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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:03 AM

  hybleaean

  some links- he really is a scumbag- not that that gives us the right to torture prisoners of war.

  We don't imprison people for being "scumbags." We imprison them for breaking the law.

  Lots of people justify what happens at Guantanamo and what happened at Abu Grahib based on the fact -- surely true -- that some of them are "scumbags." That doesn't justify the treatment.

  Lots of people -- neo-Nazis and racists, to begin with -- express political views that make them "scumbags." Are you going to cheer if they're prosecuted for their views based on the fact that they're "scumbags" and don't deserve sympathy?

  http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=3635

  "A couple of the comments that follow the article are written by a woman calling herself “Neesa” who says quite graphically that she was raped and abused by Hardcore.–Ann Bartow"

  So someone on the Internet claims anonymously to have been raped and now you believe it? Fine - if that claim is true - then he should be prosecuted for rape and, if convicted, imprisoned for a long time. But that's not the crime he's been accused of committing.

  Cheering someone's conviction based on extremely precarious constitutional grounds because someone on the Internet anonymously accused him of committing some unrelated crime is pretty dangerous and irrational, for obvious reasons.

  —GlennGreenwald Read GlennGreenwald's other letters
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