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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:33 AM
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I am outraged to think people think this is even plausible. Geneva is what applies here.



Enamy combatants, captured in a foriegn field of battle do not enjoy the constitutional rights of the capturing country, There is no legal infrastrarcure in place, there is no due process. nor should there be. You attack an ememy convoy, you get caught, you go to their prison camp. You stay there until the hostilities cease. Are people actually expecting POW to have a regaular trial? To see a lawyer?

NO. They get three square meals a day, they get exercise. they get to practice their religion. They get regular visits from the Internation Red Cross/Red Crescent. THey get to write home, They do not get our consitutional rights! They are not citizens, they are not residents, they did not attack us on US soil. What would be he basis for the US Consitutiion applying here?



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