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Power Femme
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Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
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Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa
Sneaky motherf*uckers! If I was king, BP would be liquidated, it's assets used to restore all the damages, and the people responsible would be publicly executed without a trial, warrent, or judge's signature. If a serial killer can get the chair, so should the folks who murder and destroy on such A MASSIVE SCALE.
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So you do not have a problem, at least in principle, with the Bush administration suspending habeus corpus, the 'enemy combatant' designation putting a person beyond either US civil law OR the Geneva conventions, black sites, extraordinary rendition or Guantanamo Bay? Because what you say above--and I understand the anger--sounds like you think precisely this kind of thing should happen to organizations like BP.
Blessedly, we (humanity) have largely given up on the Divine Right of Kings.
Cheers
Aj
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