Round one--going after the law license of torturers

[jonks]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
So we should take legal action against the UN then? And against those who wrote the US Code version? Actually writing a law that deliberately allows torture has got to be a more serious violation then giving an opinion about said law.

Let's see what other laws are vague* enough to allow a crime to be committed...and who wrote them...and who may have given legal opinions about them...

*For various definitions of "vague" at various entity's discretions.

Don't have time to teach you everything about statutory interpretation. But if you read up even a little bit, you'd see how foolish your posts on the topic are.

 

[LTC8K6]

I'm sorry for wasting your time, jonks.

I'll go stand in the corner.

Let me know when it's time to vote, okay?

 

[jackschmittusa]

LTC8K6

You want an example of skirting the law when it is not vague?

The people who wrote the Geneva Convention laws tried very hard to describe every class of people who might be encountered in a combat area, and list the rights and treatment for each class.

GWB announced that he made up a new class called "enemy combatant", and since such a class was not specifically mentioned in the laws and treaties, they had no rights. It made no difference to him that the original intent of the laws and treaties was to insure that all persons had some level of rights and expectations of reasonable treatment. Making up a new term meant that he could abandon the principles of civilized nations.