Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Must-Tards VII
Thanks to Malkin, we have a bizarrely-worded press release from Amnesty International about the two soldiers kidnapped over the weekend and then found dead earlier this week:
Amnesty International condemns the torture or summary killing of anyone who has been taken prisoner and reiterates that such acts are absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law. This prohibition applies at all times, even during armed conflict. There is no honor or heroism in torturing or killing individuals. Those who order or commit such atrocities must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law without recourse to the death penalty. [emphasis mine]
Boy, that’s pretty tough talk there. Full extent of the law without recourse to the death penalty. How’s that going to go?
Hey United States? Amnesty International here. We got some contacts who claim to have caught the scum that killed your two soldiers. You want ’em? Okay, we’re all willing to agree, but first…no death penalty, okay? Okay? You heard me. So, what’s it gonna be? C’mon…no? You might kill ’em? *sigh* All right then, if that’s the way you want it, we’ll just have to cut ’em loose…you sure now? Okay. Damn shame, we really wanted these guys prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Anti-death penalty folks say that pro-death penalty folks like me, contradict ourselves. They say we want to kill people, to show that killing people is wrong. I think they’re the ones contradicting themselves, and Amnesty International does a great job of demonstrating how.
DON’T KILL. And just to make sure the point sinks in, if you DO kill, we’re going to prosecute you “to the full extent of the law.” Kinda. Not really. We mean, to the full extent, short of actually killing you. You might say, “you stop killing people, because if you do not, we will become very angry with you, and we will write a letter to you, telling you how angry we are.”
How incredibly sensible. How incredibly EUROPEAN.
And I don’t mean that in a good way. It seems we have a lot of people who are in positions of high authority and visibility, who are convinced when you draw a line and someone steps over it, you can simply draw another line and hopefully THAT one they’ll leave alone.
When you think about it, it’s pretty scary. We’re fighting people who like to fly planes into our buildings…with their pathologically screwed-up butts sitting right in those planes. They give their lives for the cause. Well, the ones who do the actual work, are willing to.
So recap. Some greasy goat-molester is ready to kill himself to kill us. And Amnesty International goes on record saying “if you kill anybody, we’re on record as demanding you be punished to the full extent of the law short of being subjected to the death penalty.” And Muhammad Al-Weirdbeard says to himself, ooh, better call the whole plan off then. I mean, I’d be dead, but they could still go after my boss, Mahmoud Al-Tons-o-fun, and I sure wouldn’t want that to happen.
These Amnesty people aren’t making any decisions that actually matter, are they?
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- Ellens Diary | 06/21/2006 @ 15:37Seems really incredibly EUROPEAN. But it comes to the point where I increasingly have diffences to distinguish European and American positions. What are you goin to do if you catch Hamsa el-Muhajir? Send him to court like Saddam Hussein, Hassam Ali Mashid and all the others?
There was no Nuremberg trial at Bagdad, and for me, this was the psycological proove, that the Irak war militarily won and politically lost.
- Ellens Diary | 06/21/2006 @ 15:41You posted a duplicate comment so I removed one of them. I assume you just hit the button twice. I have no way to e-mail you about it, so I hope this is okay.
- mkfreeberg | 06/24/2006 @ 08:10