Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2001 16:30 schrieb Mike Lorrey:
> They made our country a
> combat zone by their attack on civilian targets with hijacked airliners,
> since airliners could be used to attack ANY target here in the US.
Now, who exactly is "they"? Don't we first have to find out, before we can
actually speak about "members of their group"?
What about this Oklahoma lunatic, for example. Who was "they" in that case?
Every white person? Every white christian person? Every person of his home
town or state?
Let's say tomorrow they put you in a detention camp. Maybe you wear the
wrong beard or they got the wrong address, whatever. Would it be okay for
you, to be deprived of every chance to inform your family, speak to a
lawyer, tell your boss, try to clear the misunderstanding?
BTW, the Geneva convention was made for "regular" wars, where the parties
can be clearly identified. I haven't seen detention camps for suspected
Mafia members yet.
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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