----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Vic Cinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > John Stroebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ah yes, we kidnap...then murder. > > > > > > Vic...think we should charge them first, or just 'Off With Their > > Heads..."? did you read what I wrote? put them to trial and execute any found > > guilty. maker. if you dont they will come back to haunt you in the decades > > to come. just as hamas has been haunting israel. > > > > Vic > > Two options both legal by the geniva conventions. > > 1) Delclare them to be PWs and then they can be held until the war on terror is over which will be in about 75 to 100 years from now and they then could not be tried in a civilian court, as per the treaty. > > 2) Keep their status as unlawful combatants defined as per Article 4 by omission. Article 4 explicitly defines everyone covered by the conventions and a reading of that article points up the fact that the prisoners at GITMO are not covered as they do not display a "fixed distinctive sign recognisable at a distance". Then they can be held indefinately and treated in any way the capturing party decides to. > > BWS >
Question for you... Considering that the US uses several thousand mercenaries (er, "private security contractors") in Iraq and Afghanistan, how are they covered by the Geneva Convention? PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
