Michael Moore thinks Osama Bin Laden deserved a trial

In a perfect world he would have had a trial.

In a perfect world he wouldn't have done what he did to deserve being hunted down.

He got what he deserved, given the circumstances.

Osama Bin Laden deserved a trial? He got it....
Seal Team 6....Judge.....Jury.....Executioner...
Excellent !!!!!! Too bad Moore wasn't sleeping over with Bin that night in April .

In a perfect world he wouldn't have done what he did to deserve being hunted down.

He got what he deserved, given the circumstances.

Agreed, pretty much what I was getting at.

A trial would have been messy and would have dug up a lot of old wounds, only to end up putting him to death anyway, and it would have incited his supporters even more.

Osama commited suicide as soon as he concocted a plan and attacked American soil and he reaffirmed his death wish when he tried to reach for a weapon when the navy seals entered his room. Suicide by American Soldiers...it was inevitable, deserved, and just.

Best post yet. /thread.

Moore is a jackass for a number of reasons, but I don't have an issue with this specific opinion.

Could you imagine being a family member of one of the victims of 9/11 and sitting there (in person or on tv) listening to Bin Laden defend himself and explain why he ordered what he did?


...but he wasn't the mastermind behind 9/11. That guy we had already killed.


edit: Not going to say M. Moore is a idiot and all the other shit some of you spew, but I understand his view, even though I don't agree with it. At what point do we draw the line in the sand? Who's to say that the cops or other law enforcement don't paint some guy as a target and do the same thing? Who's to judge who gets what punishment? It's a slippery slope.

...but he wasn't the mastermind behind 9/11. That guy we had already killed.


edit: Not going to say M. Moore is a idiot and all the other shit some of you spew, but I understand his view, even though I don't agree with it. At what point do we draw the line in the sand? Who's to say that the cops or other law enforcement don't paint some guy as a target and do the same thing? Who's to judge who gets what punishment? It's a slippery slope.

But it wasn't the cops or some other law enforcement.
It was the American military vs a terrorist organization.
You comparison sucks and is full of hyperbole.

^ The point is that, military or not, the Constitution is the Constitution. Military action, the feelings of victims, heinousness of crimes, grandstanding at a trial, etc., are not reasons to throw the Constitution out of the window.

Once people begin to ignore the Constitution, as many in this thread have, you have to wonder if or when ignoring the Constitution will end.

Bin Laden had a Constitutional right to a trial. Period.

...but he wasn't the mastermind behind 9/11. That guy we had already killed.

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KSM is alive. We captured him in 2003 and he's been sitting in a jail cell ever since.

UBL may not have been the so-called mastermind, but he was the leader of al-Qaida and gave the go ahead to carry out the attacks in his/their name.

^ The point is that, military or not, the Constitution is the Constitution. Military action, the feelings of victims, heinousness of crimes, grandstanding at a trial, etc., are not reasons to throw the Constitution out of the window.

Once people begin to ignore the Constitution, as many in this thread have, you have to wonder if or when ignoring the Constitution will end.

Bin Laden had a Constitutional right to a trial. Period.

Horsehockey!
Bin Laden wasn't an American, we are at war......it doesn't apply to him. How in the world could you validate him getting the benefit of our Constitution?
And by that rationale we could never kill anyone on the battlefield, we'd have to capture all of them and put them on trial.