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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
I like that idea...Sometimes I wish Republicans were fascists, only with righteous brutality and limited government.
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Authorizing the state to kill people is a bad idea. Citizens have the right to use lethal force in self defense, but allowing the state to kill people, particularly in a ritualistic state execution, is not a good idea.
In this instance, the accused was mostly tried because he didn't tell the state what they wanted to know. Since he obviously did't participate in the 9/11/2001 criminal actions, he can't be tried for those.
"Conspiracy to commit" laws have no basis in common law, and as such should be held unConstitutional. Yes, all of them. They amount to no more than thought crimes.