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echo: barktopus
to: Don Hills
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-10-15 09:04:50
subject: Re: It`s a bit ....ing late for that!

From: Adam Flinton 

Don Hills wrote:

> In article ,
> Randall Parker
 wrote:
>
>>Also, you seem to be missing the point on why we treat the Gitmo
>>prisoners as we do: We don't want to be killed by terrorists. The
>>international law crowd have nothing to offer us for our own safety.
>>Keeping terrorists isolated and interrogating them for useful
>>information both serve to make us more secure.
>
>
> No, the point is:
> Are they terrorists? All of them? Some of them? Which ones? What checks and
> balances are in place to prevent, as far as practical, making the wrong
> decision? If they aren't terrorists, they're political prisoners. Treating
> them as you are doing is the stock-in-trade of an oppressive dictatorship,
> not an enlightened democracy.
>

It's worse that that. It's straight forward international kidnapping.
Imagine if US people came into NZ & next thing a whole load of NZ'ers
woke up in Cuba.....

Adam

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