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

Gary Britt wrote:
> The Bill of Rights IS IRRELEVANT when it comes to enemy combatants captured
> on the battlefield.   As justice Scalia pointed out to some pointy headed EU
> trash in Switzerland recently, Germans brought not to a base OUTSIDE the USA
> but directly to prison camps INSIDE the USA did NOT have rights to any kind
> of trial or hearing in USA courts.  It would be "crazy" to
assert otherwise.
>
> If these few military lawyers brainwashed by the liberal educations they
> received (and who likely became military lawyers because they couldn't cut
> it in the real world) don't like the military acting like the military, they
> should get the hell out of the military and go to work for scraps for some
> public interest legal group or the ACLU.
>
> The Bill of Rights applies to citizens and in a fairly limited context to
> non-citizens present in the country.  It does NOT apply and has NEVER
> applied to prisoners of war and enemy combatants.
>
No but the provisions of the geneva convention do.

Adam

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