John / Billybob
"Compare that with the execution of Major John Andre by the Americans in 1980."
1980?
Oops...we aren't all so dumb. I don't think Maj. Andre was executed in 1980....might want to change that! :)
But if it happened in 1980 didn't Jimmy Carter consider pardoning him first?
"Journalists" don't have much more than a high school education on the subject of History, even then it's a combined class called "Social Studies",and it's only worth one credit.
Even if they knew these things, and probably some of them do, they would ignore them as it does not advance their desired action line.
Whoa - two hunnert years on Death Row? Andre must have had a heckuva lawyer.
I have been trying to tell folks that were bitching about our treament of captured terrorists for years now that these jerks were lucky we didn't do with them what we had the right to do, a bullet in the back of the head at the side of the road where they were captured. This article makes it clear that IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENEVA CONVENTIONS people found under arms, on a battlefield, not in uniform or part of an organized military with a clear chain of command and authorized by a responsible government can be summarily executed where captured.
Rather continues to become even dumber, might be the proper parlance, don't you think?
My tag line, from that antiwar song of the sixties becomes even more and more prophetic, IMO.
America ... Where are you now?">
And most importantly, Where are you going?
The slide continues, headlong into oblivion!
The only reason this won't be news to most freepers is because of the yeoman work you've done here dissemination this information.
So, it is true?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/553341/posts
ONE MUST believe the US CONSTITUTION is a SUICIDE PACT to bestow RIGHTS on ILLEGAL COMBATANTS!!
Infuriating!!
Good work John.
Well said. If you run for office, I will surely contribute. We need people like you in there.