Well, well, well. This was only a matter of time.

There's a MAGAT amongst us who has expressed the opinion that the police department should be allowed to use chemical weapons that have been banned by the Geneva Convention against protesters.

https://similarworlds.com/politics/5322948-Mask-Donor-in-Los-Angeles-Arrested?com_id=63259558&ncom_id=63265892&sort=1&notif_id=309404859&notif_uid=1201381

I wonder, how many others are willing to admit that they think people exercising their first amendment rights should have illegal chemical weapons sprayed in their faces?

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

To me this is two issues. First off I agree tear gas being used on protests is just bad. Heck even without the gas I remember a G7 summit in Quebec City where a resident got a cracked skull from a canister walking out their apartment building.

The bit about the Geneva Convention is a bit irrelevant since ironically the one group you are not supposed to use it on are issued gas masks and in some cases full "bunny suits) that make it largely irrelevant.

Signatory militaries also don't even comply when it comes to their own troops. Most common example of this is in the Canadian Armed Forces they used tear gas for gas attack drills in basic training.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I know they do. My dad was in the army, and he remembers tear gas training. I think the justification with that was that the enemy might still use it, because why would they obey the Geneva Convention?

Which I guess makes sense.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire Yeah my dad was in the Air Force and go the same treatment. But the reality is is nobody follows the rules of war. Those are just things to punish the loser of a conflict after the fact.

Hell the NATO "nuclear umbrella" where the US hands out nukes to Europe and formerly Canada is explicitly forbidden in the NPT.

NATO for years produced chemical nerve agents "for research".

And everyone has their pre-approved excuse of why it is ok.

Hell the US and various allies literally decided torture was legal because Don Rumsfeld wrote a memo.

The Geneva conventions also have some strange provisions too like technically you are supposed to pay a salary to POWs. Literally nobody follows that.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire Another fun one. Mercenaries are illegal under the UN but if you change it to a euphemism "PMC" magically the law doesn't apply anymore.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I'm not the slightest bit surprised at any of this. Just disappointed.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire Same.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@LordShadowfire Then again I live in a country with a military that literally didn't have a provision in place to strip a convicted serial killer of their military pension.

Sooooo yeah.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Wow. Yeah. Both of our countries need to do better, but I'm not holding my breath.