Justice Seems to Have Forgotten One Crucial Point: We’re At War
“Those responsible for Sept. 11, 2001, are no more criminals who belong in a civilian court than the fascists of Germany or Japan of World War II did. Indeed, the Nazi saboteurs of World War II captured on U.S. soil were tried in military commissions. Those fascists, like the leadership of al-Qaeda, literally declared war on us…
“Osama bin Laden, Mohammed and their al-Qaeda cohorts do not have the civilian constitutional right to remain silent, to have an attorney, to a speedy trial, to be judged by a jury of their peers and so on. By categorizing these men as mere criminals, we have incongruently tried to merge war-fighting tactics with the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. On the one hand, we drop bombs on al-Qaeda using Predator drones and, on the other, we have to ‘Mirandize’ them if captured. This is nonsensical.”
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