A whole lot of blather has been put forward by Blackman's apologists(such as author Frederick Forsythe who to my mind should stick to writing thrillers and keep his political views to himself) and the press about "Our Boys"(GOD, I HATE that phrase!) doing a difficult job under difficult and dangerous circumstances, be it in Afghanistan, Iraq(or before that Northern Ireland). It IS true that counter insurgency is a notoriously brutal form of combat whether in the back streets of Belfast and Derry, the "bandit country" of South Armagh, or the rice paddies of Vietnam, but even so, there are SOME things that are impermissible even in such circumstances. I thought the inception of the International Criminal Court at The Hague(which could hypothetically have tried Blackman as both the UK and Afghanistan are signatories-in reality it was too small scale a case to merit the Court's attention with a single defendant and a single victim. US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, of Kandahar massacre notoriety would have been a much more more fitting case, but of course successive US Administration, Bush, Obama and now presumably Trump does NOT accept that the ICC has any jurisdiction over members of the US Armed Forces(and presumably American citizens as a whole)and any he was sentenced to life in prison by a court martial.
Has anybody noticed the hypocrisy of papers like the Daily Express, Mail and Telegraph(which often demand a tough"law and order" policy for convicted criminals) adopting the compassion of St Teresa of Kolkata?!
For sources see Twitter hashtags~#MissingDCGirls and #ProtectOur Girls as well as today's edition of the London Metro( www. metro.co.uk, March 27, 2016).
Is Bow Wow in a position to make good on his threats "to pimp Melania Trump out and make her work for us"(presumably as a sex slave)? Not unless he is willing to risk being shot dead by the Secret Service/NYPD by breaking into Trump Tower!
By any reasonable standards, Tim Allen's claims that being conservative in Hollywood was like being in Germany during the 1930s was and is imcomparably MORE offensive than Bow Wow's threats!
When Allen claims that you get "beat up" for supporting Trump in Hollywood does he actually MEAN being physically assaulted (as opposed to being criticized or sent to Coventry)???
Bow Wow made a fool out of himself by threatening to"pimp FLOTUS out and make her work for us" but Tim Allen devalued the bona fide suffering of millions under Nazi rule by his asinine comparison- to my mind therefore(bias irrelevant) his comments were more deserving of condemnation!
To quote the late conservative US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter(who famously refused to hire his future successor Ruth Bader Ginzburg, apparently on purely sexist grounds)-"there are some things that you cannot do even to a dog!"
Does Bow Wow even know what "pimping" a woman out(never mind fully fledged sex slavery) is like in reality??? Would he like to see his mother, sisters or female relatives "pimped out" I have seen what it entails(albeit in police dramas such as "law And Order: Special Victims Unit") and it is NOT a pretty sight!
To be fair, EVERY superhero/heroine has an identity crisis from time to time- am i (insert name of hero/heroine here), masked avenger of the night or mild mannered/playboy socialite( ie Zorro, Batman, Iron Man) much like undercover cops or spies who have been in "deep cover" too long!
Furthermore, Rubear, I have been accused on other Internet forums of being variously "Islamophobic" "anti- American"(esp during the George W. Bush Adminstration era), and even on one of being"anti-Semitic" so if you intend to tar me as some kind of "Russophobe"( during the Cold War the title was "anti-Soviet" but since the USSR has been defunct for a quarter century that phrase is pretty passe). I was once kicked off a Catholic website not for disagreeing or questioning Church teaching but for referring to the US military as a collection of mouth breathing borderline psychopaths with an inveterate lust for blood( I have since rejoined it), so I call it how I see it, and I am prepared to face down the"fish eyed Chekist"(I presume you know of whom I speak) in the Kremlin as I my own country or any others!
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