Betty Blue,Fearless Leader, Richard – exactly right. It ought to be a military trial not a civilian trial.
They are not civilians but members of a miltary agenda to commit war against the USA. This ‘military agenda’ is an ideological membership using terrorist strategies; i.e., it’s not a nation-vs-nation war but an ideological roup of members versus a nation. In either case, their actions are not criminal actions but war actions.
Then, on a lesser point, they are not US citizens or legal residents but are nationals of foreign nations and captured on foreign soil. They have, both as members of a military sect and as aliens, no constitutional rights to a criminal trial.
And as you have all accurately pointed out, the due process of a criminal trial, which presumes innocence, which requires and presumes an unbiased jury, which cannot admit unmirandized evidence etc, can’t be met. It’s already heavily compromised by both Hodder and Obama.
Furthermore, the fact that they confessed will be denied, and we will be told that they confessed only’under torture’. Result? The US will be put on trial; they will claim ‘just cause’ for their actions based on the Evil Nature of the USA…and the whole show will incite more jihadists to join Al Qaeda.
IF they are found guilty, they’ll be martyrs; more incitement, more ‘just cause’.
If they are released (it has to be an option in our criminal system)…it will be a huge victory for jihadism.
I have to conclude that Hodder and Obama are anti-American leftists, or stupid, or both.
