The Immigration Protests

Originally Posted by Gumby

Well if you did imprison them, hard labor would be the answer. That is what they supposedly came here to do right?

Except that hard labor maybe considered "cruel and unusual punishment" and would be banned by our Bill of Rights, even if they are illegal immigrants, and especially if it were to take place on US soil, now if they were shipped to Guantanamo it might be a different story.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by LeHah

I don't see picking litter off my highways or making license plates as either cruel or unusual. But I *would* see people bitching that it's "wrong" somehow, since those people weren't citizens.

Well if you had just picking up litter and hammering out license plates then I would agree with you that its not cruel nor unusual. However whatever legal help these immigrants could get (probably provided by our gov't, our tax dollars, AGAIN!) wouldn't see it in the same light and they'll probably make a big deal about it. Then sooner or later those people you mentioned would show up and make even more fuss about how horribly wrong all this is.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by LeHah

I'm still an advocate for "cruel and unusual punishment" because that may stop criminality from being so widespread. That doesn't mean I believe that jaywalkers should be flogged - but murderers? Rapists? Most certainly. And the more callous the crime, the more horrific the punishment.

So you're all for the Hammurabi's whole and eye for an eye idea? But not Draconian I assume.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.