Government Inconsistencies, Chapter I - Liberals are stupid.

[sws4420]

Follow this logic with me.

Stephen Breyer, an associate jusitce of the Supreme Court, urged US lawyers and judges to consider international law during court activities.

Conservatives say that's lousy because it's not a world court. Depending on foreign rulings will distort the U.S. Court System. But they remain relatively silent on the issue.

London's subways get bombed.

Tony Blair decides he wants to nip this shit in the bud, so he's deporting 10 suspected terrorists from the country, no questions asked.

Now, if we were to follow suit with this Associate Justice, how many groups would be up in arms? I'm positive the ACLU would be all over it with a vengence.

How bad of an idea would this be? I know for a fact we have watch lists. In light of the recent release of information that we knew about Mohammed Atta before he actually bombed anything, why shouldn't we deport them all? This is our fucking party. We can kick anyone out of here that we want to. We were built on immigrants, fine. But the Irish and the Italians weren't coming to America with plots in their heads about how to kill other people. They came here to make a living for themselves. To make a life. Now look at what we have.

It's fucking depressing.

[Bob]

We keep voting them into office to make these decisions for us but somehow it all gets forgotten by the time elections come.

[sws4420]

Not we. They. I don't vote for anyone whose track record I don't know about.

[Bob]

I meant 'We' as a society. I knew you were gonna nitpick that word.

[sws4420]

And what exactly do you mean by nitpick. :smile:

I amuse me.

But seriously. Can't we put some rat poison in these assholes' tap water or something?

[Bob]

Oh I wish.

Here's a story I read the other day and it basically falls under the same thing but its not terrorist related, although they are trying to.

Vancouver, British Columbia: Canadian law enforcement officers, acting on a warrant issued by federal officials in Washington state, arrested longtime cannabis activist Marc Emery and two others late last week for violating US marijuana laws. American officials are seeking to extradite Emery to the United States, where he could face ten years to life in prison on charges that he distributed cannabis seeds to various individuals within the US.

For nearly ten years, Emery had openly operated an online cannabis seed bank in the Hastings neighborhood of Vancouver, where he maintained a high profile in the area's business and political community as publisher of the magazine Cannabis Culture (http://www.cannabisculture.com/) and founder of the BC Marijuana Party, among other activities. Vancouver police disregarded Emery's seed sales; however, a federal grand jury in Seattle indicted him in May on charges of "conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana seeds, and conspiracy to engage in money laundering." US law enforcement officials claim to have linked Emery's seeds to marijuana seizures in numerous states, including Florida, Indiana, and New Jersey.

Canadian law enforcement officers executed the arrest warrant against Emery and two colleagues, Gregory Williams and Michelle Rainey, on Friday in accordance with a US/Canadian treaty allowing for "mutual assistance on criminal matters." All three individuals have been granted bail and are expected to be free on bond imminently.

Extradition hearings for Emery, Williams, and Rainey could take up to one year or longer. None of the three defendants have been charged with violating Canadian drug laws.

NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre questioned why Canadian authorities would be willing to extradite Emery for activities that had been consistently ignored by local law enforcement and are punishable by little, if any penalty in his native country.

"Why are Canadian authorities, who had chosen not to prosecute Emery for his Internet seed business, now cooperating with US efforts to extradite and try him under America's far more stringent federal laws?" St. Pierre asked. "It's as if Canada has relinquished its sovereignty in regards to drug law enforcement to become a lapdog of the US Drug Enforcement Administration."

So put the shoe on the other foot, if another country asked for one of our citizens over something like this there would be people in an uproar. We basically want to charge him with a US crime committed in Canada that is perfectly legal to perform there. Our government is hungry for money. Plain and simple.