A Question

[pecunium]

From Bill O'Reilly we get the following.

[W]ould you support President John Edwards? Remember, no coerced interrogation, civilian lawyers in courts for captured overseas terrorists, no branding the Iranian guards terrorists, and no phone surveillance without a specific warrant.

To which the the only answer I can think of is,

Hell yes.

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I'd not vote for Edwards solely because he supports those things, but supporting all of them would certainly be a requirement for anyone I would vote for.

But yes, if O'Rielly asked me that on his show, I'd... probably dither between responding with "Hell, yes!" and "Of course." (Possibly adding "As a patriotic American I'd _have_ to if none of the other candidates supported those traditional American rights".)

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

(Possibly adding "As a patriotic American I'd _have_ to if none of the other candidates supported those traditional American rights".)

To which I might add: "The question, Bill, is why YOU would have a problem with the Rule of Law."

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Being a slow thinker, I'd hesitate to give him an opening for some Clever & Sly Retort, and probably would restrict myself to agreeing with the Founding Fathers ideal that these basic and inalienable rights apply to everyone. No matter what people are accused of, no matter who accuses them, no matter what their nationality, if they're held by an arm of the American Government they _have_ those Rights. Period.