Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 15, 2004 08:10 AM
There are at least 2 high profile cases of an American citizen not being granted due process, being denied the priviledge of habeus corpus and until very recently were denied their rights to a lawyer.
The Geneva conventions are not being applied, as the US government has claimed they are not relevant since they claim these people are not prisoners of war. They created their own classification for them to avoid any accountability. If they were prisoners of war, they could not be legally interrogated under the Geneva Convention (odd how this doesn't seem to stop them from interrogating Saddam even though they have made him an official prisoner of war). The US government also actively engages in torture which is also illegal (mental, physical, and pharmacological).
This comment is now pretty much just as irrelevant as your original response was to the original post. I didn't exactly see newforge doing anything at all to support the Saudi government. They merely supplied information and tried to not to get into the issues that you obviously thought they were supporting. I, and I doubt many other people on here, don't appreciate your trying to confuse reporting information with supporting what that information represents.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 15, 2004 08:10 AMThe Geneva conventions are not being applied, as the US government has claimed they are not relevant since they claim these people are not prisoners of war. They created their own classification for them to avoid any accountability. If they were prisoners of war, they could not be legally interrogated under the Geneva Convention (odd how this doesn't seem to stop them from interrogating Saddam even though they have made him an official prisoner of war). The US government also actively engages in torture which is also illegal (mental, physical, and pharmacological).
This comment is now pretty much just as irrelevant as your original response was to the original post. I didn't exactly see newforge doing anything at all to support the Saudi government. They merely supplied information and tried to not to get into the issues that you obviously thought they were supporting. I, and I doubt many other people on here, don't appreciate your trying to confuse reporting information with supporting what that information represents.
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