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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Lawyer Backed Terrorists

The preceding article was generated upon the author reading Mark Levin’s Men in Black and the chapter called ‘Al Qaeda Gets a Lawyer’

A highly controversial topic that has recently been in the news off and on is the holding of Prisoners of War (POW) at the U.S. Naval base in Guatanamo, Cuba.  These men were all ‘being held without trial’, but what the public doesn’t realize is that in a time of war, enemy combatants are [by the rules of war] allowed to be held until the end of that said conflict regardless of trial.  This has been happening for centuries, but for some reason, in this war, with this president, people say that it is inexcusable.

Many would think that the majority of those held in Guatanamo are U.S. citizens who are completely innocent in all ways.  The truth of the matter is this, there have only ever been two U.S. citizens detained at Guatanamo.  These two men were both captured while they were in the mist of armed combat AGAINST either U.S. forces, or her allies.  Both were forced to surrender their AK-47 (rifle), and both passed through heavy screening to make sure that they were guilty of insurgency. 

The rest of the men being held in Cuba were also captured in the way mentioned before.  Granted, some may well be innocent, but the threat that they just might return to fight is much greater than the threat of leaving them in a secure base where they are fed, and provided for.

It is these people, who literally took up arms, and fought (possibly even killed) American soldiers, with who we are bestowing the ’right’ to sue the U.S. government in an American court of law, using American tax money.  In all wars previous to this, and there have been quite a few of them, no enemy soldier has ever been given the right to contend his capture in the courts of his captor nation.