You convicted them of being trained to fly an airplane into a building. John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 08:28 AM 1/13/02 -0800 Doug wrote: > >>I've thought about it a bit and read about it a bit and I don't >>think that anything I've heard about constitutes human rights abuses >>but I've got a serious problem with John's post below. >> >>Do we or don't we believe in the principal of innocent until proven >>guilty? It's not the kind of thing we can apply selectively, is it? >> John, and apparently many others have, by making statements like >>these, pronounced all of these detainees guilty without even the >>benefit of their military tribunal. >> > > I can find nothing in my statements that presumes them guilty without a trial. > You convicted them of being trained to fly an airplane into a building. You have no way of knowing if any of them have received said training. If you had said that they had the potential to carry out a suicide attack I wouldn't have taken issue with what you said. I think semantics _are_ important here, however piddling they might be. > I do believe, however, that US officials would be very foolish, however, to > treat these prisoners as anything other than potential suicide bombers > during the lead-up to trial. That's my point, and I'm sticking by it. > I agree. That's why I said that nothing I have seen to date constitutes human rights abuses. -- Doug email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zo.com/~brighto Irreverence is the champion of liberty. Mark Twain - Notebook, 1888
