From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 16:41:58 MDT
In a message dated 8/13/02 12:16:33, mail@HarveyNewstrom.com writes:
>We want American POWs treated well under the Geneva convention, but
>insist that our prisoners are exempt from those rules.
Originally requested, then backed down on.
>We want other
>nations subject to the World Court and their soldiers tried for
>atrocities, but insist that our soldiers be exempt.
Actually we were insisting UN soldiers be exempt.
>We insist that
>criminals be extradited to the US for trial, but won't extradite our
>citizens to other countries for trial.
I have certainly heard of US citizens being extradited.
>We want all wars officially
>declared and for nations to cooperate with war efforts, but insist that
>our war does not need to be declared by congress and we won't cooperate
>with other nations.
Since when has the US objected to undeclared war? 1941?
>We want our borders to be sacrosanct, but insist
>that we be allowed to infiltrate other countries and assassinate our
>enemies without notifying the country.
Currently we're only doing that in Afghanistan - with their
government's permission. I'll agree dumping
missles about is a bad thing, but, again, not in this round.
>We demand that our citizens
>receive basic rights to council and trial, and public disclosure both in
>our country and abroad, but we deny those same rights to citizens of
>other countries. We demand that evidence against our citizens be made
>public and that the accused has a right to cross-examine any of it, but
>we insist that our evidence is secret and the accused have no right to
>know of their charges.
The one thing I did disagree with.
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