Terrorists, Compassion, and Zebra Mussels
This week Scotland released a convicted terrorist from prison on ‘compassionate grounds.’
Also, this week in North Dallas news it was announced that Lake Lavon has been infected with zebra mussels – an Eastern European species that is taking over the continental US. These harmful aquatic, hitch hikers are wrecking havoc on food chains and ecological systems. They colonize on anything in the water and can clog tubes, pipes, and boat engines.
Here’s where they were known to exist in 2000:
Notice, that then Texas wasn’t yet affected. Well, apparently now we are.
Zebra Mussels will colonize and destroy any available surface in water. They have no known predators and prey on anything irregardless.
They are invading my territory and I have no compassion for them whatsoever (even if they did originate from my well-beloved part of Europe and have cute little zebra stripes!) I say do whatever you have to to get rid of them!
So, my point is that terrorists are like these little pests. They won’t stop. They have nothing to stop them. They blasphemously ‘colonize’ in the name of religion and attack with no regard for human life. We’ve already showed compassion by civilly trying them in judicial courts and sentencing them to relatively safe and comfortable prisons. We haven’t blown them to shreds, dropped them from burning airplanes, decapitated them, or sliced them with shrapnel. Yet this is what they have done to us.
Ya know what Scots, you are real gentleman and there is something to be said about maintaining culture and values. So sure, release him from prison to die in peace. I’m fine with that. I’m even fine with notifying his family so that they can come visit his bedside. But come on, don’t publicly send him back home to be heralded a terrorist hero!
We do have to forgive, but we don’t have to be stupid.
I’m just sayin’.
Excellent use of “blasphemously”.
I’m with you. You don’t have to release someone from prison in order to have compassion. Has anybody thought of the fact that, since this guy is going to die anyway, he has no reason to live? Sounds like the perfect suicide bomber to me. Interesting comparison to the zebra mussel.
I first comment was from Ron, not me
Okay so I can’t type- THE first comment was from Ron, not me
Cool shopping cart picture. I wonder how a shopping cart got into the lake, and I wonder how many shopping carts are at the bottom of our lake.
P.S. I disagree with the public send-home, but also acknowledge that we drug this out into the public square, hoping to shame Scotland into reneging. Just goes to show: never try to publicly shame a Scot. They have no problem lifting their kilt and showing their manhood.
I do respect them for sticking to their rule of law. Maybe we should have stuck a little closely to our morals (and international obligations) when we went overboard on the water boarding…
Furthermore…
I just want to leave a third comment on this post.
This is Ron. I’m putting “Ron” in the Name box but it just ignores that and labels it as Deb.
Anyway, which is more important, so-called morals or saving American lives? The terrorists don’t live by any rules, morals, the Geneva Convention or anything remotely like those things. I firmly believe we should be doing whatever we have to do to these pests if it has the possibility of avoiding another 911.
Now, I don’t advocate torturing POW’s of countries with which we are at war. Most countries abide by the Geneva Convention rules.
These terrorists don’t abide by any rules and, if we expect to be able to keep our much beloved freedoms, we must toss out the rulebook when dealing with such terrorists. Otherwise, it will become impossible to keep them from killing thousands of American men, women and children. Our borders are just too long and our freedoms make it too easy to create awful havoc.