Originally posted by jd140
Your not afraid of terrorists? Neither were the victims of the first WTC bombing, the attack on the USS Cole and the family and victims of the destruction of the WTC on 9/11.
Just because you "aint" scared of them doesn't mean that they wouldn't harm you or your loved ones the first chance they get. I for one haven't given up any rights since the war has started. Have you? If so which ones? Enemy combatents lost their rights when they either helped a terroist or shot a single bullet at a soldier.
If you want Equal treatment then I guess we should start decapitating and murdering all those charged with being an enemy combatant. We should put a video of someone reading the charges and then carry out the execution. All things being EQUAL they did it to us.
You mentioned the Geneva Convention. Do you know what it is and why it was put in place? Why complain that we aren't strictly abiding by it if our enemy is doing so much worse to us? I don't hear anything about the way we are treated when captured.
It is a two way street and many people including you want to make it a one way street, where we are the only ones that should be held to it.
So what if they are being held for a long time. They are being fed, clothed and given shelter. Whereas our men and women are being held, starved and murdered on the internet.
Try and change that then complain to us that these poor souls are being held away from their families illegally.
Replace the word terrorist with Government in your first two paragraphs, I agree just because you aren't afraid of them doesn't mean you're not in danger.
Next you lost all the Rights we all did, just because you haven't been arrested and not charged yet doesn't mean it can;t happen. The government did away with Habeus Corpus. They are wiretapping everyone, reading everyone's mail, telling people who can go somewhere or not etc. etc. Look at it this way not all Germans were put in camps and killed, but under the law anyone could be and many were, but some weren't... Does that mean it couldn't have happened to all of them? Padilla, an American was arrested in America and held without charges or an attorney for over 4 years, if they can do that to ONE American they can do it to any... You lost your Rights like everyone elese you just don't know it, like everyone else.
Equal treatment is about American Law and what we CLAIM to be, we claim the Moral high ground but do worse than our enemy. Actions speak much louder than words my friend and we're not acting Moral, Lawful, or IMO Human in our actions with Gitmo.
So I can arrest you or your child and no charge them with any crime and hold them for years just as long as I "Shelter, Feed and clothe them"? That argument is lacking in any rational thinking way!!!
I don't want no dangerous terrorist released, CHARGE THEM. If you can not prove they are terrorists RELEASE THEM. If the police were allowed to arrest and hold anyone they "THOUGHT" was committing or gonna commit a crime we would need more jails. But this nation already jails more of it's own than any other nation on the planet. We got ourselves into this mess by taking these people out of the countries they were captured in. Afghani Courts and Rules could have allowed for them to do this there, but here in America we have Rights and Laws and Duties and once we lower ourselves to the level of the so called terrorists, we have become them..
