--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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.
Nope. You've never read the damned things have you? The signatories are expected to treat EVRYONE as though they wre signatories unless the other side violates them. 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. > The Civil War was considered particulary viscious.
