When we finally capture OSAMA BIN LADEN, should we imprison him, or execute him ?

Question

Would we run the risk of making him a martyr if he's executed ? Or if we lock him up ? Or should some nice friendly SEAL or DELTA or MARINE RECON team give him an anonymous "flying lesson" from a helicopter at, say, 5,000 feet, and he just disappears like Jimmy Hoffa ?

Answer 1

I thought that Saddam should have been executed but look what has happened, so the chances of Bin Laden being executed are very slim. I also believe that Bin Laden will be seen as a martyr whatever we do, he might even be seen as a martyr already because he is forced to go into hiding. Soooo, my logic says, if we can't avoid the "martyr thing" why don't we go all the way.
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Answer 2

For an answer, look at our friend Saddam. He's still running the show, just in a different way. I would have shot him when I found him. I still say at some point he will be released and go back to what he was doing before the U.S. decided to bother him.
IF Bin Laden is captured, nothing will happen to him either. He'll do exactly what Saddam is doing.

I am sorry if this offends anyone, but when all the eyes were on Lynnie, I think that was her name that her lover had her holding the prisoner on a dog leash and collar, you remember that? Those guys were no different than our soldiers. They had to fight to defend their country, they did not, under any circumstances deserve that treatment. BUT, when they locate Saddam, they should have blown him away while they had the chance. Why didn't they???????

Answer 3

Let's don't get ahead of ourselves. Everybody has the right to a fair trial, even Osama bin Laden. The right to a fair trial, and to confront one's accusers is in the bedrock of our Constitution. Evidence of Osama's guilt has to be presented to a jury by a defense team. The jury gets to decide his guilt or innocence. Then comes the sentencing.

If he's done what we've been told he's done re: 9/11 and working with the Taliban in Afghanistan, then he certainly deserves whatever punishment he gets. But we need not stoop to his level by denying him his day in court.

This is what frustrates me about Saddam Hussein. If his trial was taking place on American soil, a mistrial would have been declared. You can't just change judges willy-nilly and give any defendant a fair trial. You also can't have multiple defense lawyers assassinated, and still call it a fair trial. If it's going to be such a farce, why bother with the trial? Just string him up and get it over with. Saddam is not getting a fair trial.

Don't misunderstand.... If these two souls have done what they've been accused of, then they certainly deserve whatever they get. But if we are to be a civilized people, we need to insist on the justice of a fair trial with the opportunity to bring forth evidence of innocence, and the right to question witnesses. That can't posibly happen if defense attorneys are being lobbed off like flies.

Answer 4

We should extract all the knowledge we can from him, and as much as I would love to excecute him myself, we should reduce him to a prisoner and keep him in a cell for the rest of his days, I will not allow ourselves to give this piece of slime and his followers all they want and turn him into a goddam martyr so people can have pictures of him on their walls and wish him well in the afterlife, we keep him in jail like a common criminal and take away his glory instead of possibly giving him more glory.

Answer 5

I think it should be a process...
1st, guest appearance on Janice Dickinsons Modeling Agency, She can scare the hell out of him
2nd, make hims watch re runs of Cop Rock
3rd, release a herd of pigs into his cell
4th when he is begging for death, grant his wish, prove 72 virgins, just aren't happening, and you do go to hell when you are die with pigs! Martyr or not, WE WIN!!

Answer 6

Hi there, I personally think that he should be executed because he has taken many lives of others and honestly i don't find it fair towards other families that have lost a valuable member or relative.

Answer 7

It scares me how many people forget that people are innocent until proven guilty... Every single one of you are protected by a right to a fair trial, and you're willing to throw it away. Good luck! If you succeed in flushing fair trials down the toilet, the rest of your liberties will follow soon after. Terrorists arent destroying our treasured democratic institutions, we're doing it to ourselves.

Answer 8

I like the flying lesson idea, but it should be from 10,000 feet above the ground. He should NOT be captured and held for trial, where he would mock the proceedings and preach his hate and lust for mass murder. The man is so evil only radical brain surgery would ever cure him.

Answer 9

Beat him consistently everday for the rest of his life. Not enough to kill him. But enough to know that he ruined the world and has created an era of hardship for millions and millions of people. Instead of focusing on AIDS, Cancer, and many other problems, we get to spend our money on defending ourselves instead of helping others even though we are the leading country to help the world. I love the United States. I truly do.

Answer 10

We should prosecute him to the full extent of the law. However he should be treated ethically and fairly. We should not stoop to his level of thinking that torture, intimidation, rape and underhandedness will make it okay. We are the humane ones and should show the world that is exactly the type of behavior that we deplore and refuse to have interjected into our communities.