09-03-2009, 11:28 PM
Damien Lloyd Wrote:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/convent49_en.htm
(b) Article 2 of Protocol No 6 to the ECHR:
"A State may make provision in its law for the death penalty in respect of acts
committed in time of war or of imminent threat of war; such penalty shall be applied[/align]
only in the instances laid down in the law and in accordance with its provisions…"
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Damien - thank you.
So, it seems to come down due to a state's interpretation of "time of war or of imminent threat of war".
Unfortunately, that has to be viewed in the context of the Bush regime's decision to create, post-9/11, a new class of "enemy combatant" to enable it to avoid the Geneva Convention.
All They need is to appoint an entirely pliant and unscrupulous Attorny General and legal protection becomes irrelevant.
Ho hum.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war