Microsoft to Donate Computer Classes to Terrorists
I found this story to be pretty amusing:
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to donate more than $300,000 to open computer centers where former paramilitary fighters will receive free training for civilian jobs, the government said Thursday.
Responding to a request from the Columbian government, Microsoft will be donating $234,000 in cash and $77,000 in software to help captured terrorists develop job skills so that they won't return to their usual careers, "crime, forming armed gangs... extortion and drug-trafficking."
The paramilitary group for which these men used to fight is funded primarily by growing and trafficking cocaine.
How would you like to try and teach Microsoft Windows to a convicted, crack-addicted terrorist, who is unfamiliar with any kind of machinery ore electronics more complex than his AK-47?
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YAY!
Wait a minute...
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But you also have to think of it another way... It's a humanitarian effort. They are trying to reskill them with skills that are useful even though they will probably be wasted. It's along the same principal of rehabilitating convicts which I am all for.
There is a line for everything but I believe in second chances (to an extent). These guys are not beyond God's love so why should it be different for us?
Now training them may prove to be interesting but that's still the same with our rehabilitation programs. You win some, you lose some.
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