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To: Snowshoe who wrote (80517)	3/8/2003 5:16:05 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Move them to Adak in the Aleutian Islands.> Can't do that, because it's U.S. soil. The moment they set foot on U.S. soil, they acquire rights. And our government is determined to keep them stripped of every right. They have less rights than criminals accused of mass murder, less rights than we gave the Nazis at the Nurenburg trials, less rights than slaves in Virginia in 1850. Less rights (and less chance of freedom) than the dogs at the local Pound. Unfortunately, there is this inevitable dynamic, this downward spiral into savagery, that happens in every guerrilla war. By the time a guerrilla war gets seriously hot, all sides have abandoned any rules of conduct. The distinctions between civilian and combatant, the "ceremony of innocence", gets drowned. Unlimited violence against anybody, becomes the de facto rules of engagement. I suppose it is just Utopian, to think it could happen any other way.