Osama blah blah blah you know the story.

[fruckert]

*high fives*

[fruckert]

No offense.

Buuuuullshiiiiiit.

ed: The **** kind of weird bots are we attracting now?

[fruckert]

Strangely enough, I do.
Weird.

[Archem]

I remember how I was more likely to start my own fads instead of falling into line on existing ones.

[Cerebus]

.::Proud Owner::.

.::NES Controller::.

But anyway...

[SaiKar]

I had a (legit) screenshot of the forum saying "Kijuki is perfoming an illegal action" and a big smug FOR SHAME under it. Good times.

[Valiere]

But didn't the US once blow up a couple CITIES in Japan or something? I'm pretty sure that whoever was responsible for that ended up killing WAY more innocent people than Osama.

Accepting the killing of bin Laden doesn't mean you accept every single decision the US government has ever made.

I personally feel the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was egregiously unnecessary and a war crime on the part of Truman. A number of military officials at the time (including Eisenhower) thought so too.

However, this is entirely different.

[Archem]

Nah, he would have been guilty, killed, and time/money would have been wasted doing so. On top of that, who's to say that AQ wouldn't have pulled something while we were waiting for the trial?

Sure, it's not how things typically work, but **** him.

[Zerlina]

I'd be fine with Bin Laden's death if it had happened after a trial and they said he was guilty. But the way it happened, it was just murder and murder sucks.

You're aware that he already admitted he did it so it would just be a show trial.

[drenrin2120]

Osama was killed in war. It may be a cop out, but you're suggesting the same thing could start happening in the streets of our cities, while not at war. Lucas, that's just not true.

[Zerlina]

The law is the goddamn law. You write it, you're supposed to follow it. I know that we don't live in a perfect world (and many of the laws are far from perfect) but cops aren't allowed to shoot people in the streets if they say that they are guilty, they need a trial first, and they need to be killed in a more "humane" way. I don't see why it would be different for Bin Laden the the military.

Would you rather die in the chair or by a lethal injection, or be ****ing shot at?

Sure, he was evil, he did evil things. But I don't remember ever hearing about anything in the US law that says that evil people should be shot as soon as they're found and that they don't deserve a trial.

If it's okay to shoot Osama, it's okay to shoot random "evil" guys in the street, as long as you "know" that they did something wrong. Is it? No. It's not.

Read this please. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

[Zerlina]

I love you.

D'AWWWWWW. I love you too!!

[SaiKar]

Lucas. If you were thinking about deleting a bunch of stuff on Charas and than blaming me because I didn't do a backup of the site, you may find that a bit difficult.

You're fired as a global mod. You're still staff, but that doesn't give you any actual powers.

I have no idea what sort world you live in where you think that it's okay to take your personal opinions of the actions of the United States government out on people on this forum, but it's not going to be this one while I'm an admin.

Chill. Relax. Leave the computer a while. Go outside. Realize that none of us had anything to do with this. And calm the **** down.

We'll talk about reinstating mod powers later.

[drenrin2120]

Ah, jeez lucas, what'd you do?

[drenrin2120]

Wait, what is right. I thought for a second lucas went off the handle and deleted something again.

Since that's not the case, first off: you know sai, we DO have a private board. Second: honestly? I mean, really?