Bonus ancient Reddit thread:

I prefer a more direct approach…

He still likes them. He just used to too.

Toad: “That’s ok Frog, you’re drinking my bathwater…”

Aged like an Ebola victim:

“Don’t be evil.”

Prison food.

According to who? The CIA and FBI agents that beat a confession out of him? The press that presumed him guilty the moment they chose to notice him? We have no idea who this guy actually is other than what they claim, because it’s never come out in a public court of law.

If there’s evidence to convict him, convict him and make him suffer the penalty of the law. Otherwise you’re destroying a man on the basis of hearsay, and undermining your own justice system in the process.

I’ve yet to visit a city more civil than a forest.

The United States justice system is based on the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. He has not been proven guilty. As such he is innocent in the eyes of the law.

Keeping him behind bars might well have prevented him from planning additional attacks or even being elevated to political prominence.

If you imprison people based on what they might do, you no longer have a justice system. All you have is a lawless police state.

Schrama cited an “unbroken continuation of the CIA’s psychological conditioning and severe coercion”

Torture. The word you’re looking for is torture. The CIA & FBI tortured this man for over twenty years.

Oh, and they did it illegally, because:

FBI agents intentionally failed to tell Mohammed that he had a right to be silent and to consult a lawyer.

So they tortured this man for over twenty years while denying him the right to counsel or even to be silent, then expected the judge to accept his confession as legitimate.

Whether or not you have sympathy for Mohammed, how he’s been treated is an absolute shit-show. Remember, this man has yet to be convicted of a crime, and the crime they’re going after him for, heinous though it may be, happened 25 years ago.

Here’s the rub - if they have the evidence to convict, then they don’t need the confession. Yet they found the need to waterboard this man for 20+ years to obtain it. This means that the other evidence they have against him is too flimsy to secure a conviction on its own.

And that means they’ve been torturing a technically innocent man for three decades to save face.

This is a really wholesome comic until you realize who’s showing up the next day…

Take a look.

It’s in a book.

With weed and rainbows.

TIL - thanks!

In terms of my post, I was interested in the Khajit specifically, as I think the extensive specifics written of both their culture and their variant morphology would make for some incredible storytelling and plotlines. It’s one thing to meet the parents when your girlfriend is Caitian… quite another if she’s Khajit.

Mom could be looking like this:

…while Dad is looking at you like:

Haven’t seen those, so wouldn’t know… I’m more interested to see what the Federation would do with the Khajit as they exit in Elder Scrolls - all of the different morphologies - from the giant Senche-Tigers to the tiny Alfiq.

I’d also really dig seeing a throwdown between a Klingon and a Pahmar-raht:

Clearly a result of the mapmakers just throwing up their hands and saying Phuket.