Posted on 06/07/2017 2:58:36 PM PDT by davikkm
Not just in the UK, but throughout Europe and America, more and more people are calling for those on terrorist watch lists to be interred, and even some major politicians are floating the idea now, too. But historically, no one has ever been proud of taking this action. It is a step too far and risks the Liberties of everyone, not just potential Jihadis.
When sweeping new powers are awarded to a government, it is never long before the powers are used against ordinairy citizens; and in a world that is increasingly persecuting those with Conservative views (and especially those that prize the Second Amendment highly), how long would it take for politicians to begin using these laws as a way of hitting out at those who disagree politically?
Once we allow government new powers, you can be sure of two things:
They will never take these powers off the law books. They will find ways to exercise these powers for political ends.
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Yes, as in the US, Roman institutions were eventually corrupted when Rome was finally safe from other nations.
George Washington and everyone else knew that by stepping down from command of his Continental Army and returning to his farm, he was the 18th century model of Cincinnatus.
FDR did little more than any good dictator would have done, but being the President, whatever he did set precedent, which was condoned by congress by the acquiescence.
Summary execution?
You don’t need to convince me.
I’m also a fan of public humiliation therapy, especially for low level offenders.
I believe a set of stocks mounted to a flatbed and driven through the ‘hood would work wonders.
“...But There are Other Ways,” says someone who hopes to be killed last.
16 years in and we still haven’t even contemplated fighting the ideology.
F’n cowards can never take action unless they perceive everything to be 100% perfect, which is to say never. Instead, they retreat into Utopian fantasies of the past and wishful thinking. They deny the evil staring them in the face. Imagine those poor souls on the London Bridge, where the last thing they see is a wicked, soulless jihadists drawing a blade to them.
There is only one way acceptable to me, with no room for negotiation...
An oath to acquire provisional citizenship with the final oath upon attaining voting age.
Irrevocable commitment and allegiance to accept secular representative democratic governance as preeminent and irrevocable or loss of citizenship and voting rights whether natural born or not.
A lifetime oath, take it or leave it.
Or self deportation, their choice.
Or examine closely the danger of islam as a religion and as substitute for secular law, which had already proven its propensity for permanent two-legged barbaric behavior for over a thousand years.
It wouldn’t even be especially challenging to argue that Sharia Law is an establishment of religion and therefore unconstitutional.
Our Framers lived in a time that valued common sense and truth above feelings so it probably never occurred to them..
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