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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (134369)	5/25/2004 7:35:32 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

That forces me to ask; are you really an American? Do you have any appreciation for what it means to live in a free society that GUARANTEES liberty and justice for ALL? Your post screams out a "NO" answer to that question. Oh climb down off your self-righteous and pathetic pulpit... We're at war.. and you don't ARREST enemies belonging to non-state terrorist organizations who have sworn themselves to be at war with you.. You either kill them, or detain them until you decide that either they, or their organization, no longer pose a threat to your national security.. It's not my fault that the current war we're fighting falls into a very ambiguous area related to the Geneva convention.. If you don't like it, then why don't you propose treating such groups as Al-Qaeda as legitimate belligerents?? And why don't you get them to sign the Geneva convention while your at it?? Because the bottom line is that if the people we're fighting are not signatories of the Geneva Convention, they have NO RIGHT to expect to be treated according to its standards. Treating them well is VOLUNTARY. unhchr.ch Article 4 Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention are not protected by it. Nationals of a neutral State who find themselves in the territory of a belligerent State, and nationals of a co-belligerent State, shall not be regarded as protected persons while the State of which they are nationals has normal diplomatic representation in the State in whose hands they are. Hawk

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