[GOPcapitalist]

Torture and execution without adjudicated cause are never lawful. Not under the civil law. Not under the military law. Not under the constitution. Not under the laws of civilized nations. Both happen, but in no circumstance are they or could they ever be lawful as their very nature is outside the law. I have already documented to you that both execution without adjudicated cause and torture were sanctioned, indeed ordered, by the highest levels of the yankee command of Milroy. To date you meet this evil with approval, condonement, and apathy.

[capitan_refugio]

"Torture and execution without adjudicated cause are never lawful. Not under the civil law. Not under the military law. Not under the constitution. Not under the laws of civilized nations."

Today, we choose not to use such techniques. You apply today's standards to the 1860's. You need to judge the 1860's by the standards of those days. The Articles of War have some interesting admonitions in them, well worth reading. But it must be remembered that war is very much an exercise in natural right. To establish a "set of rules" governing the belligerents is a wholly artificial construction. When you get right down to the basics, war is two guys duking it out until one concedes or is killed. There are no consequences for the victor. There is no justice for the loser. It is the law of the jungle.