On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:15 PM, (via tml list) [Leonard Erickson Apparently] <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

BTW, hiding among civilians may or may not be legal.

Firing from someplace where return fire will endanger civilians is a
war crime.

That's more a case of you being a sniper or setting an ambush. If you
are escoorting a group of civilians and come under fire, then you can
return fire legally.

Same sort of thing goes for using hospitals and the like as cover,

I was thinking of something along the lines of timing the donning of the badges to occur just prior to initiating hostilities, which would in turn be timed to coincide with the target world's government receiving the official declaration of war from the invading world's embassy AND the arrival at the jump threshold of the invasion fleet.

Of course - just as with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - that sort of precision timing across vast distances involving multiple responsible entities is probably NOT going to go off without a hitch . . .

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

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"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.