Re: Ineresting Editorial

["Sue Hovey" <suehovey@moscow.com>]

I don't imagine anyone wants them treated with kit (or kid, either) gloves.
But one might consider their rights under the Geneva Convention, why we are
not according them POW status, and what sort of response our enemies (and
friends, too) will have when our enemies capture our own soldiers and our
friends are called upon to support us.  As we are judged by the nations in
this world, what we do in Guantanamo should not serve to negate our status
as a democratic nation with laws and procedures that are fair.  The
treatment of American prisoners of war during the 1940s, while inhumane;  is
not the issue here, any more than was our treatment of Native tribes during
the 1800s.

I do not know whether the treatment of the people detained in Guantanamo is
inhumane or not, but some of our Government's responses to the questions
people are asking, does make me wonder.  What you really hope to accomplish
by the last few lines in your message, I simply cannot imagine.

Sue Hovey
-----Original Message-----
From: thansen@moscow.com <thansen@moscow.com>
To: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Ineresting Editorial


>Greetings Visionaires -
>
>I find it absolutely appalling that somebody actually feels we should treat
>prisoners of war with kit gloves.  My father was a POW in Germany during
WW2.
>His daily ration consisted of two slices of black bread and a pint of
water.
>
>I will not even begin to discuss treatment of American POWs imprisoned in
>the "Hanoi Hilton" during Vietnam.
>
>If somebody actually feels that these prisoners are being treated
inhumanely,
>please contact your congressman and volunteer your abode for the
"safekeeping"
>of these "unfortunates".
>
>Take care,
>
>Tom Hansen
>
>> Archie,
>>
>>      What would you suggest as an alternative to the way in which the
>> suspects are being detained at this time?  I don't believe that allowing
>> them to bond out on their own recognizance would prove to be a wise
>> move.  What about keeping them at the Walt Disney Hotel in Florida?  That
>> could be considered torture by some.  I feel sure that any conditions
they
>> are subjected to would beat the heck out of the way you were treated if
>> you were ever imprisoned under their control.
>>
>> Clint Payton
>> email: tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Archie wrote:
>>
>> > They may be criminals, maybe not. That's the whole issue.  Just be
cause
>they were taken
>into
>> > custody doesn't mean much.  It could be you, and will be if you don't
doubt
>it.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "P C" <PhilCooper@webtv.net>
>> > To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:36 PM
>> > Subject: Ineresting Editorial
>> >
>> >
>> > > Crying Over Ear-muffed Terrorists
>> > >
>> > > "The bleeding-heart liberals wringing their hands over the treatment
of
>> > > terrorists in Guantanamo should listen to firefighter Chuck Downey.
'I'd
>> > > like these people who are so worried about these murderers to have
>> > > witnessed firefighters searching for their brothers at the World
Trade
>> > > Center rubble, and pulling out pieces of people who were their
friends.'
>> > > Chuck's dad, Deputy Chief Ray Downey, was the most decorated
firefighter
>> > > in the country. He's still buried in that rubble. And the so-called
>> > > human-rights organizations, along with the knee-jerk anti-American
>> > > 'intellectuals' in Europe, are crying their eyes out about how some
of
>> > > the world's worst criminals spend their days in a sunny corner of
Cuba."
>> > > - Columnist Steve Dunleavy, New York Post, 1/22/02
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
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