Posted on 12/20/2001 9:31:16 AM PST by Lance Romance
You may be on to something here .... how about dozens of boxes ... little teeny-weeny ones!!! Shipped directly to the fleabag. Ha!
Camp Rhino was in the middle of a dried river without a building for miles around. A steel container served as an instant building. If the Pakistanis had used such containers to transport Al Qaeda prisoners, then several Pakistanis would not have been shot and killed with their own guns when the Al Qaeda prisoners they were transporting attacked them a couple of days ago.
deny him legal rights, deny him the right to see a lawyer, deny him the right to see his parents?
John Walker has not been charged with any crime. Legally, therefore, he is still a Prisoner of War. Prisoners of War do not have a right to see or consult with a lawyer and do not have a right to be visited by Mommy and Daddy. Prisoners of War will be interrogated for military information and such information is classified and will not be divulged to a lawyer, the P.O.W.'s family or to the news media.
I mean, is that America?"
No, Ms. Thomas, it is not America and that's the point. It is a war zone outside the United States of America. Miranda rights do not apply to enemy Prisoners of War.
The U.S. Government may decide, for military reasons, never to charge John Walker with a crime. Until such time as he is charged with a crime, he will legally remain an enemy Prisoner of War and will be treated as such.
LOL-- a local talk show host nicknamed him "The Corpse." Sure did fit.
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