in article clac5q$t42$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp, Scott Reynolds at
sar@gol.com wrote on 10/22/04 4:17 PM:

> On 10/22/2004 3:54 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
>> in article claaco$qv4$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp, Scott Reynolds at
>> sar@gol.com wrote on 10/22/04 3:47 PM:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10/22/2004 10:41 AM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/21/2004 10:48 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What would you consider an appropriate punishment for them?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The US and US soldiers responsible for committing crimes such as the
>>>>>> abusers of Abu
>>>>>> Ghraib should be treated or punished the way they would treat or punish
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> detainees, held without charge or trial. And they should be regarded the
>>>>>> same.
>>>>>> Actually the abusers of Abu Ghraib are convicted criminals, thus below
>>>>>> many
>>>>>> of their
>>>>>> "innocent" victims.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I see. So the penalty for extralegal abuses is extralegal abuse. Somehow
>>>>> I don't think this is going to do much to improve things.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The punishment is not extralegal abuse, if it is the law.
>>> 
>>> So holding people "without charge or trial" is the law?
>> 
>> 
>> I think that Eric momentarily let his anger get the best of him. His
>> statement is inconsistent with other statements he has made espousing the
>> need for due process.
> 
> Really? In many of his earlier postings (on other topics) Eric has shown
> great disdain for due process.

I was thinking of the threads where he ranted against the Japanese legal
system for not having adequate due process. This was about two, three years
ago.