11-16-2006, 02:18 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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U.S. man sues Rumsfeld for Iraq jail time
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/ande...oper.360/blog/
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Argh! I really hate our current administration. I think Rumsfeld, Rove, Bush, et al should be shoved in solitary for 53 days so they can see why it's inhumane!
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11-16-2006, 03:43 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Can you really do that? I mean, say you're a software programmer working for Microsoft and you produced a crappy program for a company. That company knows it's your fault that it sucks and sues you for it, would that work? How about if you retire and the company sues you, would that work as well?
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11-16-2006, 03:57 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2006, 09:26 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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I don't think that a crappy program and inhumane detention are quite on the same level. Also, part of it is intent. If you are a crappy programmer, you'll get fired for writing crappy code. If you are an evil madman, you should be punished for those actions as well.
feelgood, I know that wasn't a troll, but it also wasn't really an apples to apples comparison.
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11-17-2006, 12:43 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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I'm glad he's gone, although it opens the military to more scrutiny now for their actions, but this suit has about 0% of actually succeeding. US civilians detained by the US military while in combat situations don't exactly have the same rights as they do here.
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11-17-2006, 01:12 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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I'm curious where, in US Code, a US citizen can be held by US authority without due process or civil liberties assured by the Consitution or other bodies of US law if:
a) not withint the borders of the United States proper, and b) not a member of the US Military.
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11-17-2006, 02:54 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2006, 03:09 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2006, 03:20 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2006, 04:36 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Why is it that political figures are only answerable to the governments that protect them? Does it really have to take war crimes in the same scope of genocide in order for a world court to charge political and military personel with hainus crimes? In other words: are we answerable to anyone?
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11-17-2006, 05:45 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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Why the hell did he go to Iraq to film a documentary in the middle of the war? Something just doesn't sound right to me...
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11-17-2006, 05:52 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2006, 06:03 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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I thought that you could sue individual people in the government, but not the government itself, so long as you could prove that it was an inappropriate and unsanctioned action by the official that resulted in the violation of law/rights? I really haven't researched this one very much because I've never yet decided I wanted to sue anyone in the government.
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