Antonin Scalia says, "...it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I don't know, stick something under the fingernail, smack him in the face."

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kennedy is part of the admin--helped usher in the admin

also sorry to chain-post but this is just silly

Hurting 2, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link

they're not putting int'l in ironic quotes. they're mostly ignoring it. those are two separate concepts.

there are probably a few people in the admin who give a shit about int'l law. that's all i'm saying.

kennedy is a firm believer in international law. it's pretty much him who we can thank for getting us into this mess in the first place. that's all i was saying and i realize it's an overreach.

Mr. Que, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link

that's all i was saying and i realize it's an overreach.

LOL this should be on the ILX Crest of Arms^^

Mr. Que, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link

WHO cares if the Guantamano Six were tortured?

Not me, that’s for sure, but you would have thought that the world had ended the way some of the Press reported the fact that, at long last, those accused of being the masterminds behind 9/11 were going to be tried.

They talked about kangaroo courts and acted as if these six were only on trial for shoplifting, not the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 innocents.

When will the ruling liberal elite realise we are at war with an enemy that isn’t fighting by the Queensberry rules and certainly doesn’t respect the Geneva Convention.

I wish the Yanks hadn’t used waterboarding to get the confessions but, I’m sorry, these are extraordinary times and they demand extraordinary methods.

If the liberals want to talk about the horrors of torture they should listen to the answerphone messages of the passengers on the planes as they careered into the World Trade Center, or remember the pictures of people who chose to jump rather than be burned alive. That was torture. That was pain. That was injustice.

This isn’t a game, this is war.

These madmen don’t give a warning when they are going to fly planes into buildings. The nutters of 7/7 didn’t phone the police before they pulled the strings on their rucksacks and now is not the time for social niceties and manners. Now is the time to fight fire with fire.

-- Jon Gaunt in the Sun

Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Nino's interview with Lesley Stahl

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 April 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Not sure if I can bring myself to watch him interviewed by someone likely supportive already of Scalia's views.

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link

To quote Frank Black, it's educational.

The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link

The interviewer is not that bad. He asks some decent questions, although certainly doesn't grill Scalia as much as I'd like.

I found the part II very revealing, actually. Scalia likes his Constitutional Law philosophy because it provides certainty and protects him from coping with scary change.

Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link


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