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very good, articulate post
posted by
calmcantey75
on June 6, 2005 at 4:58 PM
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UH,
Even prisoners of war have rights, it's in the Geneva Convention. It's not to protect the enemy, it's to protect our own POWs. If we don't abide by it, then neither does anyone else and we have no room to protest. It's one thing to kill someone in the heat of battle, another to torture, degrade and humiliate while in captivity, as in Abu Ghraib.
Guantanamo is extrajudicial territory: not US soil, therefore the prisoenrs do not have the rights of Americans, or any other state, but it does raise questions of precedents. Already the laxity of the abuses are being used to justify invasiveness into American citizens lives: surveillance, torture, etc. in the name of "wartime" privilege by the Administration.
posted by
Blanche.
on June 6, 2005 at 4:53 PM
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