Maes Posted October 25, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11621232 The first thing that sprang to mind are those South African racist apartheid jokes, where a black man that got hit by an Afrikaner's automobile with his bicycle, smashed through the windshield and then was stabbed by the angry owner, got life sentence on three charges: damage to property, endangerment of life and illegal possession of a weapon. OK, the circumstances are not the same, but still, giving this amount of publicity and pompousness to such a "trial" could only possibly be part of a psyop. Next time, unleash an army of Burberry-clad Sherlock Holmes' smoking pipes on the unsuspecting illegal combatants! 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted October 25, 2010 The notion of an illegal combatant is pretty ridiculous. They are a combatant or they are not. Kill them or don't. Don't waste time on trials where you make up weird crap. America is stupid. And the rest of the west is stupid for going along with this "rules of war" bullshit. Anything that can hurt the enemy's ability to conduct war should always be fair game, and that's basically anything, including firebombing their resort hotels and shopping malls, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, etc. And this poor idiot gets charged for killing a soldier! I suppose maybe the difference is we discovered morale-destroying techniques don't seem to work at all. They just make life suck when the war is done. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 25, 2010 It would be awesome if he told off the judges "Why don't you get my ballsack to make a tobacco bag out of it, too?" like some ELAS combatants said to the military judges that condemned them "to death, thrice", during the Greek Civil War. 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted October 25, 2010 LOL Things like that are why trials should always be on TV. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted October 25, 2010 Maes said:It would be awesome if he told off the judges "Why don't you get my ballsack to make a tobacco bag out of it, too?" like some ELAS combatants said to the military judges that condemned them "to death, thrice", during the Greek Civil War. They could afford the insolence, after all they knew they'd do only one third of the sentence. 0 Share this post Link to post
deathbringer Posted October 31, 2010 Wait, so he was a soldier in one army who threw a grenade in a soldier of his enemy's army who were attacking him... and is being charged with "violating the rules of war?" I probably support the stamping out of the Taliban and Al Queda far more than most people on here but i think this is bullshit. Are they gonna track down a German flak gun operator and charge him with the same thing? 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted October 31, 2010 Aliotroph? said:LOL Things like that are why trials should always be on TV. And now back to YOU THE JURY! 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted October 31, 2010 Wow, what the shit? Yeah, that's pretty dumb. Especially at this time with all these leaks of American atrocities during our stupid wars. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 31, 2010 If I recall correctly, some relatives of 9/11 victims had actually filed "lawsuits" against the "perpetrators" in the heat of the events. Well, seems they got their own, finally. Still, I can't picture US Soldiers escorting court summoners in in the plains of Afghanistan with subpoenas and court orders in hand ;-) Let alone that they should probably be delivered somewhere in Saudi Arabia, but that's another can of worms. 0 Share this post Link to post