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    Quote Originally Posted by Soulforged
    Wrong Redleg. Every country can use some theory or the other to proove jurisdiction on criminal matter. One of those theories is the one of nationality, thus if the victim or the author was of spanish nationality the spanish law can intervein, is all a matter of international struggle, but they've jurisdiction.
    I guess you missed the link to the Spanish International law review concerning such a matter that I posted after the comment you quoted along with the statement that I learned something today.

    Already addressed and corrected myself - but thanks anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
    Already addressed and corrected myself - but thanks anyway.
    My pleasure...A gift to you in return of so many past corrections.
    As said above, this is a good argument against international courts.
    No it isn't. And in fact I only know one country that disrespects the International Court (when all the others abide to it wonderful results are achieved), obviously the old USA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
    Our system is just fine, thank you. We don't need a bunch of socialist Europeans who--quite honestly--can't seem to tell up from down and left from right at times, telling us how to do things.
    That's you saying it...I hope that some day nationalities dissapear as all the ideas of superior being fall too...And is socialist supposed to be some kind of insult or diminishment?
    I don't like to go nationalist on you like this, but it takes a very wierd american to like the idea of international courts.
    Don't take me wrong, I never hoped any american to say the contrary. You've your way I've mine.
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    Socialism is a faux-pas in the US, as I understand it. By the way, "disrespect" isn't a verb.

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    disrespect

    n 1: an expression of lack of respect [syn: discourtesy] 2: a disrespectful mental attitude [ant: respect] 3: a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous [syn: contempt] v 1: show a lack of respect for [ant: respect] 2: have little or no respect for; hold in contempt [syn: disesteem] [ant: respect]
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    State the source, please? I was always taught that it wasn't.

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    An embedded reporter was with the US unit and she back up their version. They were under fire and thought it was coming from that building.

    They did not know it was the Palestine hotel. Do Europeans honestly believe US forces would want to kill a Spanish cameraman? Oh, maybe I could believe they were aiming for Peter Arnett and missed?

    If this is how Europeans feel, then I can't wait till they send every last French soldier who shot at civilians (oh, they claim some were armed) in a crowd in Cote D'Ivoire back there for trial and punishment. Also, this was witnessed by Swiss residents in the hotel and there is video.

    What? You won't send those guys to Ivory Coast for trial? Why not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NeonGod
    State the source, please? I was always taught that it wasn't.
    Verbs are actions and feelings.

    You can be disrespectul to someone (the action) and/or you can feel disrespect for a person.

    I disrespect Nazis. That is a legitmate sentence and all sentences have a verb... verbs are to sentences what vowels are to words. So which is the verb?
    I or disrespect or Nazis?
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    Quote Originally Posted by NeonGod
    State the source, please? I was always taught that it wasn't.
    Until about 1990, you would have been correct. The verb form of the word crept into general usage following its adoption/broad use by the quote/unquote "hip-hop" subculture. So you may well have been taught that it was improper usage by a "purist" only to have mass culture supercede this.

    If you want a language where no such changes occur, try a dead one like Latin. English is still alive and changing, quod erat demonstratum.
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    http://www.rehumanize.us/journalists.html

    i referenced this with the intent to demonstrate that reporters killed by US troops (direct or indirect) was low, at least i believed it to be so.

    7 out of 19 (on this list) were killed by Americans. this is unfortunate; that's almost one-third.
    Last edited by solypsist; 10-20-2005 at 20:41.

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    Quote Originally Posted by solypsist
    http://www.rehumanize.us/journalists.html

    i referenced this with the intent to demonstrate that reporters killed by US troops (direct or indirect) was low, at least i believed it to be so.

    7 out of 19 (on this list) were killed by Americans. this is unfortunate; that's almost one-third.
    According to the IFJ, there are 18 deaths of journalists and media staff at the hands of US soldiers since the invasion of Iraq that still require proper investigation. And I was not just talking of Iraq, because the track record of unaccounted for U.S. 'media killings' goes back at least to the 1999 Kosovo war. The bombings of neutral media offices would be part of the pattern.

    http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?index=3429&Language=EN
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