----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Treatment Of Prisoners (was RE: Tragedy in Israel)
> 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 understand what you mean Doug, but everyone of these guys is at least guilty of pointing guns at American soldiers (not all that much of a "crime" by itself). So its not likely that any of them are totally innocent. Anyone could be arrested anywhere in the world for being to close to a crime (wrong place wrong time) and receive a milder version of the same. xponent rob
