Re:What a bunch of malarky (Score 1)

I don't know where you get your definitions or if you just make them up, but all of the definitions I looked up include the word "violence". To my mind your not a terrorist unless you use violence to achieve your goals. Intimidation is not enough. The proper quote was "Guantanamo is one of the worst violations of human rights in recent history." What do you consider recent? Personally, recent would be anything that has happened in the current or even the last generation. Therefore the Holocaust would not be considered "recent". It's been almost seventy years. Thats just loo long to consider it recent. You said "I'd much rather have my good guys in government going and killing all of the bad guys, without me having to even think about it." Who defines who the guys are? If it was me, I'd be OK with that, but if it was you, I'd have a problem with that. I don't think that the current administration has the credentials to be qualified as the "good guys". At best they are a bunch of extremists that think because they have power they have a right to use it to subvert the will of the people. Who defines the bad guys? What defines bad. I don't think that anyone would have a problem hunting down and killing Osama Bin Laden, but I don't think that's the right way to lead. As an American child in the 70's, I was told that the "rule of law" was what made this country great. That people couldn't simply decide to jail others without due process. Not that due process is perfect or even close, but refusing to give the people in Gitmo the simple human rights we take for grated dimminishes us all. I think that makes George W Bush a criminal for human rights violations. If we call something a "Human Right" doesn't that mean it should apply to all humans.