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  • South
    moorbey April 8, 2013 at 3:55pm

    There are over 100 political prisonerz/prisonerz of war on amerikkkan soil that amerika'z government since tha beginning of haz sald that there are not nor has there ever been. But we all know that tha amerikan government can,does and will lie when tha need arises.

    75 of tha estimated 100 political prisonerz iz Nu-Afrikan. Will these  political prisonerz ever be releasedno 4 tha amerikkkan government still fearz themeven now because 4 many have been in solitarty confinement 4 over 25 yearz and have broken and still continue tha fight 4 self-determination of Nu-Afrikan people. Panther Love

    • TheBlackList > moorbey April 8, 2013 at 4:13pm

      There is a wide distinction between Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.

      They are difference and distinct.

      Political Prisoners:

      According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’.

      The term is used by persons or groups challenging the legitimacy of the detention of a prisoner. Supporters of the term define a political prisoner as someone who is imprisoned for his or her participation in political activity. If a political offense was not the official reason for detention, the term would imply that the detention was motivated by the prisoner's politics.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner

      Prisoners of War:

      A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or "Missing-Captured"[1]) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.

      Captor states hold captured combatants and non-combatants in continuing custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons. They are held to isolate them from combatants still in the field, to release and repatriate them in an orderly manner after hostilities, to demonstrate military victory, to punish them, to prosecute them for war crimes, to exploit them for their labor, to recruit or even conscript them as their own combatants, to collect military and political intelligence from them, and to indoctrinate them in new political or religious beliefs.[2]
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war

      ~Kwasi

  • West
    Michael Novick April 6, 2013 at 10:21pm

    I believe there are P.O.W.s in the U.S., including Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican independentista who specifically took a POW stance, refusing to acknowledge the authority of the US government to try him. There is a major campaign being waged now by the Boricua Human Rights Network and others to win his freedom. There is also Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black freedom fighter who exercised his responsibility as a POW to escape captivity (twice), and is being held in solitary confinement in PA. There is currently a campaign for his release being coordinated by his daughter, Theresa and others. She's on national tour timed to the publication of his writings in the book "Maroon the Implacable."

    • KWASI Akyeampong > Michael Novick April 6, 2013 at 11:22pm

      Prisoners of war (POW) are only prisoners of war in a war.
      If they are prisoners of war then they are prisoners in a war that both sides recognise as a war.
      In war, prisoners are imprisoned until the war as ended with victory, truce or surrender.
      A prisoner of war dishoner his cause by pleaing to the authority of his captor for his release.
      As you say they "took a POW stance" and that only a stance and does not make one a POW.

      The as you say "refuse(ing) to acknowledge the authority of the US government". They are therefore rebels against a recognised authority.
      Rebels are generally held in captivity until they have won or lost their rebellion or have pleaded and have forsaken their cause.

      Why should any government set free anyone who is in a state of war or in rebellion against them?

      That's elementary!!!

      ~Kwasi

       

       

       

       

    • Bronx Scoop > KWASI Akyeampong April 7, 2013 at 2:36pm

      Interesting.

      Thanks.

      I got it.

      Being a POV is one of the outcome of being at was.

      There are people among us who idealize some prisoners as POVs, forgetting that POVs are only freed at the cession on the war.

       

       

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