POLITICS 11/30/2017 01:42 pm ET Updated Nov 30, 2017 Federal Judge Slams Trump Administration’s ‘Ci

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Individual rights tend to fall by the wayside during wars.

    Some of these things though create concerning precedents. If it could happen to one person, what really is there, in terms of legal justification, to stop it from happening to someone else under very different circumstances? Do we just have to trust the discretion of the officials administering the law? I don't know, I'd like a little more legal safeguard written into the law.

    If someone in another country that's being occupied resists U.S. forces, and they're suspected of being with ISIL, what should we do with them?

    Maybe they can't know for sure whether the captured suspect was really a member of ISIL or not.
     
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    Oh wow, a stand up comic. You must not have been able to find a Garfield cartoon to make your misguided point.
     
  3. Eleuthera

    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    No, I oppose both torture and rape. I oppose any kind of assault against an innocent individual, and I do agree with the presumption of innocence.

    As to Article 5 of GC, the one I just looked up on Google did not contain any language suggestive at all of the language you quote above. Maybe you could provide a link to your version of Article 5. The one I found on a quick look was only about 2 sentences long, and did not contain your language. Maybe you meant another Article?
     
  4. Max Rockatansky

    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My understanding is that only Nazis and those who accuse the US of being a Nazi-like dictatorship call us "Amerika". I disagree with both opinions.
     
  5. PatriotNews

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    I have no problem with summary executions of terrorists no matter what their country of origin.
     
  6. Max Rockatansky

    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Agreed. The key is due process. When we empower our government to do as it pleases regardless of the Constitution, we are inviting trouble.
     
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    I am guilty of repeating information which may not have been completely true. I was of the opinion that terrorists had no rights whatsoever based on what I've heard, without investigating it for myself. I think in the past an unlawful combatant, did not have rights, and was subject to execution on capture.



    The same article posted above does in fact go into better detail of the rights of unlawful combatants and I may be in fact wrong regarding the rights of terrorists or unlawful combatants. If that being the case is true, I still believe that they shouldn't be given any rights whatsoever, American or otherwise.
     
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    I have no problem kill them in the act or when confronted if need be due to threat like any other American, but after caught, I do not support he DP, lwop is the harsher punishment imo
     
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  9. Bob0627

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    Who is "we"? The US Army, CIA and other government contractors (e.g. Blackwater) did torture and perhaps the CIA still does. This is a historical fact. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture is quite clear on that and we also know that torture and murder of innocent people were committed at Abu Ghraib.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
    https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pu...dy-on-cia-detention-and-interrogation-program
     
  10. PatriotNews

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    I don't think what a few reservists did at Abu Ghraib were sponsored or endorsed by the US or any agency named. This is why there were punished. Still I have no sympathy for anyone who is a terrorist and suffers any injustice. Don't care. Don't become a terrorist if you are worried about suffering injustice. Stay home and become a productive member of the "religion of peace".
     
  11. Bob0627

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    Actually all German speaking people spell it as Amerika. If the Constitution is being violated with impunity by all 3 branches of the US government as exemplified in the article in the first post (and many other examples), this US government is then no different than any other banana republic/fascist dictatorship.
     
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    There is evidence that Donald Rumsfeld consented to the mistreatment of Abu Ghraib detainees. The Senate Intelligence Committee on torture found that the CIA torture program was conducted with the consent of the Bush administration. The only CIA operative that was ever punished with respect to the CIA's rendition and torture program was John Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the CIA's rendition and torture program.

    I take the same position, however that has nothing to do with the point of this thread. It isn't about your or my non sympathy for terrorists. By the same token those who engage in torture are terrorists and all who direct and/or take part should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, with all due process protections granted of course as mandated by the Constitution.
     
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  13. PatriotNews

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    Anyone here care to hold terrorists accountable? Is there any terrorist who is currently undergoing crimes against humanity or war crimes? Not that I'm aware of.
     
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    You quoted me. Don't you read what you quote?



    No one in the Bush, Obama or Trump administration or the CIA is currently being tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity. And these war crimes are still ongoing daily, since 9/11.
     
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    your right, we should not torture, but it has been used
     
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    If that solution came to pass, Washington DC and Tel Aviv would become depopulated.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    One star for you for admitting your error.
     
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    How very amusing.

    That would be you - which is why you butchered my post, obviously.
     
  19. Draco

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    Uh, what?

    You just said "that might be true.."

    Well if it IS true then the Bill of Rights doesn't matter. When his citizenship is lost through treasonous acts, he is no longer a citizen and no longer benefits from our laws. He is now an enemy combatant.
     
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    The people we fight against? No they are not bound by the Constitution and if this guy became an enemy combatant he has thrown away his citizenship (as you just agreed might be true) and then he no longer is bound to it nor does he benefit from it.

    When it come to military action we/they/whoever is bound by the Geneva Convention, not the Constitution.

    Please stop with the snide remarks, just debate like a grown up.
     
  21. Bob0627

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    The Bill of Rights ALWAYS matters, otherwise it's as worthless as if it doesn't exist.

    The Bill of Rights IS a primary part of our laws. No one is guilty of anything unless charged, tried by a valid court of law and convicted of a crime. The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to ensure that everyone receives all due process protections, otherwise anyone can be declared treasonous merely by accusation.

    He is an American citizen and it is the primary duty and mandate of the US military who detain him to protect and defend his constitutionally protected rights.They took an Oath to do just that.

    Don't twist my words, I was obviously strictly talking about the US military.

    The US military is bound by the Constitution AND the Geneva Convention AND all treaties the US is a signatory to, there are no exceptions (except in immediate defense of life and property) and all treaties are part of the Constitution via the Supremacy Clause. Others (non-Americans) are bound or not bound by whatever they see fit, that is not the issue here.

    You didn't and still don't know what the discussion is about so I thought I would enlighten you. I see it didn't help. I don't debate, I discuss, at times with immature posters. You can do as you wish.
     
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  22. Max Rockatansky

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    Yes, it is amusing.

    LOL, dude, you’re the one who is upset at me for not responding to your entire diatribe point-for-point.
     
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    Well, what if the "Americans" turn the ISIS terrorist prisoner over to the Iraqi's. Would that satisfy you and the ACLU? The terrorist was in fact captured in battle on Iraqi soil.
     
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    So give them some ammo and fresh guns so that they can shoot back at you in combat.
     
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    GWB? The man with the most expensive barbecue Germany ever had seen - and the most idiotic barbarbecue the Iraq ever had seen? The founder of ISIS - god bless Syria - and the ignorer of the North-Korean steps to nuclear weapons? And you think Mr. president Trump will top this anti-politics? The man who sleeps in all questions of saving nature and life of our common planet Earth?



     
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