[Uriel1975]

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. -- Deuteronomy 32: 41 - 42

[Uriel1975]

ping

[JRandomFreeper]

I want to buy a piece of this action. I can raise $5k cash and gold before the markets open Monday. I assume this will be a cash deal. Can I buy options?

Invest in America. LOL. Thomas J. rests easy in his grave tonight.

/john

[Uriel1975]

BTTT

[Uriel1975]

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[Uriel1975]

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[Uriel1975]

BTTT

[DAnconia55]

Beautiful. I agree almost entirely.

How about we either greatly extend that list of nations (Australia, Germany, France...etc)

... Or remove that requirement. I'd be willing to pay an Afghan 100,000,000 out of the treasury for Ossama's head.
What about you?

[Kermit]

Yahooooo! I've been pointing this out to my congressman for years. He was so proud of a reward program and suggested that was pitiful, that he should read the Constitution and use the Letters of Marque and Reprisal power given to Congress. They do so much that is unconstitutional, why don't they do some that is constitutional. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper and more interesting. Small groups are going to come up with a lot more interesting solutions than the bureaucratic Pentagon, which can be seen coming from a thousand miles away. This is also the way to split the supporters off from the leadership. Some guy says to himself, gee, maybe I can pick up a couple of million dollars pretty quick and get out of Dodge. This would be very effective and would create fewer objections from allies, semi-allies and enemies.

[Travis McGee]

Just print this in Arabic and Afgan and drop leaflets. For a million U.S. lots of these guys would kill their moms.

[Anonymous2]

i'm in. i mean it too.

[Jubal Harshaw]

This sounds like a great idea. However, how about including some incentive to NOT harm innocent civilians? Say that the letter does not protect you against criminal charges for reckless and malicious killing, and that even neccesary killing of innocents looses you $1M for each innocent killed? It would be up to the attorney general of the US to prove reckless and malicious killing, and it would be up to the families of claimed “innocents” to make the case for innocents. The families would get the $1M if they could show that their departed was innocent.

To be cold-blooded about this, that means that if, using your pay scale, you manage to kill Bin Laden, you could kill 99 innocent people who were legitimately in the way, and still make $1M before expenses. This seems like a reasonable, but not extreme, incentive to get a clean kill. If you just go around killing people in the hopes that one of them is Bin Laden (say with area weapons), but no attempt to avoid killing innocents, then that would be reckless and malicious, and you could be charged in the US.

[Christopher]

Capitalism rules!!!

Count me in. Not as an investor, but as a contractor. Put a team together, and I'll be more than happy to prove my worth.

[jothamdorn]

This is a very interesting idea.

It is a modern libertarian free enterprise answer to the islamic fatwa. I think it may be a little too radical for some of our allies but I hope someone introduces this in congress.

[Architect]

Excellent. I like it.

One thing should be added: the operative should have the right to get additional scalps on his own initiative - on the condition that he can prove it in a court of law. Of course, failure to provide such proof could result in murder charges from the US or a foreign government.

I simply don't trust the government to be capable of identifying terrorists, never mind rooting them out.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

You Men work out these details that are giving me a headache ( sorry they are... a wee bit over my head right now.) Let me know what is going on.... I am in if we are serious.

[oneway]

What a great idea:

Blood, Money, Revenge, and Patritisom all rolled up into one nice tidy package.

I volunteer to be bloodletter...

[MadameAxe]

Sounds like an eminently sensible proposal.

I could call him Monday and ask him to pass it along to Ron Paul, or get me a phone conversation with Rep. Paul and his fax number.

You should do it.

[gjenkins]

Sounds good, but I am a little concerned about the dismissal of the negative incentives for the killing of innocents.

[Uriel1975]

Ping.

[Storm Orphan]

I like. I only wish I could have amassed enough to offer my own bounty.
(Perhaps this is another way for tragedy to become inspiration.)