England to US: "Please keep our terrorists - we don't want 'em!"

[agricola]

rrader,

if its perverse and low not to convict people except on the basis that they have been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of an offence against the law, then this may be your first ever correct statement made on THR.

i'll always remember when i was when this historic moment occured

 

[rrader]

Agricola:

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if its perverse and low not to convict people except on the basis that they have been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt of an offence against the law, then this may be your first ever correct statement made on THR.

You've missed the point as always. Perhaps a little more work on your reading comprehension skill is in order.

The perverse aspect was the UK's incompetence in granting asylum to former Taliban fighters.

And as always, the low and retrograde aspect is the utter incompetence of the UK's justice system in handling criminal and terrorist cases of all types.

You must be referring to convictions "beyond a reasonable doubt of an offence (sic) against the law" like the convictions of "terrorists" such as the "Guilford 4"

The Government of the UK has looked out across the vast wasteland that is its criminal justice system, taken into account it's incompetence in proceedure and vastly incompetent law enforcement personnel, and decided to let the Americans handle it.

We'll, to paraphrase Inspector Callahan, "A country's got to know its limitations"

 

[agricola]

rrader,

ah, because the asylum seekers point was so clear from your post

dont miscarriages of justice happen in the US then? i presume your comments vis a vis the Guildford Four mean thats what you are suggesting?

Still, i guess we should be thankful that we arent allowing you to come and take all our terrorists off us because one imagines next years St. Patricks Day parade in Gitmo would be a sellout if you did.

Your comments on incompetence are humourous coming from someone who was challenged to produce evidence of me being factually wrong, and has failed to do so... couldnt find any, could you?

ps: the asylum programme is not part of the Criminal Justice system - its part of the Immigration Service.

 

[Khornet]

Weeellll, lessee...

We have an organization dedicated to the killing of unarmed, defenseless civilians, especially Americans. Said organization proceeds to do so. Americans attack their home base, and kill some and capture others.

Those captured are then imprisoned in humane circumstances, where they remain...gaining weight, with better health care than they had back home. Even their religious needs are catered to by their captors.

There's only one way you can find a problem with this. Only one way you can find it damning that the acts of the captors are not letter-perfect.

That's if you're not quite sure that the captives are as bad as all that, and not quite sure that America didn't have it coming to some degree. Then the glass will appear half-empty, and a few displays of temper or haste from the US will outweigh the great restraint she has shown.

There's plenty of this on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

[rrader]

Agricola:

ah, because the asylum seekers point was so clear from your post

You seem to be the only one having any problem understanding it.

Sad indictment of the UK justice system and its personnel when the Blair Government won't trust it to try its own citizens competently.

Your comments on incompetence are humourous coming from someone who was challenged to produce evidence of me being factually wrong, and has failed to do so... couldnt find any, could you?

This statement is just further proof you have a problem with your reading comprehension skills.

Still, i guess we should be thankful that we arent allowing you to come and take all our terrorists off us because one imagines next years St. Patricks Day parade in Gitmo would be a sellout if you did.

I'll be attending the parade in Boston. Paul Hill will most likely be attending also. Go Irish!

 

[morganm01]

Couldn't the T's just apologize like the rest of Britains criminals?

 

[agricola]

rrader,

you havent found any have you?

 

[seeker_two]

I'll agree to the proposal IF we can send them 10 of our illegal aliens for each "terrorist" that we keep...