Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim, sorry it was unclear from my post whom I was referring to. It was James A. Donald. I did put his message id in a reply-to header. Jim Dixon wrote: Hitler, you mean? Or did you have Milosevic in mind? No what I meant was what IF somehow Bush or Blaire or some other high ranking coalition

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: Your whole post is based on the feeling that we're gonna do what they did to us. There were at least three points made in my post: * The treatment of Saddam seems well within the rules laid down by the Geneva conventions. * On the other hand, he and

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC local news, it's common to

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 17 Dec 2003 at 9:00, Nomen Nescio wrote: No what I meant was what IF somehow Bush or Blaire or some other high ranking coalition politician were captured by Iraq during the war and was treated in the same way. I can only presume you would support Saddam's soldiers checking Bush

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
Truly great. In doing so you have manifested what has been written here about gasing into the abyss and so on. On 17 Dec 2003 at 8:36, Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 12/17/2003 1:00:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: How so? we will cheerfully wade knee deep through blood and the body parts of innocents to destroy those that threaten us, as the crusaders

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Tyler Durden wrote: Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC

Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to such damning reports, the Administration contends that the detainees are dangerous terrorists and thus do not deserve any legal protections, much less liberal sympathies. But after two years of investigations at the camp, the

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? M.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: Saddam was eligible for being shot on sight. That might have been. But he was not, and he is shown and paraded on TV (and don't tell me he wasn't because showing a man in his state, showing how he gets

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael Kalus wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others,

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: If the prisoners at Guantanamo are POWs, why should they be charged with crimes? It is no crime to be an enemy soldier. According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. However, customary practice is to lock POWs up until

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
I'd be real happy about millions of bleeding hearts all over the world jerking their knees in unison, ready to cry a fucking ocean over this unbelievably cruel haircut and medical check-up I'm being given. Fucking tools. A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
You wrote on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:19:43PM -0500: Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Anatoly Vorobey wrote: If I had record like Saddam's on me? Gee, I'd be real happy I wasn't shot on the spot, or maybe cruelly tortured and then shot, the way I'd behaved to people I'd captured. Or maybe torn into pieces by a shrieking mob. Instead of doing any of that, they check my teeth and

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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:41:07PM +, Jim Dixon wrote: You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others, annihilated any who objected, butchered hundreds of thousands of people, dispatched

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:53:56PM -0500, BillyGOTO wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:06:55PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality. I thought it was trivial all along. The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in particular, the Arabic

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:12:55PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:23 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: Damn lucky, to be honest. No I did not omit this little bit. This is not the question. Oh but it is. Ah? Why? Guilt or not guilt is not (supposely) decided when captured but in a court of law. You

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:43 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. I can only interpret this as your saying that the US Government's judgement in this issue is correct,

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:59:59PM -0500, John Kelsey wrote: us. Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but our foreign policy ought to be made based on what is in our long-term best interest (our meaning American citizens); realistically, terrorist attacks are a fairly small part of that

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread BillyGOTO
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the enlightened western

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

2003-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 02:08 PM 12/15/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: ... Well, of course Saddam is going to test positive...he's apparently an actual CLONE. Actually, from what I understand this is the 'original' Saddam (note how much older he seems than the Saddams we've been seeing in the press over the last few

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). Of course it matters. This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 12:34 PM 12/14/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:52 AM 12/13/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: ... One interesting property of the lone warriors is that they can't actually make peace. Good points, but not entirely true. For instance, we could stop the Jihad (tm) (including future Jihads

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:18, Jim Dixon wrote: I spent several years travelling in that part of the world. Well, that just blew your credibility with this crowd. You're supposed to spout off on topics about which you know nothing. Bonus points for reflexive anti-state-ism [1] [2], and in

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tarapia Tapioco
Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story. The propaganda mills were working for

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:10:35AM +0100, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tim May
On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:50 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: This makes me a bit curious. Tell me, is your opinion then that the U.S. has done nothing questionable here? You don't feel that treating a former head of state (regardless of what you happen to think of that person) in this manner and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: Your whole post is based on the feeling that we're gonna do what they did to us. There were at least three points made in my post: * The treatment of Saddam seems well within the rules laid down by the Geneva conventions. * On the other hand, he and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tim, sorry it was unclear from my post whom I was referring to. It was James A. Donald. I did put his message id in a reply-to header. Jim Dixon wrote: Hitler, you mean? Or did you have Milosevic in mind? No what I meant was what IF somehow Bush or Blaire or some other high ranking coalition

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 16 Dec 2003 at 22:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: This makes me a bit curious. Tell me, is your opinion then that the U.S. has done nothing questionable here? You don't feel that treating a former head of state (regardless of what you happen to think of that person) in this manner and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 12/17/2003 1:00:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: How so? we will cheerfully wade knee deep through blood and the body parts of innocents to destroy those that threaten us, as the crusaders

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 17 Dec 2003 at 9:00, Nomen Nescio wrote: No what I meant was what IF somehow Bush or Blaire or some other high ranking coalition politician were captured by Iraq during the war and was treated in the same way. I can only presume you would support Saddam's soldiers checking Bush

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
Truly great. In doing so you have manifested what has been written here about gasing into the abyss and so on. On 17 Dec 2003 at 8:36, Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| -- Jim Dixon [EMAIL

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2003-12-17 Thread J.A. Terranson
Terrorism: The New Aviation Threat http://www.c-spanstore.com/172153.html Since I started loading this video stream I am now watching several hours ago, I no longer remember where I saw the link I clicked on that has allowed me to watch this without buying it :-( But the regular purchase link is

Re: TSA/FBI No-Fly Nexus

2003-12-17 Thread Justin
J.A. Terranson (2003-12-17 06:40Z) wrote: Terrorism: The New Aviation Threat http://www.c-spanstore.com/172153.html Since I started loading this video stream I am now watching several hours ago, I no longer remember where I saw the link I clicked on that has allowed me to watch this

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 21:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/15/2003 9:44:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are specific clauses which refer to not publically humiliating a prisoner. I'm surprised the Agitprop Division didn't show video of

Re: TSA/FBI No-Fly Nexus

2003-12-17 Thread Justin
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2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
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Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Natt writes: You're one-hundred percent correct. I saw that sack of shit Rumsfeld on a press conference this afternoon where he answered the specific question of does parading Saddam around violate the Geneva convention.? Rumsfeld also revealed that the CIA has taken over the Saddam

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 12/15/2003 9:44:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are specific clauses which refer to not publically humiliating a prisoner. I'm surprised the Agitprop Division didn't show video of Saddam taking his first dump while in custody. Saddam is not a

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC local news, it's common to

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael Kalus wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? M.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: Saddam was eligible for being shot on sight. That might have been. But he was not, and he is shown and paraded on TV (and don't tell me he wasn't because showing a man in his state, showing how he gets

Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Jim Dixon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to such damning reports, the Administration contends that the detainees are dangerous terrorists and thus do not deserve any legal protections, much less liberal sympathies. But after two years of investigations at the camp, the

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:41:07PM +, Jim Dixon wrote: You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others, annihilated any who objected, butchered hundreds of thousands of people, dispatched

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:23 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: Damn lucky, to be honest. No I did not omit this little bit. This is not the question. Oh but it is. Ah? Why? Guilt or not guilt is not (supposely) decided when captured but in a court of law. You

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:43 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. I can only interpret this as your saying that the US Government's judgement in this issue is correct,

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: If the prisoners at Guantanamo are POWs, why should they be charged with crimes? It is no crime to be an enemy soldier. According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. However, customary practice is to lock POWs up until

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Anatoly Vorobey wrote: If I had record like Saddam's on me? Gee, I'd be real happy I wasn't shot on the spot, or maybe cruelly tortured and then shot, the way I'd behaved to people I'd captured. Or maybe torn into pieces by a shrieking mob. Instead of doing any of that, they check my teeth and

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 12:34 PM 12/14/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:52 AM 12/13/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: .. One interesting property of the lone warriors is that they can't actually make peace. Good points, but not entirely true. For instance, we could stop the Jihad (tm) (including future Jihads by

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). Of course it matters. This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
You wrote on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:19:43PM -0500: Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread BillyGOTO
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the enlightened western

Re: U.S. in violaton of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:18, Jim Dixon wrote: I spent several years travelling in that part of the world. Well, that just blew your credibility with this crowd. You're supposed to spout off on topics about which you know nothing. Bonus points for reflexive anti-state-ism [1] [2], and in

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:12:55PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:53:56PM -0500, BillyGOTO wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

2003-12-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 02:08 PM 12/15/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: .. Well, of course Saddam is going to test positive...he's apparently an actual CLONE. Actually, from what I understand this is the 'original' Saddam (note how much older he seems than the Saddams we've been seeing in the press over the last few

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
I'd be real happy about millions of bleeding hearts all over the world jerking their knees in unison, ready to cry a fucking ocean over this unbelievably cruel haircut and medical check-up I'm being given. Fucking tools. A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Tyler Durden wrote: Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:06:55PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality. I thought it was trivial all along. The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in particular, the Arabic

Re: Zombie Patriots and other musings

2003-12-17 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:59:59PM -0500, John Kelsey wrote: us. Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but our foreign policy ought to be made based on what is in our long-term best interest (our meaning American citizens); realistically, terrorist attacks are a fairly small part of that

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tarapia Tapioco
Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story. The propaganda mills were working for