See, here’s the problem with the way liberals push enemy-combatant rights. Whenever there’s a contradiction it shuts your entire system of beliefs down and makes you all look like total hypocrits.
Under the Geneva Conventions, only soldiers fighting under a specific flag have any rights. People like terrorists, who float from country to country and fight by any means they see fit, have no rights under the international rules of war. This is why the Bush Administration tossed them in Gitmo indefinately and used otherwise barred interrogation techniques, because they literally have no rights under our or anyone else’s legal system. Now before you say “the Geneva Conventions wasn’t foward thinking and couldn’t predict this” keep in mind they were forward thinking enough to bar the use of hollowpoint rounds and other, specialty anti-infantry ammo such as frangible and incendiary. Since the terrorists in Gitmo were granted similar rights as citizens by ACLU lawyers, they basically have at least the rights of those captured under the Geneva Contentions. In reality it’s probably closer to the legal rights of full US citizens.
Now, historically US citizens that fought for other nations were tried and convicted as traitors and shot out back behind the courthouse. No one cared because, well, they were traitors. The evidence was typically pretty damning, such as being caught in an enemy uniform while holding a weapon used by the enemy. For example, US citizens of German heritage that returned to Germany before the US entered WW2. Well, eventually they found themselves shooting at US soldiers and tanks and we didn’t think to highly of that. We typically didn’t even care that they were citizens, they were the enemy and that was that.
This guy SHOULD be doubly screwed. Not only did he turn traitor, which revokes all his US citizen rights, but he did so in a way that also prevents him from claiming enemy-combatant rights under international common law. The government shouldn’t even need a trial to put this guy in front of an M1 Abrams and blast him apart but with the groundwork the ACLU and other liberal retards have laid it’s highly unlikely that he’ll get the death penalty. In fact, I’d be surprised if they even jail him for it. I predict he’ll get himself a hotshot lawyer and sue the US government for discrimination and win millions of taxpayer dollars.
Btw, I have zero tolerance for traitors and prefer killing them in unique, exotic, and often overly expensive ways. The M1 is one of the quicker ways on my list, the slowest is lethal dose of radiation without pain meds. Yes, it’s brutal, but so is their crime.