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Originally Posted by Ducay
You know when newspapers the world round, left and right, think its an insane decision, you probably got something wrong (albeit following the justice system we must live and die by).
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Actually that's when I know we've done something right. You realize this kid didn't hop on a plane and fly to Afghanistan on his own to join the jihad right? His parents brought him there when he was 13. We grant all kinds of special legal protection to minors simply because they aren't operating under the same autonomy adults are. Go have sex with a fifteen year old and see what happens. Yet people like you think the kid is patently evil. It's so stupid. Do you think he's a threat now? Do you think he would have done what he did had he not been raised by awful people? Do you think we should torture other fifteen year old killers? Maybe that 12 year old girl who killed her parents in Lethbridge should have been denied due process and legal counsel and sleep. That'd show her.
The only embarrassing part of this is that we got sucked in by the Americans and their stupid war on nothing. We didn't stand up for our own legal right and we got caught. That's embarrassing. Listening to smart people get this wrong is also embarrassing.