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| Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for 'War Crimes' Law Prof Says | |
| 2010-04-29 | |
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| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #10 At first read I thought the title was Iowahawk material. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2010-04-29 21:25 |
| #9 ACLU - "we don't make terrorists... we just make terorists happier" |
| Posted by: airandee 2010-04-29 18:02 |
| #8 Good point. Since the targets are illegal combatants they don't get Geneva Convention protections. (Not that it would stop the ACLU, UN or liberal judges...). So this professor can go pound sand. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-29 16:01 |
| #7 Since the targets aren't combatants either.... |
| Posted by: Grimble Untervehr5771 2010-04-29 15:53 |
| #6 ..Law professors can be beaten like rented mules, drone pilot muses... Sorry, but the UCMJ prohibits abusing a public animal, even if a lawyer has acted like a jackass. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-04-29 13:16 |
| #5 ...Law professors can be beaten like rented mules, drone pilot muses... |
| Posted by: Rob06 2010-04-29 12:48 |
| #4 I think it would be funny if a coupla Predators buzzed ACLU headquarters this afternoon. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-29 09:47 |
| #3 Victors make the Law, NS. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-04-29 03:44 |
| #2 He may be legally correct, but he's not right and neither would be the law. This is lawfare, plain and simple, sponsored by the ACLU and CPUSA. You can't have targeted killings and you can't have collateral damage. At this rate we are going to get a war that will make Sherman shudder. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-29 03:34 |
| #1 Loyola Law School professor David Glazier, a former Navy surface warfare officer, said the pilots operating the drones from afar could — in theory — be hauled into court in the countries where the attacks occur. That’s because the CIA’s drone pilots aren’t combatants in a legal sense. “It is my opinion, as well as that of most other law-of-war scholars I know, that those who participate in hostilities without the combatant’s privilege do not violate the law of war by doing so, they simply gain no immunity from domestic laws,” he said. I hate to agree with the bastid, but I suspect he's right. The bloody CIA has no business engaging in USAF combat related activities. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-29 02:37 |