Re: Supreme Court to Review Guantanamo Cases

Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>
:> :
:> :As for prosecuting a "Protected Person", the crime has to be one that
:> :a member of the US forces would be prosecuted for.
:> :
:> :I suspect that US military law needs to ban the planting of car bombs.
:> :
:>
:> Nope. If the target of the act is civilians, there are already more
:> than enough charges to be brought. If the target is military, then
:> you get into the whole 'spy' issue, where they're not displaying
:> recognizable signs and openly under arms...
:>
:
:They may be covered by the 'spy' issue but I do not know of any one
:in Guantanamo Bay being court-martialled for failing to wear uniform.
:

It is that failure that allows them to be tried by military tribunal
rather than a court martial. That failure makes them unlawful
combatants who are not entitled to the full protections of POW status.

How can you people still not get this simple principle after all this
time and all this discussion of it?


--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn
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