Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

"Vince Brannigan" <firelaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:xEOWj.12319$lj.11699@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 03:44:40 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
>> <findme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> "Colin Campbell" <activated_95b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (remove underscore)>
wrote...
>>>
>>>> What's the big deal?
>>>
>>> You were talking about the government using their removal of Habeas
>>> Corpus to intern those who speak out against them. I could give a ****
>>> less about Sami al-Haj (generally speaking)... but I do care about
what
>>> few rights that we have left as American citizens.
>>
>> Since when do persons captured on the battlefield need habeas corpus?
>>
>> Maybe you should read up on what the Geneva Conventions says about
>> this.
>
> The Great Writ  extends to anyone held by the government
>
> Vince

I was just passing by and note that US military people have never been 
protected by the Geneva Convention.  Not the Germans, not the Japanese,
nor 
the North Koreans, nor the North Vietnamese, nor the Viet Cong, nor
whatever 
Islamic factions in the Middle East have ever followed the Geneva 
Conventions.

I, myself, had a Geneva Convention card, and captured Viet Cong, and
offered 
them water, and a cigarette (Well, Ho Chi Minth smoked Salems) to get them

on our side.  Our USAF FAC was shot down, and he couldn't march, so they 
summarily executed him, not in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and
no 
one said anything.

My only wish is that people who hold the Geneva Convention dear, put a US 
flag on their left arm and go into combat, and see how much it protects 
them.