(+) < - Target element of CIVIL - Target element of MILITANT - > (+)
  

(+) < - Civil ------- Militant - > (+)
(+) < - Friend ------- Foe - > (+)
(+) < - Peace ------- Hostility - > (+)
  

(+) < - Target Objective CIVIL - Target Objective MILITANT - > (+)
  


Note the terms: "Civil" and "Civilities" ...
... including also all the 'civilities' of civilized society and
not excluding its civil necessities such as food, air, water, etc.

 
Better yet... note the term: "Participate" ...
including the clear explanation about 'participating' target elements.




CITE: International Law

From- Civil Defense 1977-1997 - from Law to Practice: Introduction
Written by the legal division of
        The International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva

With reference to: PROTOCOL 1 - ARTICLE 65 - PARAGRAPH 1 of the 1977
conferences of the International Civil Defense Organization, (ICDO) and,
the International Committee of the Red Cross, (ICRC). http://www.icrc.org

Edited at Exist Foundation with copyright permission from the ICRC
(Note: There were some prior ICRC policies at 6 April 1998)

"...Article 65 defines the circumstances in which the general protection
to which civil defense organisations are entitled under Article 62 ceases.
Under paragraph 1, the protection to which civil defense organisations,
their personnel, buildings and materiel are entitled may not cease
unless they commit or are used to commit acts harmful to the
enemy. The idea in this case (which also underlies the First Geneva
Convention's Articles 21 and 22 with regard to the discontinuance of
protection of medical personnel) was to stress that civil
defense organizations are protected insofar as they do not participate
in military activities. Lastly, paragraph 1 specifies that the
protection granted to civil defense services may cease only
after a warning has been given and has remained unheeded..."



CITE: United States Law

Note: the United States is not automatically a signed public state party
to the above civil defense 'Protocol 1' additional to the 4 Geneva 
Conventions, however, other international elements are obligated to relate
to the United States as such, and that the same two civil and militant
elements often occur anyway, such as in this citation of Washington
State's constitutional law which also warns to carefully and competently
separate and discriminate between the two civil and militant
target elements:


WASHINGTON STATE CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I - SECTION 18   MILITARY POWER, LIMITATION OF.

    " The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power. "




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i/e Better carefully discriminate between the two target elements...
...even if you're the one being bombarded at!
  
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'And Hmmm... Where it innocently says "used to commit"?

Don't get "used to it"!