Comments on: This just in

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:01:10 +0000

Even if we treat them as EPWs, we are allowed to detain them until the cessation of hostilities.

And how exactly do you define that in the current war?

Tim — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:18:46 +0000

Capturing power and geneva conventions (under which terrorists and illegal combatants have no protection).

It would be perfectly legal just to shoot the captured terrorists without trial. That we don’t is a sign of our mercy, not of their rights.

GMontag — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:28:41 +0000

Brian, that would be the capturing power.

Piece out.

Brian A — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:18:14 +0000

And who is it that determines who is an “illegal combatant”?

GMontag — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:08:23 +0000

If thwy are “illegal combatants” then they have no protection under any law.

Walter E. Wallis — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:06:45 +0000

The incentive to take prisoners is being drastically reduced.