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Re: [No joke] The Feds may legally gas us
> The Deviant wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
> > Folks,
> > Did you know that the Feds may legally test chemical and biological weapons
> > on the civilian population as long as they give 30 days advance notice to
>
> No, they can't. Development, testing, and use of Biological weapons is
> banned by the Geneva conventions (among others). International treaty
> outweighs USC.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Geneva conventions do not apply
to nations acting upon their own citizens... This showed up in the legal
wrangling over whether the brutality in Bosnia-Herzegovena was part of a
civil war or a war between nations, and hence whether an international
tribunal had authority...
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Jim Wise
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http://www.arch.columbia.edu/~jim
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