On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:37:36AM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > Well, I don't actually think that holding people who were fighting > against the United States prisoner _is_ wrong.
Exactly my point. How you can justify holding anyone without a fair trial and access to a lawyer is incredible. > differ on this issue. But it seems to me that the first (Ruby > Ridge, if anyone doesn't know what we are obliquely discussing) - > assassinating American citizens - is considerably worse than the > second - holding _non-Americans_ prisoner. Yet, oddly enough, we > get hysterical condemnations of the second, and not a mention of the > first. Let's just say that I think that's noticeable. I'd say some incredible discrimination is noticable. All of them are human. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
