Sunday, June 22, 2008

New Sweden on... War, POWs, POW Rights, and Terrorism

Welcome to the first edition of New Sweden on... Today we will discus New Sweden's opinion on various aspects of war. First we will begin with our opinion of Prisoners of War.
The Encyclopedia New Sweden (which is slowly being added to the internet) defines a Prisoner of War (POW) as a member of a national or otherwise official military organization captured in uniform by an opposing forces. This means that if a scout, infantry member, pilot, sailor or other uniformed member of a military if caught must be treated as a prisoner of war but a spy or even one of the aforementioned units with out their uniform on may not be treated as a POW. Also the organization they are a member of must be officially recognized by us as New Sweden or by the United Nations. This means that rebels, freedom fighters, terrorist, PETA members, Political Cartoonists, and more need not be treated as a POW if captured.
Now onto POW rights. According to New Swedish law a prisoner of war may not be tortured above the Peaceful level of New Swedish Torture Scale (see encyclopedia New Sweden). They also must be fed well, properly cared for, and have bargaining talks with their home country. Of course if a certain POW is unruly, ungrateful, hard to control, is spying and/or breaks other rules a certain amount of times they can be labeled as unstable and be treated differently. Unstable and non-POWs can be tortured to a level Hard and might only be given 1 meal a day, bad living quarters, little medical care, no talks with their countries, being forced to be in a work camp and more. The difference between unstable POWs and non-POWs is unstable POW can be redeemed and become a normal POW.
Finally I will talk about terrorism. The Encyclopedia New Sweden defines terrorism as an act of violence or terror for political or idealogical reasons. Terrorists in New Sweden, if captured are not treated as POWs. See the Encyclopedia New Sweden for more details.

2 comments:

Ammon Allred said...

Is your country's legal time trained by the Bush Administration?

Justice Mythos Wyrm said...

What does that mean. Hopefully the answer is no . Unless of course it is about human rights. Then I must say Stalin was a good teacher.