Re: Earthquake hits Mexico this morning

On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:17:49 -0500, John Fields
<jfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:15:38 -0700 (PDT), bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Since execution isn't a sentence that the international court of
justice is empowered to impose, this is another one of your pig
ignorant lies. I haven't seem much evidence of hatred for even the
most despicable members of the American heirachy - there is a general
feeling that they ought to be tried and convicted for their numerous
crimes against humanity,

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"Tried and convicted"?

So, their guilt is a foregone conclusion?

With even a miserable, vindictive, pissant like you harboring those
feelings, why should we subject ourselves to the will of your ilk?
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primarily to discourage others from being
equally stupid and ignorant - but nothing that could be described as
vindictive hatred outside of the genuinely demented terrorist
organisations like Al Qaeda, who aren't any more enthusiastic about
the international court of justice than you and Dubbya.

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I'd have nothing against an international tribunal if justice were to
be meted out fairly, but since even a loser like you has a
presumed-guilty-until-proven-innocent and a "Let's give 'em a fair
trial and hang 'em in the morning" attitude, I can't see what purpose
would be served other than to allow your ilk to ride roughshod over
us.

It ain't gonna happen, Bozo.
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but even
that wouldn't justify a perfectly selective terrorist attack that only
took them out - I don't believe in the death penaly when it is imposed
by a properly constituted judicial system, and I'm even less
enthusiastic about free-lance murder.

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Yes, your preferred method is to talk someone to death.
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Like I said, I'm not in favour of any form of free-lance murder - and
in any event nobody ever actually seems to have been talked to death.
Legislation can be talked to death - you've even got a word -
"filibuster" - for the process, but it isn't seen as a real threat to
human life - as evidneced by the fact that no state of the union has
ever proposed to adopt it as a way of executing criminals.

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What do you think a court trial leading to the execution of a prisoner
is if it isn't "talking someone to death"?

Anyway, Hitler and some other charismatic leaders seem to have
mastered the art without recourse to law.
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As a Texan you presumably approved of Dubbya's habit of approving the
execution of the intellectually challenged in the pursuit of political
popularity with the morally challeged right wing voter - people like
you, in other words.

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People _do_ like me, thank you very much.

There's no accounting for taste.

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True, and in your case, lack of.
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As for your never-ending anti-Bush and anti-Texan rant, why is what we
do any business of yours?  You're an impotent old misanthrope whose
hate-filled rhetoric has the power to do little but annoy.

Since the idiot has persuaded the US legislature to give him the power
to invade the Netherlands to release any American citizen arrested for
trial by the international court in the Hague, his antics are of
interest anybody living in the Netherlands. Granting the incompetence
of the US intelligence services, we can expect an invasion anytime a
Dutch tourist is picked up for shop-lifting, since we can't rely on
your "diplomats" - mostly generous contributors to the Republican
election funds - to recognise the difference between the Dutch legal
system and the international court of justice.

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Unlike you, a blowhard who rejoices in pompous impotency, if he's
managed to persuade the legislature to do anything his way then he can
hardly be an idiot.

Case in point, why would we invade the Netherlands if a Dutch tourist
was picked up for anything?
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BTW, don't forget that if it wasn't for Texas you wouldn't be able to
afford your current lifestyle, you ingrate.

My wife was ill-advised to do her Ph.D. in Austin, Texas - she would
have got better training (and less aggravation) if she gone directly
to MIT as a graduate student, rather than waiting until after she'd
got her Ph.D. to spend time there as a post-doc. She'd probably have
got to the top sooner if she'd skipped Texas - the people she met at
MIT have made a lot of difference to her career, while the people she
met via Texas have proved to be irrelevant (though some of them were
pleasant enough, and remained good friends).

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Hindsight's 20-20...

JF
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