should we kick him out or let him stay

[tectak]

If a person is in my country illegally, I think I would have a perfect right to deport him unless I had a compelling reason, to me, to grant him asylum. That's something like saying a guy breaks into your house, but before he can kill you and your family and take you possessions, some people who don't like him and wish to do him harm, show up and demand you release him to them. Yet, you have evidently made some senseless rule that says you have to let him stay in your house indefinitely?
I don't see how this is an issue of Liberty when he is illegally in the country. This is not a dissident that wrote nasty poems about his home country and that's why they want to kill him. Regardless, asylum has always been on a case by case basis, as for obvious reasons it has to be. But to say this person is owed anything but a ticket home is ridicules. Maybe the problem is in the terminology, so replace dissident with "psychopathic murderer". Someone being labeled a dissident should not obviate the suspension of reason.

"The problem with executive actions is that they can
be used against peaceful dissidents as well as violent ones."

This is an erroneous argument. It presupposes that if any leeway is allowed then abuses will occur and so one must have black and white laws that allow injustices as great as those you are trying to prevent, while also unnecessarily risking your citizens safety by releasing a psychopath into the community. And please, don't try and say that he wasn't. He worked for Ben Laden, and his goal was to see as many infidels killed as possible, and ultimately bring down the country. He obviously had intent to do harm. Just because he was caught before he could do so is no justification for treating him nicely. Believe me I am no supporter of government, as I have been on the wrong end of abuse of power before, but that by no means make me want to take leave of my senses and open my arms to welcome a person like this.


Dale

Nice use of rhythm and a fine example if comItment verse. A little work required in the structure and perhaps on the obscure ryhme scheme....but overall a good solid read
Not sure about the lack of clear stanzas but anything that rhymes with
Abu hanza gets my vote!
Best,tectak