Incommunicado and Guantanamo

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Tom Brosz — 5/16/2004 6:54:31 PM (archived)

I can think of a dozen reasons why one would not allow outside communications with POWs or enemy combatants, none of them having to do with abuse.

I don't recall POWs--under the Geneva Convention--in ANY war--being allowed either legal representation or unrestricted personal contact with the outside world.

The Red Cross has inspected and visted POW camps for a long time. Including Guantanamo.

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It's all in the name - Nick - 5/15/2004 3:02:17 PM
- I hear there's a war on. - Tom Brosz - 5/15/2004 3:14:20 PM
  - And that's the problem with black-and-white thinking. - Bowser - 5/16/2004 2:02:17 AM
    - So, is holding someone without access to a lawyer also "torture" now? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/16/2004 7:48:01 AM
      - Given the nature, habits and practices of this administration, - Bowser - 5/16/2004 1:34:00 PM
        
        Incommunicado and Guantanamo - Tom Brosz - 5/16/2004 6:54:31 PM
        
        Well, Guantanamo, too. - Bowser - 5/16/2004 8:05:47 PM
        
        There aren't any Americans who have disappeared into night, fog, or the Twilight Zone. - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2004 1:27:07 AM
        
        Prove it! Why else do they insist on the power? - Bowser - 5/17/2004 4:10:43 PM
        
        I don't have to. Any more than I have to "prove" there is no life on Mars. That isn't how reason and logic work. - Tom Brosz - 5/17/2004 5:36:56 PM
  - Didn't we use POWs in forced labor during WWII? - Lee - 5/15/2004 8:03:59 PM
  - funny tom. - Nick - 5/15/2004 3:33:05 PM

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