Posted on 10/12/2001 7:24:39 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
Friday, Oct. 12, 2001 Rep. Paul Proposes Way to Get bin Laden Rep. Ron Paul thinks Congress can do more to fulfill its constitutional obligation to defend America - namely, help get terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Paul, R-Texas, has offered H.R. 3076 - September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001. If passed, the legislation would give President Bush "a surgical and precise weapon that can help capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the other persons responsible" for the Sept. 11 attacks. "The founders and authors of our Constitution provided an answer for the difficult tasks that we now face," Paul says. "When a precise declaration of war was impossible due to the vagueness of our enemy, the Congress was expected to take it upon themselves to direct the reprisal against an enemy not recognized as a government." Paul says that the weapon our country's founders crafted in the Constitution to defend our nation against terrorism on the high seas was for Congress to grant letters of marque and reprisal. This gives Congress the power to offer a bounty and appoint stealth warriors, private companies and individuals, in this case to seize bin Laden and his fellow terrorists as well as their property. The bill would allow the president to appoint such forces. The appointees could be coordinated with government attacks and have access to U.S. intelligence to augment their own well-established networks. "This would not preclude the president's other efforts to resolve the crisis, but supply him with an additional weapon," says the congressman. Paul urges citizens to speed the capture of bin Laden by telling their representatives to get this legislation moving now.
Sounds like a wonderful idea.
There's a big difference between what weapons and tactics are legal in the United States and what's legal overseas. As long as they keep the more "controversial elements" off shore, there's little that the libs can complain about.
I can imagine the prices on terrorists hides is enough incentive to get the pros into the hunt without further action. They're on it.
How about dropping these guys and see what happens?
Robert Shapiro
F. Lee Bailey
Alan Dershowitz
Barry Scheck
Johnnie Cochran
The possibilities are astounding here! What would the UN do?
It would be akin to a vigilante taking action against a criminal that a corrupt police department refused to pursue! Oh, this is getting fun....
To the average Afghani, that is equivalent to all the virgins in the world.
Let's face facts. If someone is going to track down Osama bin Laden to some remote gorge in central Afghanistan, it is not going to be some Rambo-wannabe from the Upper Michigan Militia.
The man who can track bin Laden down, betray his position and bring down a 5,000 pound bunker-busting bomb on him will be an illiterate Afghani tribesman.
Theme Song of the Beverly Afghanis.
" Let me tell ya a story 'bout a man named Fez,
Poor Afghani mountaineer barely keep his family fed.
Then one day he was shootin' at some food,
When up through the pass came his life dreams come true.
Osama! bin Laden, that is.
Well, the next thing you know ol' Fez's a millionaire.
The American B-2's blew bin Ladin straight to H*ll.
The kin folk said "Fez move away from here!"
So he packed up his bags and moved to Beverly...
Hills, that is.
Swimmin' pools. Movie stars."
Marque and Reprisal is an archaic concept which had its place in the 18th century.
Ron Paul first said that the WTC attacks are the result of our foreign policy, and now he wants to commission pirates.
Both statements are flatly irresponsible and I expected far better from him.
Afghanistan and Taliban receive the majority of their income from the heroin trade.
Countermeasure 1: give the Mob and the Colombian cartels the hint that the extermination of heroin dealers may just not receive a lot of police attention...
Countermeasure 2: make heroin dealing punishable by death, carried out ON THE SPOT by law enforcement
LET'S ROLL!
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