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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
P.S. To open up a whole 'nother can of worms -- do you believe tht there are any legal limits on what our government could do to the prisoners in Gitmo? (i.e Would it be legally acceptable to flay them alive, or to dissolve them in acid?)
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I'm with the smart bird up above here. U.S. citizens on U.S. soil? Sure, or where will that line get drawn before I'm on the wrong side of it.
But captured by the military on a foreign battle field while not wearing a uniform or representing an internationally recognized government? I'd
hope that the military asked for a showing, like "did sgt. smith capture this guy at Tora Bora" or something as light, but objective and recordable, as that. If the answer is yes, then I don't see a legal basis for an objection to skinning them alive. Except maybe some of those human rights treaties we sometimes sign that, I think, say that "all people are entitled to human rights" and not just "citizens of signatory countries are entitled to human rights while in the hands of other signatory countries or their representatives".
I'm all about keeping our word.
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