Catty
I know you didn't contend they should be applied to every person world wide. I was just using an extreme for a science fiction idea.
I still think applying the full constitution to Prisoners of War is wrong.
Enemy soldiers aren't automatically criminals.
It is not a crime to hate America and declare war on the USA nor is being a enemy warrior a crime.
(It is a crime for a US citizen to be a enemy warrior.)
Terrorism is a crime under the geneva convention and I believe those are the ones being tried as criminals.
The others can be prisoners of war and yet guilty of no crime, it does not follow that we should release those prisoners or given them the benefit of our constitutional guided civilian court system.
Just as most of the German prisoners of war held here in the 1940's were not criminals letting them go would have been wrong and foolish.
Applying our constitution and civilian law to modern POW's and letting most of them go because they weren't criminals under our civilian law would be just as wrong.
I hate to say it, but a enemy soldier shooting at American troops or ambushing military convoys doesn't make that soldier a terrorist.
(Something the reporters seem to forget.)
What makes most of the radical moslems terrorist and criminals is not the attacks on the military, but the attacks on civilians and non-combatants such as unarmed women and children.
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Just after reading your post on the globalization and spreading of laws I came across a security article about how the Chinese firewall Censored or blocked websites from Chinese citizens.
The Chinese Censor programs seem to be using methods that "punishes" the offending source that one of thier citizens tried to access for material that is illegal in china.
When a Chinese citizen tries to access something that is flagged by thier Censoring software it floods the citizen's computer and the offending source with reset commands.
This is a denial of service attack on the source and is illegal in the US and many other nations. There has been some talk of charging China with a crime.
howard melton
God bless
I know you didn't contend they should be applied to every person world wide. I was just using an extreme for a science fiction idea.
I still think applying the full constitution to Prisoners of War is wrong.
Enemy soldiers aren't automatically criminals.
It is not a crime to hate America and declare war on the USA nor is being a enemy warrior a crime.
(It is a crime for a US citizen to be a enemy warrior.)
Terrorism is a crime under the geneva convention and I believe those are the ones being tried as criminals.
The others can be prisoners of war and yet guilty of no crime, it does not follow that we should release those prisoners or given them the benefit of our constitutional guided civilian court system.
Just as most of the German prisoners of war held here in the 1940's were not criminals letting them go would have been wrong and foolish.
Applying our constitution and civilian law to modern POW's and letting most of them go because they weren't criminals under our civilian law would be just as wrong.
I hate to say it, but a enemy soldier shooting at American troops or ambushing military convoys doesn't make that soldier a terrorist.
(Something the reporters seem to forget.)
What makes most of the radical moslems terrorist and criminals is not the attacks on the military, but the attacks on civilians and non-combatants such as unarmed women and children.
-----
Just after reading your post on the globalization and spreading of laws I came across a security article about how the Chinese firewall Censored or blocked websites from Chinese citizens.
The Chinese Censor programs seem to be using methods that "punishes" the offending source that one of thier citizens tried to access for material that is illegal in china.
When a Chinese citizen tries to access something that is flagged by thier Censoring software it floods the citizen's computer and the offending source with reset commands.
This is a denial of service attack on the source and is illegal in the US and many other nations. There has been some talk of charging China with a crime.
howard melton
God bless