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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Britt
from: Phil Payne
date: 2007-06-14 19:40:28
subject: Re: `a landmark victory for the rule of law and a defeat for unchecked

From: "Phil Payne" 

> Are you sure that's what you are saying??  You are either saying that or
you
> are acknowledging that there are TWO applicable systems one for CRIME and
> one for WAR.  Each with different rules and standards for people
apprehended
> and detained.  You can't have it both ways, so is it one system or two
systems?

Of course it's two.

Someone picks up a rifle and starts killing people (e.g., at Kent) and it's
clearly illegal.

Someone picks up an AK47 in Baghdad and tries to kill an invading soldier -
it's clearly a legal act of patriotism.

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