Posted on 02/02/2002 1:26:45 PM PST by vannrox
... Common sense would say that if there is indeed a war against terrorism, then the prisoners are prisoners of that war, unless Washington is prepared to assert that its war against terrorism is in some way not a war ...Washington has already asserted that this is a different kind of war. Pay attention, buttheads.
That's because these scum are less than human.
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Yeah well, the BIG difference is the United States won't put up with it.
If the law on this point has changed because of committee meetings of egghead ivory tower bleeding heart intellectuals, then any change was a mistake.
Now the problem with all this is that a truly lawless nation could just imprison whoever they want and call the prisoners terrorists. Any legal system depends on certain minimum standards of good faith by the officialdom. Liek my criminal procedure professor said, none of the Constitutional law on criminal procedure is worth anything if the police decide to lie.
True - but ask anyone where they'd feel better taken care of - a max. security lockup in the States or Gitmo, and they'll pick Gitmo every time.
How many Americans have been killed overseas since the birth of modern Middle Eastern Terrorism? I say a lot more than most countries and yet we still go overseas and take that risk. We are not, and have never been, under any illusions of invincibility as regards terrorist attack on American soil; at least not the folks who pick up a newspaper and keep track of world events.
As the Scottish say, "Ye with us or ye again us"; choose wisely Europeans.
Kill them all. Oh, that statement may be dehumanizing, but you and I both know it;s the olay way the west will every be safe from these barbarous jihadi pigs.
Okay, continue your discussion.
By international convention, those conducting war that are not in uniform are not legal combatants, and are therefore not protected under the conventions.
This Pfaff is just another lefty looney. Hey, putz, did you ever hear of a metaphor? You're a journalist, aren't you? Oh, yeah, I forgot. We'd better start classifying low-level street dealers as POW's because, after all, imbecile there's a War on Drugs. And, let's remember to put a big fat POW on those big, fat, welfare moms because, in case you forgot, your old liberal buddy, LBJ declared a War on Poverty.You'd better hope they don't expand Bush's education bill and declare a War on Stupidity because there will be an orange jumpsuit with your name on it, Pfaff. And it will say PFOW.
The full consensus is that the detainees are treated humanely, and well within the spirit of the Geneva Convention for POW's, even though they clearly are not and cannot be so defined.
But this dolt is still yammering about the one photo taken while the first bunch were being processed in. As if security precautions during travel were the status quo.
At this late date he should know better; and if he does, he should dry up and start acting like an adult instead of just one more piece of eurotrash.
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