[lit-ideas] Re: 3 SUICIDES AT GUANTANAMO
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:58:11 -0400
Eric, you are a Stalinist, there's no question. If you knew anything about
Stalin's techniques, you'd see that that's what you're advocating (secret
executions, extorted confessions, informants, and on and on). Do you
realize that Saddam and most likely Milosevic, followed Stalin? Truly, we
become what we hate. So much better to deal with our emotional issues by
dealing with them, instead of chasing after totalitarian values that offer
an illusion of safety and a reality of horror.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/12/2006 12:26:09 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: 3 SUICIDES AT GUANTANAMO
>
> Robert: Roosevelt, who clearly wanted them dead, insisted on
> trial by a military tribunal.
>
> Eric: And why did FDR clearly want them dead? Because we
> were at war. Just as we are at war today.
>
> Robert: As things stand now, one who is designated an enemy
> combatant, can be tried only by a 'special tribunal,' in
> which various rules of evidence are suspended, and there is
> no right of habeus corpus.
>
> Eric: The correct term is "unlawful enemy combatant," which
> I omitted in my first post and corrected in my second. An
> "enemy combatant" per se is subject to Geneva Convention rules.
>
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