[Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[Tom Hansen]

Roger -

They only way a person becomes a prisoner of war is being apprehended 
during a declared war.  You cannot simply apply the POW tag at a whim when 
it is to your liking.

I do not recall any declared war.  Unless you consider Bush's GWOT (Global 
War On Terror) to be an official sanctioned, declared war, which (for 
obvious reasons) fails the litmus test.

Another thing:  These detainees were never considered to be prisoners of 
war.  If they are, in fact, POWs, President Bush, former Secretary of 
Defense Rumsfeld, and a whole slew of "interrogators" should be brought 
before a military tribunal for crimes against humanity; remember "water 
boarding" among other applied forms of torture clearly delineated in Army 
regulations as violations of the Geneva and Hague Conventions.

This isn't simply my opinion, Roger.  This is straight facts.  If you 
would like, I will spend the next few days outlining these violations, 
specification by specification, and how they clearly violate the 
aforementioned conventions.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> Tom and Liz
> Regardless of the semantics on a declaration of war, If they were 
captured during a
battle, they should be considered prisoners of war. To release them and 
sent them home,
the take home message to our solders is- Take no prisoners.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Tom Ivie the_ivies3 at yahoo.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:24:45 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees�Can Challenge Detention
> 
> > This was the topic of a family discussion this weekend. One argument I 
heard was that
you have to define "war" in the Constitution.  The argument was that the 
Constitution
refers to war between the U.S. and another country, not individuals and 
not groups. Though
I haven't verified this by any means. The family member went on to say 
that the U.S. never
went to war with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is where many of the 
detainees�were captured.
If this is the case, are they really prisoners of war?  
> > 
> > Tom & Liz Ivie
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 6/16/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention
> > To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, "Chasuk"
<chasuk at gmail.com>
> > Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 3:09 PM
> > 
> > Most of these people were captured on the battlefield and a more 
appropriately
> > should be treated as prisoners of war. This is entirety different from 
criminal
> > offenses that occur within the US. No nation that I know of has 
released
> > prisoners of war while the war is in progress. If any of theses 
detainee are US
> > citizens and were aressed within the US, they might legitimately be 
subject to
> > the US judical system.
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:02:36 -0700
> > To: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention
> > 
> > > Chas,
> > >    
> > >   They were not deprived of due process of law. They were tried, and 
found
> > guilty before they are sent and locked up in Gitmo. The reason they 
are not
> > tried in American Civilian Courts is because they are not US Citizens 
and
> > because if they were it would expose US classified information which 
would put
> > US soldiers and possibly civilians at risk. 
> > >    
> > >   Best Regards,
> > >    
> > >   Donovan
> > > 
> > > Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >   On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 18:59, Donovan Arnold
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Maybe we should create an "Adopt a Detainee" program. Those
> > that think they
> > > > are innocent detainees can line up and open their homes to people
> > considered
> > > > to be unfairly detained at Gitmo. If they really believe that these
> > people
> > > > are innocent, and they are released, it would be unfair to send 
them
> > back to
> > > > their home country to be killed, right?
> > > 
> > > I don't have any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the Gitmo
> > > detainees, so I won't be inviting them into my house, thank you.
> > > However, that doesn't mean that I believe they should have been
> > > deprived of the due process of law, which is the real subject here.
> > > 
> > > Chas
> > > 
> > > 
> > >        
> > > 
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