How NSA access was built into Windows

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 19 03:45:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:22 +0000, John Bowden wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:59 -0800, Les wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 23:37 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 22:20:23 -0500,
> > >   Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Phil is a United States citizen.  As such he would not have been put in
> > > > Gitmo.  Club Gitmo is reserved for non-US combatants; as such they do
> > > > not fall under the purview of the US Constitution.
> > > 
> > > Bush claims to be able to declare anyone an emeny combatant and then be
> > > able have done pretty whatever he wants to you.
> > > The US constitution protects the rights of noncitizens (at least it used to)
> > > as well as citizens.
> > > 
> > The constitution does not apply to enemy combatants, nor does the
> > constitution nor the Geneva convention apply to non-uniformed enemy
> > combatants.  Currently the situation for these international terrorists
> > is that they are not protected in anyway by any laws.  However there are
> > generally accepted limits of behavior within our country and our
> > military that do apply to how prisoners can be treated.  However the
> > requirements for detention status, duration and or release conditions
> > are currently not fully covered by any law or treaty.  This may be
> > adjudicated soon, but for now that is the status, unless it has changed
> > in the last year or so, according to what I was taught when I served.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Les H
> > 
> Unlawful combatants who are nationals of an enemy power do retain rights
> under the Fourth Geneva Convention so that they must be "treated with
> humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of
> fair and regular trial".

Yeah, *after* the war is over with, I would assert.  It would be helpful
to provide links to your sources. :)


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