From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> We were defining these things in terms of the Geneva Convention context
> George and they were rebels or fighting an internal civil war.  They
> fought against MILITARY targets.  Terrorists attack CIVILIAN
> NON-MILITARY TARGETS.  So you and Adam are quite wrong in trying to
> color every person fighting anything, anywhere, by any means, as a
> terrorist.  Show me where George Washington sent people in to blow
> themselves up on a school bus full of school children or admit you are
> wrong on this.
>

So the USAF & RAF bomber command were terrorists when they targeted
Hamburg, Nagasaki etc?

Adam

> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> Ok well since the US was not independent at the time then any acts
>> committed here were the same as if they were committed in England. So
>> your rebel was a terrorist as were the rest of the founding fathers.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:4676015c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Yes if he was part of the non-state organization carrying out the
>>> acts of war/terrorism against Portugal and working to support more
>>> such acts of war/terrorism.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Geo. wrote:
>>>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:4675abb3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> No Jefferson was a rebel in a civil war for
independence.  To be an
>>>>> illegal enemy combatant he would have needed to go to
Portugal and
>>>>> blow up the main square killing thousands and declare war on
>>>>> Portugal because he didn't like how Portugal treated
somebody else
>>>>> in Europe.
>>>>
>>>> If he had, would that have also then made Washington an illegal
>>>> enemy combatant even if he had remained here? Most of the people in
>>>> gitmo were not in the US when captured.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>

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