Posted on 03/16/2010 5:09:14 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Most administrations woiuld tell the ACLU to pound sand and fight this all the way. However, the Obama admin is more likely to roll over and give it up.
This is scary.
ALL members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban are aware that they are engaged in violent acts against the United States and are subject to detention and arrest if apprehended. Applicable common law and various statutes endorse the doctrine that force may be used against such persons without warning if apprehension is impossible or if such warning would an unreasonable danger of evasion or violent resistance.
Just to make sure, I hereby place all members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban currently resident in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia under citizen’s arrest for murder and sabotage, and for aiding and abetting murder and sabotage, acts I have actually witnessed or of which I have direct knowledge as prescribed by the common law and the statutes of the State of Texas, of which I am a legal resident. Come out with your hands up or we’ll shoot.
Now, bugger off, ACLU.
This is obviously based on the common belief among lefties that we need a legally correct law enforcement approach rather than military force for the struggle against terrorism.
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden is still at large, but could the ACLU’s non-military, due-process approach really work? Perhaps they would like to show up the Pentagon by trying it themselves:
ACLU Babe (peering into cave): “Come out, Mr. Bin Laden, I have a suitcase full of arrest warrants for you.”
Osama: “Be gone, impudent strumpet of the Great Satan!”
ACLU Babe : “Well! There’s no reason to talk like a Republican. It’s to your advantage to stand trial, you know. You could explain how your impoverished childhood and Bush’s Imperialist Foreign Policy caused the revolt on September 11th. Our top historian, Oliver Stone, says so.“
Osama: (Mumbling) “Impoverished? Revolt? Buwaaahaahaa!” (shouting again) “Silence, brazen female without veil. You should be stoned.”
ACLU Babe: “Stoned? Thanks, but this is no time for an office party, and your chauvinism is Republica—, er, repugnant. Please, we can help! Media interns, er, peace activists, have ordered a million ‘Free Osama’ tee shirts. Saddam Hussein’s personal lawyer, Ramsey Clark, might help with your defense.”
Osama: ”Clark? Phooey! His clients keep getting bombed or hanged. Not want Saddam’s lawyer anyway! Saddam was blasphemer and communist!”
ACLU Babe: “Commu-—? Accchhh! That’s McCarthyism! First sexism, and now this! The horror! You belong in prison after all! Come out now, you red-baiting sexist beast!”
Osama: “Enough of your insolence, hippie harridan!”
(We leave the scene as 200 armed terrorists swarm out of the cave.)
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