Palin on Justice

[beamjockey]

I heard Governor Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night.

At one point, she listed contrasts between Senator McCain and "our opponent."

Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.

Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.

And then she said:

Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights.

This was met with cheers from the assembled Republicans.

I was disturbed.

Is Gov. Palin opposed to reading criminals their rights? Is McCain?

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

In fact, the people we're fighting are somewhat organized groups of common criminals. They operate embedded in the general population. The work of finding them and getting them locked up is much more like policing than like fighting a war. Sending soldiers into city neighborhoods to attack and defeat the 18 people that associate with terrorism (15 of them rather vaguely) is pretty much guaranteed to have a bad outcome (high civilian casualties; and next week that neighborhood has 38 people associated with terrorism living in it).

Right

[techgrrl.livejournal.com]

This is not a war where organized armies take to the field of battle and fight, this is a criminal action, and you need police investigation, good intelligence work and so forth. Calling it a war on terror is rhetoric, and misses the point.