At 09:22 PM 3/1/2003 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>http://ww.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1108&mode=thread&order=0
>
>According to a recent Fox News report, U.S. leaders are considering
>prosecuting for war crimes any U.S. citizen who travels to Iraq to be a
>human shield in an effort to protect the Iraqi people. Yes, the United
>States now intends to make it a crime to protect innocent people from
>being killed. In other words, the United States' right to invade Iraq
>and kill its citizenry supersedes Iraqi civilians' right to life.
>
>In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially
>and quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed
>Patriot Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this
>law, U.S. citizens acting as human shields in Iraq could be stripped of
>their U.S. citizenship, denied their Constitutional rights, be held
>indefinitely, and tried secretly as "enemy combatants" based on the
>allegedly treasonous "intent" of their actions as "aiding and abetting
>the enemy." The underlying intent of their actions would be judged
>solely on the interpretation of U.S. leaders caught in an overly
>simplistic, dichotomous worldview, where U.S. leaders represent all that
>is righteous, morally superior and good, and any others who believe and
>behave differently, everything that is unrighteous, morally bankrupt and
>evil.
I agree with all of these policy decisions. Indeed, isn't it ironic that
this news is being published in the "*Yellow* Times?" I almost wish that
I had made it up myself.... :)
Those idiots who are travelling to Iraq to be human shields *are*
committing war crimes, by intentionally placing themselves in a war zone.
Indeed, by aiding and abetting a war criminal, Saddam Hussein, they are not
only accessories to war crimes, but there are in fact, enemy combatants.
The US Consitution gives every American the right to be stupid - but it
also specifies that they have the right to pay the price for their own
stupidity. If any of those numbnuts are lucky enough to get out of Iraq
alive, they should be grateful for getting to spend the rest of their lives
in US prison.
JDG
P.S. Did anybody see the pictures of the accomodations these "human
shields" are being furnished with by the Iraqi government? I have only
one word for these clowns that accept plush accomodations like this from a
government that is currently starving its impovershed people while building
double-digit Presidential Palces: Hypocrites.
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