Pentagon sets rules for trials

[wirelessenabled]

Gotta love the Pentagon. They grab all these guys from Afghanistan and wherever, call them enemy combatants, put them into cages at Gitmo, allow no access for more than two years to family, lawyers, press, Red Cross etc. Now under pressure from everybody who loves liberty, the Pentagon sets the rules for the trials. Linky

Since when does the prosecutor get to set the rules for trials? Every day we get one step closer to a dictatorship:frown:

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Who should make the rules...France? Oh, wait, the "world community," right?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
Who should make the rules...France? Oh, wait, the "world community," right?

How about something remotely similar to the legal system we have now?

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
Who should make the rules...France? Oh, wait, the "world community," right?

How about something remotely similar to the legal system we have now?

That's an interesting thought. God forbid we hold ourselves to the same standards we hold everyone else.

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Double post.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
Who should make the rules...France? Oh, wait, the "world community," right?

How about something remotely similar to the legal system we have now?

Sorry, but in my world, people who take up arms against us are not entitled to "something remotely similar to the legal system we have now."

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

...how about we give them a little taste of something remotely similar to the legal system they had before they took up arms against us?

 

[Dari]

The outcome in these military tribunals should satisfy everyone, especially the victims of terror.

 

[wirelessenabled]

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
...how about we give them a little taste of something remotely similar to the legal system they had before they took up arms against us?

Galt if you think that is such a great way to go the US under Bush is headed in the right direction. Bush on a whim sorts people into various catagories with various rights or no rights. What is the difference between that and how the Taliban and Iran and other totalitarian states conduct their affairs?

When did the Iraqis take up arms against the US? The world wonders.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: wirelessenabled


When did the Iraqis take up arms against the US? The world wonders.

1991 and 2003 (and shooting at our aircraft in the northern and southern no-fly-zones)...wonder no more.

 

[wirelessenabled]

Originally posted by: Dari
The outcome in these military tribunals should satisfy everyone, especially the victims of terror.

So Dari your version of a justice system is to satisfy the victims of crime? What with blood, gore and guts? Should we just hang everybody who gets accused of a crime? People accused of any crime shouldn't have any ability to conduct a defense? Tell their side of the story? If Bush says they're guilty that's good enough for you?

Saddam ran Iraq on that basis. Did you want to live there? Why not?

Must be nice to be sitting so securely that you take no cognizance of history and believe that you will be the one to escape the whim of a dictator. Government by whim is bad for all people subject to it except for the very few at the top of the pyramid.