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Well, when you're being detained

Posted by Tracy Y on 2/16/2006, 20:35:48, in reply to "Re: Ok - I'll try this "
whether you're arrested for a domestic crime or international one, I think it's assumed that they're not going to call you up and say, "Hey, we really want to have coffee with you and shoot the breeze for a bit. Would you come down and see us at your earliest convenience?" People are detained for a reason - whether it's valid or not.

And yes - there are issues with the way people are treated. But what we think is an issue is not considered negative at all in other countries. It's all relative.

But since we're citizens of the US, and talking about US law, then I think we need to deal with how THAT's not working, and WHY it's not working. Where's the focus? Personally, I'm less willing to judge a situation in which I have no personal knowledge. It's a fact that what we see on the news are the views of only those reporting it. If you see a picture of a building, you only see the picture of the building. You don't know what's going on inside. We can speculate, and we can assume. But I really wouldn't want to be the judge from my living room here in the States, just cuz I see the picture of a building in Iraq on the news. And I'm using this building as metaphor, not a literal example.


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