In a message dated 1/3/07 10:22:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which rules did we dump in our previous wars (that we won)? I just answered this one. Let's start with no constitutional rights for prisoners of wars. They had what the Geneva accord granted them if their country was signatory to it, no more. Censorship, during WWII, possibly and probably other wars as well. FBI watched very closely German/ Americans and Japanese/Americans as well as interning the Japanese. The ACLU would have had a fit. Call it racial or ethnic profiling if you like. Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, he suspended the Maryland legislature to keep them from seceding. Not to mention prior to the civil war every state had the right to secede if they chose to. Lincoln put and end to that. Southern prisoners were literally starved to death by the tens of thousands and given inadequate shelter from the elements and shot for sport.< Somehow, with all the rights that have been suspended during war times through out our history, we always end up with more rights and a better country when those conflicts are over.
