I ask myself,<div>if such &quot;State of Exception&quot; gets applied in a current &quot;representative&quot; country,</div><div>can it be considered as &quot;total war&quot;, and hence be illegal under the fourth geneva convention ?</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>also notice another following excerpt when browsing :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa#Germany_plans_the_invasion">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa#Germany_plans_the_invasion</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">&quot;The Nazis often emphasized the Soviet regime&#39;s brutality when targeting the Slavs with propaganda. German propaganda claimed the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Red Army</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> was preparing to attack them, and their own invasion was thus presented as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-emptive_war" title="Pre-emptive war" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">pre-emptive</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.&quot;</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_exception" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_exception</a></div>

<div>( more detailed in french version : <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tat_d&#39;exception" target="_blank">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tat_d&#39;exception</a> )</div><div><div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM, mp <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mp@aktivix.org" target="_blank">mp@aktivix.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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<div><div><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/009254.html" target="_blank">http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/009254.html</a><br>
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A Brief History of the State of Exception<br>
by Giorgio Agamben<br>
An excerpt from State of Exception</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>