by Jill Edwards

Created on: May 05, 2009   Last Updated: May 09, 2009

Someone is going to kill your innocent, six year old child in two days. Why? Does it matter, is there any reason worthy? You don't know who is going to kill your child, but your next door neighbor knows who is going to do it, and when; he is also a part of the planning. No crime has yet been committed, so you have no proof to give to the police, and your neighbor isn't willing to tell the police anything. What would you be willing to do to stop your child from being murdered?

Would you blast loud hard rock music all night so that your neighbor couldn't sleep until they agreed to tell you their plan? Or would that be too cruel? Would you dunk your neighbors head up and down in a bath tub full of water until he told you the plan? No, that would just not be right, or would it? What about handcuffing him, blind folding him and letting a dog bark at him to try to intimidate him into telling you who is planning on killing your small child? Is this really torture? If you say yes, then you don't know what torture is.

I say the real torture is the parent who has to grieve for the rest of their life, wondering what their child would have grown up to be. What kind of life would their child have had? Or, a child that has to grow up without ever knowing their parents, missing out on that love, being robbed of what their life would have been. There is nothing that I wouldn't do to find and stop someone from hurting my child. I expect the government and military to do whatever is necessary to protect, not only my child, but yours as well. Does anyone who wants to murder your child deserve your sympathy to their delicate feelings? Why should they have any sympathy or rights if they are going to kill someone else's child, or family? Is yours the only one that matters?

So many people have said, "Why didn't the government know about the attacks of 9/11 beforehand and do something to stop it? Where was our intelligence? We should have known about a plan this big." These are the same people who say that keeping Al Queda prisoners awake for long periods of time and questioning them about impending attacks is cruel torture. What should we do, give these conspirators of Terrorism a cookie and ask them nicely to please tell us what their next plan of attack is and hope they tell us?

I do not believe for one second that there is any reason that a terrorist, or collaborator of a terrorist organization, has any rights. When one lives their life only to hurt innocent people, then they should be prepared to hurt as well. What the liberal media tells us is "torture" today is absurd. Making prisoner's of war watch CNN all day could be considered torture, maybe we should go that route to acquire our information. Prisoner's would probably tell us everything that we wanted to know after only a few hours. It's pretty obvious to me, and I'm sure to you, that anyone who is crying out for the rights of a terrorist hasn't put themselves in the shoes of a victim of terrorisms family. Maybe we should consider their rights, and the right's of the victim's that will come if we aren't proactive when it comes to this war of Terror.

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