They're not spying FOR a nation, but on a broad scale, they're gathering information for the Western world. Gadaffi cut off the internet and phones for a reason, to limit information flow. Allowing reporters in to publicize the situation runs contrary to his interests, so I fully understand his treatment of the reporters.
*gets a headache*
This is the only part of your post that is relevant. Your justification for saying "Serves them right for breaking the law" is that there is small possibility that those journalists paid someone to assault them.
You are mental.
Sorry, but crying over people whose job is to sell sensationalist crap and lie to public is what sounds crazy to me. Next you'll be telling me you really feel sorry for Charlie Sheen because obviously he's had a rough life and that anyone who laughs at soap operas must be mental.
BBC crew beaten, assaulted and subjected to mock executions by oppressive regime vs rich actor who shouts his mouth off on TV.
Yeah, those are equal things to compare.
And again your justification for taking a "Serves them right for breaking the law" stance is that they are journalists.
They're not spying FOR a nation, but on a broad scale, they're gathering information for the Western world. Gadaffi cut off the internet and phones for a reason, to limit information flow. Allowing reporters in to publicize the situation runs contrary to his interests, so I fully understand his treatment of the reporters.
It's librul media, why do you rightwingers care?
It's librul media, why do you rightwingers care?
Because expressing outrage is what conservatives do. I think its a fundamentalist thing. Lots of pointing of fingers and taking of umbrage, shouting and gnashing of teeth. All that John the Baptist kind of behavior.
Riiiiiiight
Because Liberals are all for Journalists being tortured because those Journalists are actually spies.
Nice to know you get your Politics out of the bottom of a Captain Crunch box.
Understanding is not justification. What Gaddafi did was in violation of the Geneva Conventions and an unnecessary, unproductive act of cruelty. His goons tortured the innocent for the lulz. There is no excuse for that.
If limiting information flow was the aim, he could have just had the reporters ejected from the country.
Journalists are protected by the Geneva Conventions moron. Fair game my ass.
They're not spying FOR a nation, but on a broad scale, they're gathering information for the Western world. Gadaffi cut off the internet and phones for a reason, to limit information flow. Allowing reporters in to publicize the situation runs contrary to his interests, so I fully understand his treatment of the reporters.
Sorry to inform you but journalist can and will aid the enemy of the country they are reporting from.
They have free access to travel and do as they please...Noooooo....
Geneva convention be damned.......
You think for a minute that if the United States was invaded that we would allow foreign journalists free reign to do as they please?
We would round the whole lot of them up and send them packing!
In was there are civilian casualties and as a result I see no protection for journalists under the Geneva Convention. They are after all considered to be CIVILIAN!!!---???
Exactly@@!! Gadaffi was treating them as civilians!!
Art 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following
provisions:
(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) taking of hostages;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
(2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.
An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict.
The Parties to the conflict should further endeavour to bring into force, by means of special agreements, all or part of the other provisions of the present Convention.
The application of the preceding provisions shall not affect the legal status of the Parties to the conflict.
Exactly@@!! Gadaffi was treating them as civilians!!
Yes we would send them packing. We wouldn't round them up and torture them Abu Ghraib style with a few upgrades (ie: physical beatings and shooting submachine guns next to their heads). Did you even read the article?
As for the bolded... stop posting. Please. You are a weakling who was just beaten in logical argument and now you're throwing a fit. Go drink some Kool-aid in your time out chair and get back to us when you're ready to act like an adult.
Sorry but you're the idiot! He knows exactly what he's talking about when it comes to the liberal media, especially the BBC. Israel has to deal harshly with the foreign liberal press, especially the BBC as they are obsessed with reporting pro-palestinian propaganda BS all the time.
Stop acting like you know what the Geneva conventions say. You don't and just look like an idiot.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/375?OpenDocument
We should have taken him out a week ago. As we fail I'm sure hundreds of thousands will die due to this thug/terrorist. He still has payback coming for Berlin/Panam among other hit jobs he ordered internationally and the Libyan people gave us perfect excuse. But it's Obama in charge after all which is fail personified.
This is not our war. It's not our problem. If we're going to get involved in another shitstorm of a war, let's at least pick a good one like Iran, Pakistan, North Korea or Mexico.
Fail. Every war has it's merits and demerits. This one has a lot of merit. We could jack his deserved shit with a CBG and get a little street creed back in fundiville. That he has it coming for killing Americans it enough for me and everything else is icing on cake.
Ancient history. Consider that a no-fly zone would require going to war with Libya. We'd have to kill rebels and loyalists in the process. And then people would say that we have a responsibility to Libya since we got involved.
Fuck those people. They can deal with their own problems.