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Subject: Re: Hostage Photos

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Naturally

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Date Posted: 09:42:13 05/12/04 Wed
In reply to: Shawn 's message, "Re: Hostage Photos" on 13:36:37 05/11/04 Tue

On a visceral level, I understand your position. It�s much like the internal duel I engage in about the death penalty. On an intellectual plane, I understand that occasionally innocent people are convicted and that it is unequally applied based on race and socio-economic parameters. But when I hear about some heinous crime that has taken place, my impulse is to say, �Fry the bastard(s)!�

However, as a nation we cannot simultaneously go to war and use as justification for that war the fact that we have liberated a people from a ruthless dictator who ignored international law, and then ignore international law ourselves.
And the International law is the Geneva Convention which states,

� To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) Taking of hostages;
(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."

It�s tempting not to care, especially in light of what we saw on the news yesterday. But we are supposed to be the good guys. Had this atrocious act been committed in an American city one citizen on another, it likely wouldn�t have made it on Fox news. Not that I�m minimizing the brutality of this act but we are surrounded by brutality every day yet we tend to ignore it.
I agree with you 100% as far as Kerry goes.

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