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To: LindyBill who wrote (32221)	6/12/2002 7:20:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<The proposition is that he is a soldier for the Al Queda, and that they are at war/terrorist with us.> Well, Al Capone was at war/terrorist with you, but he wasn't an enemy combatant [though he perhaps had Sicilian links]. It's funny watching the rules and definitions fail to fit traditional norms. The WAT has got some likely outcomes which freedom-loving people would not find ideal. Rule of law, freedom to do anything which doesn't create a victim and so on should not be given up lightly. Habeas Corpus is a fundamental tenet of law. Hang on, Tenet is some Bush side-kick isn't he? Maybe he's taken over where the laws used to live. What a merry melange this is. Mqurice