jmbg29
You made assertions that were patently false. I cited several documents i.e. The Geneva Convention(s) and our own Constitution. I'm still waiting for you to cite something substantive.
Ex parte Milligan, 71 U. S. 2 (1866): Grew out of military restrictions on civil liberties in the North during the Civil War.
Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1 (1942): President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a military commission to try German saboteurs during World War II.
Cramer v. United States, 325 U. S. 1 (1945): A naturalized citizen was charged with treason for giving aid and comfort to the enemy during World War II.
In re Yama****a, 327 U. S. 1 (1946): A World War II era case involving the command responsibility doctrine in review of the conviction of a Japanese commander in the Philippines by an American military tribunal.
Duncan v. Kahanamoku, 327 U. S. 304 (1946): Concerned with Japanese exclusion, the case considered wartime curtailment of fundamental civil liberties by military authority.
Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U. S. 763 (1950): German nationals were confined in the custody of the United States Army following their conviction by a military commission for engaging in military activity against the United States.
Madsen v. Kinsella, 343 U. S. 341 (1952): The Court ruled that a civilian committing a crime could be prosecuted by a military tribunal.
Those are a list of SCOTUS cases on "enemy combatants. Please find one that deals with something other than spying.
When I said that you were out of your depth, I meant every word of it, and I stand by it.
Where did you recieve your international law degree? Because without it we are both laymen.
I submit that it is you that believe that we are justified in becoming monsters by suggesting that we allow the cowards a way out.
It takes more courage not to fight.
Had the French any honor at all, they would have fought as men in uniform. Instead the rolled over like a Suzuki Samurai.
Moore, Bob, ed. Resistance in Western Europe. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000,.
Liebling, A.J., and E.J. Sheffer. La Republique to Silence: The Story of French Resistance. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946.
Knight, Frida. The French Resistance, 1940-1944. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975.
They can explain better what the resistance fighters did than I can. And rules or no rules killing someone for being a spy is morally wrong.
while it is true that the Taliban et al. don't understand why they shouldn't hide behind children when they open fire, that ignorance on their part does not constitute grounds for an excuse on our part.
Odd that you should say Taliban, In an April 11 2002 report to congress, Jennifer Elsea Legislative Attorney for the American Law Division said that President Bush considers the Taliban fighters to be POWs.
You made assertions that were patently false.
Most of my statements have been about morality and it is impossible for them to be false because they are opinion. You however have been making broad and over reaching statements without attribution on legal matters and saying they are the voice of God.
Your views are your own business, but if you wish to accuse Americans of things that they haven't done, or as yet been found guilty of
I haven't accused anyone of anything. I simply took the position that it is morally wrong to torture and kill. Your opinions of Nietzsche or any other philosopher don't concern me.
And if anyone is using feelings in this it is you. I can understand that you are emotional over the situation but be warned these tatics if used against our enemy will one day be used against Americans by our own government. I don't need a German or Jewish philosopher or a legal book to tell me that, just look at history. I would love to continue this but we are clearly worlds apart and niether is likly to change our minds, but more importnatnly you sir are rude and I feel if I keep writing I will only say somethig I will later regret.
DE,
That is the problem Derek. Who does decide such things.
They do, those that are in power. If Clinton would have thought of it Randy Weaver and probably some radio show hosts would fall in that catagory.
Adieu
