To USA: "Could It Be That OLD Europe Has MORE Balls Than Gun Toting Wingnuts Of USA?

[kpete]

Even the Dutch Talking Smack Now
05.22.09 -- 12:40PM
By David Kurtz

TPM Reader BB, a "proud citizen of the Netherlands," says it's time the U.S. man up and stop NIMBYing the Gitmo detainees:

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Could it be that a small country in "old" Europe has more balls than the gun toting folk wingnuts of the US have?

Where does the World Court reside? It resides in the Hague in the Netherlands. the Netherlands has a population of 16 million (that are not allowed to bear arms or such).

The world courts deals with the worst of the worst, anything in Gitmo pails to what these folks have done.

Let's take those war criminals (of which dozens have been tried and sentenced) from the Balkan conflict as an example. Here is a group that still has lots of support (Serbs primarily) all across Europe. They are in cells in the Hague which is driving distance from their homeland. Not like some poor Afghan farmer totally divorced from his people, these people have strong support living with a few hours drive!! Almost nothing could stop them from attacking and trying to release there leaders (and heros), or at least taking revenge on the country they are incarcerated in. The REAL danger to this court pails to anything the perceived Gitmo people could possibly do.

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But, do you hear the good people of the Netherlands on the streets demanding these criminals leave or cowering under their beds at night? No, it just might be that not all folks in the globe are NIMBY and some have the balls to realize that freedom comes at a price, and you never know when you will have to pay up in full.


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[Captain Hilts]

1. You don't need "balls" to be tough. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. LOL I was waiting for that. I learned MY lesson.

:toast: :fistbump:

OT, but I just watched The Great Escape again the other day, and was once again struck by the boyishness of Steve McQueen.

Dude was pretty nifty on two wheels too!

[Captain Hilts]

6. I just love all the characters in that film, but my dad just LOVED the Cooler King!

Hang tough and have a great holiday weekend!

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. More OT

Hey Mook, sorry about the sweep the other day! And five errors including missing a base...? ouch that had ta hurt.

30 wins tonight!

Damn, if it were some other team that had a .690 winning percentage after 40+ games, the baseball pundits would be repeating this mantra: Dominant... Dominant... Dominant...

My Boys in Blue get no respect I tell ya! (And don't you DARE say they've only beaten the teams in the West... they won their series against Philly and SWEPT the Mets, all WITHOUT ManRam) Go to the Mets website, click "Stats", then "Sortable Team Stats".

^5

[Captain Hilts]

9. There IS an East Coast bias in the sporting press. Most definitely. nt

[cali]

4. courage is obviously a male only attribute

[sui generis]

3. Well you'd think Americans invented terrorism

Europe has been dealing with it far far longer than our self-important windbaggery of 9/11.

We've placed an almost "holy" aura around 9/11, forgetting that the first U.S. building of note that came down was from a domestic terrorist in Oklahoma City.

All of a sudden the rest of the world "just doesn't get it" and how dare anyone claim that a terrorist act was "their" 9/11 (remember the rail bombings in Spain?).

We are a bunch of self-important windbags. Best evidence is all the mall sakoority dues to 9-eleben, in some har haired suburb deep in the midwest.

[mmonk]

5. If they do, it's damn past time to act.

[proteus_lives]

7. LOL.

Always with the guns. It couldn't be Right Wingers or Bushbots or Fascists. What does gun ownership have to do with this?

[Chulanowa]

10. Not gun ownership. Wingnuts with guns

Courage in a cartridge, sort of like bravery in a bottle.