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Dispensing justice, one bullet at a time
One way that you can tell that Bill Buckley is really dead is that you would normally have to go visit the Ole Perfesser, instead of The National Review, to find something like this that mixes just the right amount of glib commentary with homicidal tendencies:
Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, shares this witty response to the Supreme Court’s decision today:
An old government friend emails with a practical response to the Supreme Court:
Let’s free all Gitmo detainees…on a vast, deserted, open and contested Afghan battlefield. C-130 gunship circling overhead for security. Give them all a two minute running head start.
Personally I think that McCarty is using the passive "old government friend" because he’s much too modest to admit that he thought this up all by his own bad self. It’s nice to know that, should someone ever decide to remake The Great Escape, McCarthy would be willing to play the part of Gruppenführer Artur Nebe… but without the feelings of guilt.
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“Neocon” is actually an ancient Urdu word meaning “dickless”. This is why stem cell research is so important. If we could grow new cucumbers for these guys maybe they’d stop taking their inadequacies out on everyone else.
what is wrong with these people? don’t they get it? the real terrorists have been eating our fucking lunch on a vast and faceless afghan plain and the vaster and even more facey afghan mountains.
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Interesting idea for dealing with the gitmo inmates, but it should be tested on neocons first.
What could possibly go wrong?
Bush made this mess, we have to live with it. One in twenty are convictable, the rest will end up running suburban restaurants or convenience stores.
Personally, I cut a hole in the fence at gitmo and let them escape.
Running out of water, food and oil. Absolutely no shortage of neocon asswipes.
Told you this would happen when Clinton let the Fairness Doctrine die.
Would that their lurid dreams of gunfire were enough to get the tough-pixel crowd to join up and serve.
They content themselves with masturbating to reruns of “Weaponology” and exhorting others to fight and die in their stead.
Or else his “old government friend” is Dick Cheney.
Andy McCarthy is a slime mold posing as a human being, but this is exactly the kind of “family values” embraced by modern conservatism.
And let’s not forget what one of the Three Stooges (you know, Moe McCain, Linday, and Curly Joe) said yesterday…http://www.tagg-theangrygayguy.com
“Tough-pixel crowd” = absolutely perfect description; time to spread this one far and wide!
Why not just throw them out of the plane over the ocean? Or just have them dig their own graves and pour gasoline on them? Horror Show regimes have tons of ideas about this, we should reach out to our friends in Uzbekistan for some pointers — boiling? Too labor intensive?
I’m surprised that massive-cocked tough guy McCarthy has such a limited imagination.
Horror Show regimes have tons of ideas about this, we should reach out to our friends in Uzbekistan for some pointers — boiling? Too labor intensive?
Not a bad idea, but I think Adam Yoshida’s “macrowaves” would be more spectacular.
It will take a while for habeus writs to be issued. When they are, I expect the Bush DOJ to use every delaying tactic at its disposal. The writs will in many cases result in the detainees being freed during the next, likely Democratic, administration. Watch for Republicans to howl that the Democrats are freeing terrorists.
As an aside, isn’t “detainees” a wonderfully euphemistic word? Some of those people have been “detained” for six fucking years. “Detainees” is of a piece with substituting “enhanced interrogation techniques” for “torture” and “extraordinary rendition” for “kidnapping.” The Bush administration’s trashing of the meaning of words gets lost among its greater crimes and yet that may be one of its most long-lasting evils.
If an incoming Obama administration actually puts these guys on trial, isn’t that going to open a Pandora’s box as far as torture and kidnapping? But, Bush and Cheney will be in Paraquay, right?
Oops, Paraguay.
Yo, Faux, you’re right, which is exactly why a bunch of these ain’t coming to trial…
I mean because the Bushies are going to be arranging releases to countries that will take them.