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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
Try them were? In the U.S.? Wasn't going to happen. Fairfax County, VA was one of the proposed locations to hold the trials and folks around here went bananas just from the proposal itself. I find it difficult to imagine that the reaction would be different anywhere else.
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Yeah, they were acting like fools. Still, I don't think that public discomfort is the roadblock on this issue. It's about looking "soft on terror", demonstrating that Democrats are still playing by the axioms established by the chickenhawk GOP. The left won't truly have power until they take it. Setting up Limbaugh as the unofficial leader of the Republican Party was a good first test of progressive strategizing, but it's small fries. It's time to create leftist buzz-phrases like "stupid on terrorism" or "soft on reality"; it's time for the Democratic government to start releasing complete and factually correct information that can be verified in order to have a properly educated populace; it's time for a number of things, but first and foremost we need to clean up the biggest messes that are ongoing, which includes the innocent or guilty prisoners that are being held without trial. They're a drain on resources and holding them without due process is unethical and hypocritical.