardless of origin.
Demarcating rights by nationality is a dangerously short leap from demarcating them by race, creed, sexual orientation...
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Besides, what are you even arguing? That we should torture suspected criminals indefinitely, without trial, ever, and it's cool because they're foreign?
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Ring any bells?
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Not long after 9/11, i rented a cabin in Yosemite with a bunch of friends. In the middle of the night, i hear a crash! that sounds like it's coming from the kitchen. As my mind helpfully supplies the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs to my room, i call 911. The deputies responded and quickly ascertained the emergency: a glass casserole dish left drying by the sink had fallen over.
I blame the squirrels.
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Or maybe that's not irony. Maybe it's even the opposite of irony.