First you have to remember that these guys all got picked up on the battle grounds... armed. They are enimy combatants not Random J. Citizen picked up off the streets of some Amish convent. POWs are able to be held until the war is over, without being charged. Its in the international rules somewhere.
Activists have desided that these guys need trial and circus' now. Thus filed a court case.
I live in Massachusetts thus live in bizzarro Sci-Fi land for this kind of thing. The best example is the stupidity of the gay marriage issue once it hit the State's high court. Ignoring the actual issue and my personal feelings over it, one thing that annoys me is that I can't vote/complain about the actions of people around me on this issue... the voters got by-passed in a should-be and probably is legally impossible and stupid way.
The Court in question declared that Mass should have gay marriage and that the legislature much pass a law in 180 days to legalize gay marrage or else... and they did. This means the Court granted itself the right to demand the state legislature pass laws because the courts said so. If you have complaints take it up with the State's highest court.
Yes, this makes no rational sense.
Thus I live in a state that the state courts annexed the state legislature, because it granted itself the ability with no legal precident I know of. The state legislature is refusing to vote on whether or not they'll let us peon voters vote on it. They need two sessions in a row to vote yes and don't want them voting on whether or not we peons get to vote on it to or not to effect their elections.
Anyway enough about the Divine black robes in my state... The desion I've heard is that the 5 SC that voted for this ruling aren't even in agreeement on why the voted that way. I've heard that the 100 page desion of the majority is somewhere between 1.5% and 15% in agreement with the offical agreement document.
I refuse to read over a hundred pages of legalese garble just to get more specific... I can't even mock them in a review section of their websight. Either way the Rules of War don't say those POWs need to be charged... they are Prisoners of War not common criminals. You hold them so they can't be reinforcements for the other guy.
This trial stuff is for WAR CRIMINALS... these currently wanted trials are to shut up whiners anyway (in WWII this would have meant 3 million German troops getting indivisual trials lasting days or weeks each)... not for internation law reasons. This is all about a case with O'sama's bodyguard/personal driver... Not Random J. Bystander.
You want Sci-Fi, write about a world where they did do trials for all the German POWs the Allies had. They'd have to invent time travel just to have the defendants live long enough for trials. Since laws change they all get trials under laws decades or centuries in the future this would cause weirdness... or a guy time traveling to assassinate the jerks that made the US 80% covered in court houses.
Activists have desided that these guys need trial and circus' now. Thus filed a court case.
I live in Massachusetts thus live in bizzarro Sci-Fi land for this kind of thing. The best example is the stupidity of the gay marriage issue once it hit the State's high court. Ignoring the actual issue and my personal feelings over it, one thing that annoys me is that I can't vote/complain about the actions of people around me on this issue... the voters got by-passed in a should-be and probably is legally impossible and stupid way.
The Court in question declared that Mass should have gay marriage and that the legislature much pass a law in 180 days to legalize gay marrage or else... and they did. This means the Court granted itself the right to demand the state legislature pass laws because the courts said so. If you have complaints take it up with the State's highest court.
Yes, this makes no rational sense.
Thus I live in a state that the state courts annexed the state legislature, because it granted itself the ability with no legal precident I know of. The state legislature is refusing to vote on whether or not they'll let us peon voters vote on it. They need two sessions in a row to vote yes and don't want them voting on whether or not we peons get to vote on it to or not to effect their elections.
Anyway enough about the Divine black robes in my state... The desion I've heard is that the 5 SC that voted for this ruling aren't even in agreeement on why the voted that way. I've heard that the 100 page desion of the majority is somewhere between 1.5% and 15% in agreement with the offical agreement document.
I refuse to read over a hundred pages of legalese garble just to get more specific... I can't even mock them in a review section of their websight. Either way the Rules of War don't say those POWs need to be charged... they are Prisoners of War not common criminals. You hold them so they can't be reinforcements for the other guy.
This trial stuff is for WAR CRIMINALS... these currently wanted trials are to shut up whiners anyway (in WWII this would have meant 3 million German troops getting indivisual trials lasting days or weeks each)... not for internation law reasons. This is all about a case with O'sama's bodyguard/personal driver... Not Random J. Bystander.
You want Sci-Fi, write about a world where they did do trials for all the German POWs the Allies had. They'd have to invent time travel just to have the defendants live long enough for trials. Since laws change they all get trials under laws decades or centuries in the future this would cause weirdness... or a guy time traveling to assassinate the jerks that made the US 80% covered in court houses.