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Originally posted by Captain
Interesting.
The Founders views were relevant when you thought Washington denied Andre any process and summarily hanged him, but are irrelevant once you are shown to have been mistaken.
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It bears relevence to what the founder would have done at the time but does not bear relevance to what we should do today. In other words, the founding fathers would have not been very respectful of a muslims terrorists rights but I don't think that has much bearing on how we should treat these prisoners. Since they seemed OK with slavery (and thereby the torturing of African Americans after they tried to run away) then we should not turn to them when deciding what our standards should be.
However, I did find it ridiculous when someone tried to claim that the founding fathers would have been respectful of the rights of muslim terrorists. I think that is absurd.
My position never changed. You just weren't paying attention.
