--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Because we are _at war_. We didn't give German POWs trials. We didn't give North Korean POWs trials. We were _at war_. These people were captured _on the battlefield_. Because they weren't declared combatants, they actually have _fewer_ rights than POWs. > > 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/ Yet the American government is supposed to worry about the rights of _Americans_ first. That's its job. I suppose that you, Erik, would have nice public trials on all of these guys, with lawyers, and published transcripts, and maybe the names and faces of CIA informants published? That's what a full trial would require, after all. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
