Osama bin Laden is dead

[AppleQueso]

Letting them use up tax payers' money in prison for 100 years would be adding insult to injury.

A bit off the rails here, but the amusing thing about this comment is that it actually costs taxpayers MORE money to execute someone on death row than to just give them life in prison.

[dsheinem]

Letting them use up tax payers' money in prison for 100 years would be adding insult to injury.

A bit off the rails here, but the amusing thing about this comment is that it actually costs taxpayers MORE money to execute someone on death row than to just give them life in prison.

That's very debatable

[vash23n]

Others are pulling out Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes about how they refuse to celebrate someone's death no matter how evil the person may have been, portraying such a "holier than though" attitude.

Ironically, that quote is a fake.

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/f ... ama_death/

I'm glad to hear that the quote wasn't actually said by King. I never liked it. I have always been a big fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and hearing that quote made me lose a bit of respect for him. Now I can happily go back to thinking highly of him.

If a completely fucking evil person dies, you should feel happy. If you don't feel happy, then you are an asshole in my eyes.

Of course, killing an evil person won't undo the harmful acts they committed, nor will it bring the dead back to life. It will however, prevent future harmful acts from occurring. It can save lives that would have been lost, had that evil person continued to go unchecked. Some people are so fucking rotten to the core, that there is no helping them. Killing them may be the best decision. Letting them use up tax payers' money in prison for 100 years would be adding insult to injury.

Osama bin Laden was one of those completely fucking evil mother fuckers, that was beyond hopeless (at least that's what we know from the media). So if someone like that is dead now, it's completely acceptable for someone to think "Hey that's great! He won't kill anymore people!".

Holy crap, well said!

I am also happy that that MLKJ quote is a fake.

[AppleQueso]

Letting them use up tax payers' money in prison for 100 years would be adding insult to injury.

A bit off the rails here, but the amusing thing about this comment is that it actually costs taxpayers MORE money to execute someone on death row than to just give them life in prison.

That's very debatable

hm

whaddya know

[brunoafh]

Letting them use up tax payers' money in prison for 100 years would be adding insult to injury.

A bit off the rails here, but the amusing thing about this comment is that it actually costs taxpayers MORE money to execute someone on death row than to just give them life in prison.

That's very debatable

It's unfortunate that this debate even exists. Fuck humanity.

[the7k]

A bit off the rails here, but the amusing thing about this comment is that it actually costs taxpayers MORE money to execute someone on death row than to just give them life in prison.

That's very debatable

Then let us debate it!

Personally, I think life without parole is a much for fitting punishment for those irredeemable criminals and terrorists, because it's like they're on some kind of prison colony planet in the future where they just have to fight for the rest of their lives.

[aaron]

this article, though not directly related to the bin laden situation (it was written 3.5 years ago), basically sums up exactly how i feel about the whole scenario and the ensuing celebrations: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/a ... wink.shtml

as conspiracy theories go, i think they're interesting, and i do think that there are some serious questions that need to be asked, but i do rescind a lot of my feelings about this being a politically-charged power play, mostly because that's not really the issue that's the most important. what's done is done and what matters now is how we, as a society and as individuals, react.

[Limewater]

If a completely fucking evil person dies, you should feel happy. If you don't feel happy, then you are an asshole in my eyes.

I'm pretty sure I was already an asshole in your eyes before they killed Bin Laden, but I guess this cinches it.

[saturnfan]

Osama has actually been living with George W. Bush for the past 10 years, so he is not really dead.

[AppleQueso]

My grandfather used to tell me stories about seeing Bush Jr. hanging around bars and whatnot.