NP FWD: Keyser Soze would know what to do

[no fun]

Am I reading this right?  Am I just unsophiticated and missing some irony?
"Too bad W isn't  smarter. He might think of a way around the
Constitution."?  I recall something the other day on CNN about the White
House press secretary telling Bill Mahr (Politcally Incorrect) and the rest
of the media they had better "watch what it says these days". No dissent,
kids.  Ditch the Constitution seriously and you start ruling by decree.
Other countries in the 30s tried to solve their problems extra
constitutionally.  You didn't exactly hear it here first either, meine
freunds...


 Don't quite
> know which amendment they would thow in your path to strike down a
> conviction for a felony (punishable by death no less) based on the
> circumstance of family relationship but feel in my gut the bastards would
> find one. Too bad W isn't  smarter. He might think of a way around the
> Constitution. Reminds me (though there's really no valid reason or
> comparison) that back in the 30s the country was in even more dire
straights
> than it is today. FDR had a number of ideas for remedying the problems but
> many were thought to be unconstitutional . So FDR tried to "pack" the
> Surpreme Court with more as well as more pliable justices. Didn't get away
> with it exactly. But ways were found.
>
>         P.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henry Mu" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
> To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:43 PM
> Subject: NP FWD: Keyser Soze would know what to do
>
>
> > If you saw "Usual Suspects," then you know that Keyser Soze is a
> > legendary badass, e.g. "And then he showed these men of will what will
> > really is." When Soze's family is brutalized, he kills them, their
> > attackers (all except one) and then seeks out and kills the attacker's
> > families and friends.
> >
> > Everybody is wondering about the new suicide terrorist profile that
> > includes older, educated men with families; how can they do it? We need
> > to make sure that their families aren't benefiting, that "life
> > insurance" benefits aren't being paid by terrorist organizations to
> > their families. If that doesn't work; take out the friends and families
> > of the hijackers. If that doesn't work, take out the people that helped
> > the hijackers and THEIR families and friends. Not many would-be
> > terrorists would have the stomach to do what they do if they knew that
> > there would be dire consequences for their immediate families rather
> > than just a general war against the country that harbors the
> > organization that trained them.
> >
> > Harsh? Terrible? Absolutely! But I hope that this is our plan; history
> > and finger-pointing aside, there would be less loss on both sides than
> > any alternative plan that I can think of. What do you think?
>