Discussion for article #231879
If there’s a bright side in this horrible event, it’s seeing all the varied and very French haute couture municipal employee uniforms…
its strikes me that here in the u.s. we spend trillions of dollars on nsa, cia, and dhs (boondoggle), but every time something happens the gov’t blames the crime on some idiot that was radicalized in Syria or yemen. my question to our crack reporters - how the heck does gov’t allow individuals to visit these areas and not come back without a 24hr tracker. stop wasting money spying on innocent americans and start tracking the people who should be tracked.
I’m wondering if, instead of imprisoning the would be terrorists we collectively decide on a different fate for them? Apparently one Couachi brother was radicalized in prison by an imam who was imprisoned for terrorism; he was re-arrested, after he got of jail, for a plot to spring the radical imam, traveled to Yemen, etc. etc. etc. This made him a target of on again off again surveillance.
How about depriving such men of at least one civil right for each conviction, and banishment for traveling to train in order to attack the country they return to?
Why should they take advantage of freedoms the rest of us enjoy in order to deprive us of those freedoms?
Banishment might be the answer: turn them into 'men/women without a country" …