Wanting to commit any violence against another American seems similar enough. You comfortable with redlining the fourth amendment out for all those accused of violent crime? Why stop there? Theft and other coercion represents a degradation against our fellow Americans. Surely they too are not worthy of due process. How many are we leaving out? Drug dealing/abuse? That's not very American either.
The ideals of this nation are found in the flawed, but honorable document which, coincidentally enough, contains the fourth amendment protecting the very people you seem to have no qualm in marginalizing.
The only possible way I can rationally interpret being more "American" is being more capable of placing the law above notions of personal feelings, opinions and differences. The more difficult it is to give the law its place over those things, to the benefit the worst of the worst; that, in my opinion is probably the only way to be "more American".
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Date: 5/5/10 05:16 (UTC)The ideals of this nation are found in the flawed, but honorable document which, coincidentally enough, contains the fourth amendment protecting the very people you seem to have no qualm in marginalizing.
The only possible way I can rationally interpret being more "American" is being more capable of placing the law above notions of personal feelings, opinions and differences. The more difficult it is to give the law its place over those things, to the benefit the worst of the worst; that, in my opinion is probably the only way to be "more American".