Is it acceptable for Gitmo detainees to attack their kidnappers?

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This is an interesting issue.

If they are being falsely imprisoned, then it would seem logical that they have the right, legally and ethically, to fight off their captors. It would also seem to be the case that the guards and doctors who operate at the camp should be considered wanted criminals unless we are now going to argue, like those under the Third Reich, that they are merely following orders.

On edit: I also think that any lawmakers who support the continued existence of the camp should be tried as accomplices and should be charged with negligent homicide for each person who has died or will died while in custody.

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1. And, Godwin's Law without a single reply!

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2. Godwins law is merely a claim of probability, not a condemnation...

Of any reference to Nazis.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Oh, I don't know if I agree with that. Interestingly, however....

From the subject line alone I thought, "perhaps we could compare Gitmo to Auschwitz", but then thought, "No, that would be a bit extreme, not a fair comparison at all."

And then I read the body of your post and thought, "well, you sort of already went there."

I don't happen to think that comparing Gitmo in 2013 and Nazi camps in the early 40's is likely to lead to productive discussion.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

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4. I think you should read what Godwin's law actually means.

You already know what to look up.

It is merely a statement of probability.

[one_voice]

6. Gitmo=Nazi death camps...

did you get that too? Cuz that's what I got.

That was the comparison?

[NYC_SKP]

7. Yup.

And, apparently, anyone who disagrees with the poster, who voted for or works at Gitmo = war criminals.

Like I said, Godwin's Law in one stroke!

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12. Excepting stupidity, no decent human being would work there.

[Rod Walker]

5. Is it acceptable for someone who is falsely imprisoned for (just for instance) embezzlement

to attack his captors? Suppose someone was able to prove without a shadow of a doubt that they were innocent of such a crime. Were they to assault their prison guards in an escape attempt, how sympathetic do you think the courts would be?

[geek tragedy]

8. The answer is no. Not really complicated. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Certainly the 80 or more imprisoned after being found "not chargeable" have the moral

Right to free themselves by any means necessary. That is why they have chosen to starve themselves to death. It is the only means they have to escape.

[Fumesucker]

10. Of course not, violence is never acceptable unless condoned by the political class

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13. Sad but true.

[Monkie]

11. it is US federal law that a war crime resulting in death is a capital offense

so if it was a war crime as defined in the geneva convention or its additional protocols to rendition these people, torture some of them, hold them without charge, and anyone died during this process, then the people responsible could in theory be executed.

i would like to note that i am against the death penalty.

[Downwinder]

14. The Military Code says it is the duty of a POW to resist.

[jberryhill]

15. Acceptable to whom?