Fox News: This is America… learn the rules.

November 10, 2005 @ 8:42 pm · Posted by Boxen · Filed under Idiotic, Politics

Fair and Balanced

The headline speaks for itself.

4 Comments

  1. danger Said,

    November 11, 2005 @ 9:37 am

    I have to admit this is a tough one for me.

    There’s a classic scenario where you have caught your child’s kidnapper. Only he knows where the child is and the child will die if he doesn’t tell you in a few hours. Is torture ok then?

    As a parent, I say hell yes.

    Is this really that much different?

  2. Boxen Said,

    November 11, 2005 @ 11:02 am

    In the same situation I’d probably do the same thing. I’d be driven by emotion. Where it’s different is when it’s applied to policy. I can’t just apply what I’d do to a government body and vice versa. It’s why vigilante justice is illegal.

    That an enemy would do it doesn’t mean we should do it to them. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t fight back, but if we employ the methods of theirs that we abhor, how are we different?

    Also, it would be naive to expect a body that has a power not to abuse it.

  3. danger Said,

    November 11, 2005 @ 12:25 pm

    you make all the appropriate and perfectly reasonable points. you get a gold star from the head of the aclu.

    but I submit to you that once a WMD is detonated in this country policy decisions will become very emotional. vigilante justice is illegal but I never saw many people trying to stop curtis sliwa.

  4. Boxen Said,

    November 11, 2005 @ 4:08 pm

    That’s because the Guardian Angels take advantage of citizens arrest laws so what they’re doing isn’t necessarily illegal. The other reason that people don’t mind is that the GAs don’t get the special legal protection that the police do, so they’re far more vulnerable in terms of liability for arresting the wrong person or any other rights violations.

    And I agree, that emotional policy decisions will be made when what you mentioned happens. And then the exodus.

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