Ron Paul Matchup: Boba Fett vs. Bin Laden
H.R. 3216: Ron Paul seeks bounty hunters to track down Osama Bin Laden
According to the Politico,
Paul has offered legislation (H.R. 3216) to authorize Bush to issue “letters of marquee and reprisal” to those private citizens or entities that want “to seize outside the geographic boundaries of the United States and its territories the person and property of Osama bin Laden, of any al Qaeda co-conspirator, and of any conspirator with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda who are responsible for the air piratical aggressions and depredations perpetrated upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001,” or future attacks.
Paul offered this proposal back in October 2001, arguing that it would allow “Congress to authorize the President to specifically target Bin Laden and his associates using non-government armed forces. Since it is nearly impossible for U.S. intelligence teams to get close to Bin Laden, the marque and reprisal approach creates an incentive for people in Afghanistan or elsewhere to turn him over to the [United States].”
However, these types of bounty hunting commissions were outlawed in 1856 by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Crimean War.
While the United States was not a party to that treaty, and the Confederate States of America issued such letters during the Civil War, they are pretty much an anachronism.
Poor bounty hunters.
Sorry Bobba Fett. Sorry Bossk, Dengar and Greedo. Sorry Aurra Sing, Zuckuss, and DOG. Progress denies you your wacky ways.
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Considering that the U.S. isn’t a signer of the Treaty of Paris, what does this have to do with the cost of the tea in China? What other treaties will the writer of this article expect the U.S. to uphold that we haven’t signed?
Heck, just roll your mouse over the link for “Treaty of Paris” above and it will even tell you who signed this treaty in the pop up window.
Russia, France, United Kingdom……nope, the U.S. isn’t in there anywhere.
I think it would be a great idea to put forward a large enough bounty on the head of bin Laden that his protectors would give him up.
Over $600 billion spent on this ‘War’ so far and we can’t (or won’t) bring bin Laden in.
Let’s face it, Bush ‘lite’ hasn’t gotten anywhere in bringing the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks to justice.
Oh, do Americans still think that Saddam Hussein was responsible for those attacks.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Bush and Cheney while attempting to implicate Saddam in some type of collusion in the 9/11 attacks both admit he had nothing to do with the attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3118262.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47812-2004Jun16.html
Don’t you just love blogs like this that try to marginalize Rep. Paul as a candidate but can’t even do a little leg work to see if http://www.politico.com might actually have their facts straight?
Someone needs to reread the article and the subsequent links *