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| September 22nd, 2015 at 7:42:32 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18776 | That's a lousy 18th birthday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gaby-scanlon-liquid-nitrogen_55fc01c5e4b0fde8b0cdcef6 You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 8:11:53 PM permalink | |
| reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
OK, I'll play devil's advocate. It's a waste of German taxpayer money and prison space to prosecute a 91 year old for crimes from 60 years ago. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong... |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 8:22:17 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
There is a time to let things go. I agree that this is clearly one of those times. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 9:02:38 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18776 |
Well, I know we sometimes release real old people who are really sick, but she's never served a day. Plenty of people die in prison. We don't release them just because they are old. (or do we?) I think they generally have to be unwell, or considered to serve their time. But yeah, prosecuting someone this late, is pretty close to throwing money away. She might live to 105. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 9:42:40 PM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Rolf Harris is 84, held in a moldy wing of HMP STAFFORD despite his lung condition and was convicted on scandalously inadequate evidence of purely historical sex offenses. |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 9:50:48 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
You're 1000% wrong. She was on the wrong side of the worst mass killings in human history. I hate to be trite, but it really is the principle of the thing. New research is showing as many as 20 million died in the Nazi camps, much more than the estimated 12 million. While this is still in the living memory of millions of people, it matters. It will matter as long as there is human memory. http://www.businessinsider.com/shocking-new-holocaust-study-claims-nazis-killed-up-to-20-million-people-2013-3 If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 9:52:45 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18776 |
I didn't see evidence mentioned as a problem in this one. Aren't the Nazis the ones famous for "I was just following orders" defense? Or in some cases they claim not to noticed anything. Think it'd be pretty hard to actually work in one of those camps and not notice anything. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 22nd, 2015 at 10:50:57 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
The Nuremburg Defense. I believe it's no longer a used as a viable defense, that you committed a crime because you were ordered to. You still did the crime, you could have said no. Many German officers accused of war crimes in WWI were acquitted using the 'superior orders' defense. That's why the Nazi's on trial in 45 were so smug they would get off. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, later to be a Supreme Court Justice, had the superior orders defense made invalid before the trials began. Sorry, Nazi's.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 23rd, 2015 at 12:31:35 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18776 |
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/22/army-ranger-uses-gopro-to-document-domestic-abuse-claim/?cmpid=edpick&google_editors_picks=true Even before gopro, I've always wondered why people didn't use recording devices more often. Sound recorders, even good digital ones have been around for a long time, especially good for repeated personal disputes. Even when recording is illegal , if you need allies to believe your side of the story, it's useful at least as something that will convince someone else. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| September 23rd, 2015 at 7:18:27 AM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
History is written by the victors EB. If things had turned out differently the pilots and the thousands of people that worked on the A bomb would all be found guilty of war crimes. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |