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Originally Posted by imcarthur
Let me see hear . . .
Military tribunal . . . probable torture . . . no due process . . . very limited (or non existent) legal options . . . summary convictions (undoubtedly) . . .
Does this scenery remind anybody of anywhere else/anytime else?
Bravo to the Supreme Court of the United States of America!
Ian
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Let me see here - non-U.S. citizens, captured on foreign battlefields, out of uniform, not belonging to any military of any nation state, deliberately targeting civilians, having declared war on the U.S. and not physically on U.S. sovereign soil.
What other country would consider foreign terrorists caught in third party countries somehow entitled to that country's domestic laws?
If you targeted and killed a busload of German students in China and were caught in Pakistan, why would you expect to be entitled to German constitutioal protections? If the world thinks Americans view themselves as the world police and the supreme moral and legal authority, this decision only reinforces that. If our laws apply to everyone everywhere, where don't our laws apply?