Re: On the Elimination of Osama bin Laden
"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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Yes, actually it does. If we condone the use of privateers and mercs to avoid putting the blood on our hands we are responsible for what they do and historically they, like modern bounty hunters perhaps, exist outside normal laws and use tactics that are illegal in other instances. My point was that we are trading one form of moral outrage for another. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of david white Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] On the Elimination of Osama bin Laden Karl, marque and reprisal has nothing to do with condoning torture by privateers. He's refering to the claim by some that the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was justified because it ultimately led to the killing of Bin Laden. I'll send a Reason article summarizing the claims in a separate email. David www.facebook.com/rothbardband > He had me until here. > > " Tragically, one result may be the acceptance of torture as a > legitimate tool for pursuing our foreign policy. A free society, > calling itself a republic, grounded in the rule of law, should never > succumb to such evil." > > I understand his reluctance to accept torture (however he defines it > is fine for this purpose), but then in the same email to read his > enthusiastic acceptance of Marque and Reprisal (which is essentially > mercenaries and privateers seeking and killing our enemies), well it > seems to me he only cares about blood on people's hands when it is > ours. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of david white Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:14 PM To: > [email protected] Subject: [DADL-OT] On the Elimination of Osama bin > Laden > > http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=186 > 0:on- the-elimination-of-osama-bin-laden&catid=62:texas-straight-talk&Itemid=69 -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot