Do you capture a terrorist leader, give him a lawyer and put him into a justice system that could take years to provide any outcome while his partners are blowing up trains, knocking down buildings, planting roadside bombs and blasting nightclubs around the world?
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How do we protect our own while dealing with a brutal and evil world?
Think you have a better way? Lay it on us.
I can only speak for myself, TRH is far more eloquent than I.
Can't we admit there is a WIDE GULF between "giving terrorists access to ACLU/Lawyers/The Media/3-squares/ etc. and opening detention centers where the public has no idea who may (or may not) be interred, and for what reasons, and for how long?
"Congressional oversight" is already a term that (deservedly) attracts laughs of derision, but when even they can't get access beyond "generalities" granted only to 2 members, don't you think we've gone a little too far?
Only those pleased at the TSA, Patriot I & II, and
all the other abominations we have inflicted on OURSELVES in the name of "War on Terror" could possibly applaud this. It is one of the most UN-American things I've ever heard of.
Remember, when the Income Tax was first passed, it was levied on those making something like $500,000/yr and up, and only taxed them at a flat 5%. I may have the historical data slightly wrong, but I think you get the gist of where I am going with this. It will be abused. Count on it. At least the income tax was done in plain sight, these Gulags aren't.
Do you not value your right to know what your government is doing? Wouldn't we all applaud if we could see the progress being made?
On the flip side, do you really think any jury would acquit a real terrorist?
I am really trying to make this simple, I just don't have the words.