Comments on: Think you’ve seen this movie before? You have indeed. http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2009/11/24/think-youve-seen-this-movie-before-you-have-indeed/ My personal opinions on social and political issues from a progressive standpoint. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: E A M http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2009/11/24/think-youve-seen-this-movie-before-you-have-indeed/comment-page-1/#comment-21271 E A M Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:43:29 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/?p=6806#comment-21271 I think I've seen George Mason's mov(i)e before ...typical conservative trolling. I think I’ve seen George Mason’s mov(i)e before …typical conservative trolling.

]]> By: foottothefire http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2009/11/24/think-youve-seen-this-movie-before-you-have-indeed/comment-page-1/#comment-21270 foottothefire Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:31:02 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/?p=6806#comment-21270 George Mason's obfuscating horse shit reveals a bit of how a Conservatives mind works, but little else. Neither it (the horse shit) or Mulroney will do anything however to mitigate the fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper sanctioned torture. (He knew; oh yes, HE knew.) George Mason’s obfuscating horse shit reveals a bit of how a Conservatives mind works, but little else.
Neither it (the horse shit) or Mulroney will do anything however to mitigate the fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper sanctioned torture. (He knew; oh yes, HE knew.)

]]> By: George Mason http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2009/11/24/think-youve-seen-this-movie-before-you-have-indeed/comment-page-1/#comment-21268 George Mason Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:30:19 +0000 http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/?p=6806#comment-21268 ON WHEN TORTURE ISN'T EVIL "...in a situation of extreme necessity, the possibility, even a slight possibility, that it [torture] may reveal some life saving result would almost certainly overwhelm any consideration that it is evil." - Michael Ignatieff, The Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, January 2003 ON HOW DEMOCRACIES SHOULD JUSTIFY TORTURE "The use of coercive force in a liberal democracy...is regarded as a lesser evil. This particular view of democracy does not prohibit emergency suspensions of rights in times of terror. But it imposes an obligation on government to justify such measures publicly, to submit them to judicial review, and to circumscribe them with sunset clauses so that they do not become permanent." - Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political ethics in an age of terror, Princeton University Press, 2004 DION'S WIFE "To justify violence, he must have really given it serious thought. Otherwise, that's very dangerous. What guarantee would there be that he wouldn't change his mind again?" - Terrorism and counter-terrorism scholar Dr. Janine Krieber, Facebook message as reprinted in Toronto Star, 21 November 2009 ON WHEN TORTURE ISN’T EVIL
“…in a situation of extreme necessity, the possibility, even a slight possibility, that it [torture] may reveal some life saving result would almost certainly overwhelm any consideration that it is evil.” – Michael Ignatieff, The Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, January 2003

ON HOW DEMOCRACIES SHOULD JUSTIFY TORTURE
“The use of coercive force in a liberal democracy…is regarded as a lesser evil. This particular view of democracy does not prohibit emergency suspensions of rights in times of terror. But it imposes an obligation on government to justify such measures publicly, to submit them to judicial review, and to circumscribe them with sunset clauses so that they do not become permanent.” – Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political ethics in an age of terror, Princeton University Press, 2004

DION’S WIFE
“To justify violence, he must have really given it serious thought. Otherwise, that’s very dangerous. What guarantee would there be that he wouldn’t change his mind again?” – Terrorism and counter-terrorism scholar Dr. Janine Krieber, Facebook message as reprinted in Toronto Star, 21 November 2009

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