Reply #33: That's what the Neocons say. [View All]

[The Stranger]

They say that there is a war, and so they can kill (or murder, if they're wrong) without establishing guilt, but then when it comes to "the enemy" they've captured, suddenly they say it really isn't a real war after all. These are not soldiers, supposedly, but some new-fangled, manufactured category of "combatant." So they put them in cages and torture them.

Then there is the issue of whether this is a war, or some new kind of Neo-Nazi-Con "war." A real war is declared by the Congress, and that was done that way to prevent the Executive from dragging the nation into unnecessary wars and declaring any dissent to be treason. It is also to prevent "secret" wars that are not only never declared, but are never ending.

That is why the only legal way out is to return to enforcing the criminal law. Despite its difficulties in respecting due process, it is the only way the Republic isn't destroyed from within by the Neo-Nazi-Con movement.