Update: Yes, I hurl insults, too, but I give reasons for the insults. What are they, you ask? Why don’t you (dare I say it?) actually read the bleeping post and find out.

Also read comment policy: “I respect and encourage substantive commentary, but comments that are nothing but insults of me or other commenters will be deleted. Repeated attempts to post such comments will get the commenter banned.”

And some folks are sad about that & lash out at the “right wing”.

Uh-huh.

Sorry, hope your Friday doesn’t end up COMPLETELY in the dumps as you ponder the fate of poor, poor, Padilla (if so, it’s still the fault of the “right”. Everything bad in your life is their fault, ya know).

But you don’t answer. You just hurl insults. I gave reasons why I think you are cowards, and I stand by them. Can you argue with my reasons? Of course not. All you can do is throw a temper tantrum. This is not “answering.”

Differing ideas have plenty of chance for rebuttal here. However, righties like you hardly ever leave actual ideas in their comments, just insults, which is why I have to close threads when you start showing up.

Padilla is broken, right? He’s admitted he joined Al Qaeda, but wouldn’t admit to the other things he’s accused of. He was upset with his lawyer for a harsh cross examination of an FBI agent; his lawyer was undermining the commander in chief’s authority.

If you read his application, what leet skills does he bring to the war? Carpentry. And they never so much as caught him talking in code the way the other defendants did.

He asked his mom to talk to President Bush on his behalf.

And this just bugs me. If he’s broken, and guilty, he’d be asking for mercy. If he’s broken and innocent, he’d be asking for intervention. “If only Bush knew the truth, he’d put a stop to this!”

There’s two models.

1) Padilla was planning to fight.

2) Padilla was actually hoping to do some good in the Muslim world.

I haven’t followed the trial really well, but they say that he wasn’t caught talking in any code words. The only evidence they had was the application. What if the whole dirty bomb crap was, well, crap? What if they got his name through torture (”have to give up someone, might as well give up that worthless loser”)? What if he was just some random joe who got religion and ended up working with a charity that was affiliated with Al Qaeda?

None of this is proof, but it seems the model of “schmuck who got caught up in bad company” *could* fit better than “actual, honest to goodness terrorist.”

If he’s as broken as he should be, I think he’d be confessing and begging for mercy. But it sounds like he’s thinking that this is a big mess that someone else can fix.

I disagree!

Close thread. Differing ideas have no chance for rebuttal here. Move along, move along.

They are so terrified by the specter of The Other, that they don’t realize how this specter was deliberately enhanced to scare them witless, in order to sell out our country. BOO!

And you have the nerve to call people cowards?

It is to laugh.