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What is the appropriate response to the illegal and inhumane acts that precipitated the executive branch’s own misdeeds?
by svinsider 8y ago
What is the appropriate response to the illegal and inhumane acts that precipitated the executive branch’s own misdeeds?
- timbit42 8y agoTo act legally. Two wrongs don't make a right.
- sneak 8y agoThere is no crime for which torture is an acceptable punishment.
- fisherjeff 8y agoSo then where is the line? The executive branch is charged with prosecuting all criminal behavior. What’s the minimum act you would consider illegal and/or inhumane enough to justify an illegal response?
- ObscureScience 8y agoAs far as I know the "inmates" haven't even had a trial, so why would the executive branch have a right to enact punishment?
- vlovich123 8y agoWhere to start? How about reality: 1. Victims of crimes do not get to enact in-kind retribution against the perpetrators. Welcome to Western criminal justice since before the US split off from England. 2. Not everyone in Guantanamo had anything to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda (some even are innocent because the US Military & Intelligence services sometimes do make mistakes). Does having a crime committed against the US in the past now entitle them to do whatever to whomever for all time? If so, does this rule get to be applied outside the US or is the US special? 3. Legally reprisal is only allowed for the purpose of getting the adversary to obey the laws of armed conflict. It cannot be taken for revenge, spite or punishment. Or basic morality we teach children? 2 wrongs don't make a right. Or more eloquently put by MLK: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."