I am getting very hot under the collar at the BBC's insistence on calling them 'fighters'. They are no such thing. They
have simply tormented, tortured and murdered unarmed, bound men.
I don't want them to be tried here. They will use our courts to spend at least two years boasting and crowing about their exploits, safe in the knowledge that their life sentences will equate to about eight years apiece, probably less after an army of Guardianista luvvies adopt them as a cause célèbre. (would be even worse should they stand trial at The Hague).
I'd rather see them tried where they will be facing execution. Actually, I'd rather see them summarily strung up and save the bother of a trial and yes, it does mean they have dragged me down to their level. Fúck justice, I want retribution.
Don't be ridiclules c. I did once whip up a lynch mob outside of a podiatrist's house.
Well I might have known you would side with the terrorists S.
Anyway, presumptions of innocence and fair trials cannot be afforded to men who wear handkerchiefs on their heads. it's insanitary. A decent chap keeps his hankie in his pocket.
More to the point, innocent until proven guilty relates to British citizens who make themselves subject to British law. These jokers went off to another country, declared themselves citizens of the Islamic state and thus enemies of the British crown. By their own lights they consider themselves at war, so are now defeated, non-uniformed combatants whom the Kurds would be well within their rights to shoot out of hand.
Frankly, I can't believe nobody in MI6 had a quiet word with the chaps on the ground and suggested that if these gobshïtes were discreetly strung up, we'd be more than happy to cop a blind 'un.