Max: Obama Goes Full On Bush
I expected I would eventually be disappointed by the Obama administration. I just didn't expect it would be this badly.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 5/22/2009 03:05:00 PM
Friday, May 22, 2009
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I have just lost a great deal of respect for Rachel Maddow.
That entire segment was a string of sound bites, pulled out of context, then reassembled as she put words in the President's mouth - words he did not say. She inserted her opinion as fact. This is so Limbaugh.
It's not bad enough that liberals are wont to build circular firing squads but here she is screaming "Fire!"
I admit, what little I got of his speech through the editing makes me uncomfortable. But, Obama said one thing, then she added fiction to it to make it sound a hundred times worse.
What do you do when you have a terrorist who says "Let me go and I will kill Americans"? Let him go? Really? Why not just hand him a gun and turn him lose on a sports field in the middle of a playoff game? Say whatever you like, these people hate us. We're at war with them.
She's comparing this to a) a work of science fiction and b) trying to keep a man from killing his wife in a fit of rage. This isn't mindless rage. These people are plotting to kill innocent Americans. If they can do it, they'll kill as many as they can.
Yes, the Bush regime made plenty of mistakes. There are people at Gitmo that shouldn't be there. Last I heard, Obama's people are trying to get those people out of there. But, when a hardened, trained terrorist says I will kill any American I can get my hands on - it's not a crime. But do you let him go?
I haven't been happy with how our government has handled pretty much everything since 9/11. The terrorists won the moment we started exchanging freedom for safety. (Can you say TSA? Knew you could!) But, terrorism changes the rules. If a foreign power threatened to start bombing cities, you have options. You can start with diplomacy and end with treaties or war - we can defend ourselves in a war.
Fighting terrorists is not a conventional war. Terrorists are mass murders. Did they hit just military targets on 9/11? No, they hit mostly civilian targets. The one military target they hit had no way to defend itself. Have most terrorists acts been against civilians? Yes.
So, they haven't committed a crime. We just let them go. Then, after they blow up a mall, we can arrest the charred remains of the suicide bomber and give it a proper trial.
I saw Maddow's mouth moving - but I didn't hear a better solution.
Planning a crime with intent to carry out said plans is a crime
Saying that you intend to commit a crime is reason enough to arrest, try you and -- if found guilty -- lock you up. Even if it turns out you're a crank talking out of your ass you might find yourself in a padded room.
Okay, if that's actually the case then:
a) I'm wrong about the law (no shock there)
b) I'm really confused. Try them and lock them up. No?
Yes, exactly. Try them and, if found guilty, lock them up. Don't just lock them up indefinitely without trial.
(giggle- "circular firing squads")
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