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We have heard government lawyers argue for dramatic expansion of the category of enemy combatants.
"The decision to detain him indefinitely under this new category of enemy combatant is intriguing," said Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard.
The error, all too common in popular moral reasoning, consists in lumping an entire population into the category of "enemy" and then treating all people in the group as equally responsible for decisions made by their rulers.
To judge from some banners, they may have a new category of enemy: Eurocrats.José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, keeps saying that the days of stimulus spending are over; now is the time for budget cuts.
Here is Tod Lindberg, the editor of Policy Review, writing in the Washington Times: "The United States is now energetically in the business of making governments pick a side: either with us and against the terrorists, or against us and with them... Against the category of enemy stands the category of 'friend'friend
Would bin Laden fall into the same category of enemy as the person in that text?
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With it, a new category of "enemies of the people" was established in terms so vague that virtually anyone could be accused.
History shows that the categories of "enemy of the people" tend to expand ever deeper into civil life.
Although they had been welcomed to Britain as Jewish refugee children, they now fell under the peculiar category of "friendly enemy aliens".
Eric M. Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University, said the people made eligible for trial yesterday do not fit within the narrow historical category of unlawful enemy combatant for whom such trials might be appropriate.
Only the good (in other words, us) and the evil (meaning everything that stands in our way, that opposes us, and which we force wholesale into the sinister category of the enemy).
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