Replies to post #216872 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[mlsoft]

seabass...

I would suggest you drop that anti-administration hysteria and try to apply some common sense. You cite two examples, neither of which have anything to do with the laws you claim to be so worried about (one was not even a US citizen and the story is somewhat doubtful at best), yet you totally ignore that islamic extremists have already murdered thousands of our citizens and attacked us here on our own soil and have vowed to attack and kill us whenever they are able.

As I said in my previous post, if you cannot see the difference between the two threats and fathom that the threat from the islamists is far more tangible than the virtually non-existent threat you mention, then you are simply blinded by your anti-administration hatred to the point where you are unable to think logically.

mlsoft

[StephanieVanbryce]

And also a photographer from Aljeerza .. (spelling ..??? , forgive me ..) .. I have read that our torture has so totally destroyed him that he is carried around on a -- heck -- I can't think of the name of those things .. shaped like a tongue with two wheels .. oh .. yeah .. wheel barrel .. ?? .. is that it ..?? .. Never been to court .. never charged with a crime .. .. A photographer .. ! .. for GAWD sakes ..

[StephanieVanbryce]

Rumsfeld Jails a Journalist Without Charges
28 Oct 2006 02:25 pm

The AP is fighting back. Money quote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_us/apme_detained_photographer_5

[Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography] said he reviewed [Bilal] Hussein's images and interviewed his colleagues and found nothing to suggest he was doing more than his job in a war zone. The vast majority of images depicts the realities of war, Lyon said, and "may be an inconvenient truth, but a truth nonetheless."

David Zeeck, president of ASNE and executive editor of The News Tribune, of Tacoma, Wash., called Hussein's detention without charges "contrary to American values."

"This is how Saddam Hussein dealt with reporters; he would hold them incommunicado," Zeeck said.