Reply #33: Well given how legal things are

[nadinbrzezinski]

in a combat zone, I differ.

By the way, will give you a silly example based upon the can you fire at a hospital scenario

Here is how thigns vary depending on conditions realize for all of this you are a patient in this place.

1.- Armed combatants come into the place and start firing at another group of armed combatants. The other group requests Close Air Support which not only takes them out, but take you out. Is it murder, legally here, no, is it a moral problem? That left the door a while ago.

2.- Armed combatants bring a buddy of theirs to the Emergency Room, and GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to leave their weapons outside. The other group decides that yes they are now going to take them out. SO they request CAS and agian they take them out and you. Under the laws of land warfare NOW this is murder. And not just of you, but also the combatants they took out. You could even accuse them, hard to prove, or war crimes.

To make it worst the second group goes into the Emergency Room and SHOOTS unarmed combatants from the first side... now we are into war crime territory. Yes shooting somebody who is out of the fight is a no-no.

And this is the kind of weirdness that happens in the field. And the kind that most people who have never, ever had to deal with this have trouble comprehending.

Now you as an individual may be here for moral reasons, helping others and all that. I know I was, but that does not mean that my sense of morality has any legal standing. Nor shoud the two ever be confused.

By the way, when the DA wanted to charge the bad guys for taking pot shots at me in a marked vehicle... well they had to go to CIVILIAN law, and cite assault on a public official. But attempted murder, for reaosns that I guess are beyond most people's comprehension, was not done. Armed Army Officer onto one of my rigs, I was no longer neutral. Now ANY OTHER ambulance that was NOT a Red Cross Vehicle, they could have done that.