Obama fights ban on indefinite detention of Americans

RT ^ | 07 August, 2012 | Paul J. Richards

[GlockThe Vote]

Outrageous.

FUBO!!!!!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I do not trust the government particularly much either. But my emphasis is always that there must be two points of view: one being how we treat hostile foreigners outside the reach of all but American military power, and a different one for how we treat American citizens in the United States.

America has very explicit rules for how it deals with hostile foreigners. The Geneva Conventions themselves have as their origin the US Civil War General Order 100. Yet even the Geneva Conventions are clear about non-uniformed irregular combatants and their treatment.

And if an American citizen leaves the US and throws their hand in with foreigners hostile to the US, they are committing treason in time of hostilities. They and their hosts are subject, by international law, to military force. And, I might add, to field trial and execution if captured.

And, as far as 16 year old Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki is concerned, he appears to have been collateral damage in an attempt to kill Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate.

So all that does is serve as notice that if you are a harmless, 16-year-old boy, it is unwise to accompany your father to an anarchic part of Yemen in the middle of a civil war, and hang out with major combatant figures.

Because if you get killed, it’s like, bad luck.

[Ratman83]

Our government is as much the enemy as any terrorist or foreign country. If we give them an inch the will and have take many miles. A Citizen is a citizen wether he or not, we cannot allow killings of fellow citizens here or any where.