Comments on: Terrorist trials in New York – Revisited

By: rjjrdq

rjjrdq — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:35:52 +0000

I think they could be retried in a military tribunal if the government thinks that a retrial is merited. I wouldn’t worry about state secrets being revealed during a trial either. As far as I know, an American citizen would not have access to that information, so why should an exception be made for these guys? The point is moot though, they’re going to New York.
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By: LD Jackson

LD Jackson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:32:15 +0000

I still feel these terrorists could have been handled differently than they were by the Bush administration. The waterboarding and such tactics should have never been used. However, the more I looked at the situation, the more I came to believe that our civilian court system is simply no place for these men to receive their justice.

By: Mr Pink Eyes

Mr Pink Eyes — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:40:09 +0000

Glad to see the reversal Larry! These people are not American citizens and were caught on the battlefield fighting against us, I don’t understand how anyone can legitimize giving them the same rights as American citizens. It has never been done before and we shouldn’t start now.
This opens up the possibility that evidence agaisnt them could be thrown out because of waterboarding and let us not forget that they were not read their rights. There is a possibility, while minute, that these people could walk on a technicallity.
And even if they are found guilty how will it play to the extremeist Muslims if we hold a trial in which the president assured the American people that the defendents will be found guilty and executed before the trial even began. They will use Obama’s words in defense of this decision to claim that the trial was rigged and that justice was not served. It seems to me that this could be used as a recruitment tool.
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By: LD Jackson

LD Jackson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:25:22 +0000

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that these terrorists should not be tried in our civilian court system. They simply do not deserve the rights and privileges that go with such a trial.

I didn’t know you used to live in Oklahoma, Ron. It is truly a small world. As for eating some of my birds, my wife says she has eaten squabs before and that they are very good. I wouldn’t want to eat mine, but I mentioned it to my daughters once and I thought I was going to get scalped. They said it would be like eating our Poodle.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:11:55 +0000

I heard a Democratic pundit earlier today saying this case would NOT set legal precedent in that the American Taliban, John Walker Lindh was captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and returned here and tried in Federal Court. That is true, but he was an American citizen. The German spys and would be sabators who were even captured in N Y State in WWII were tried by Military Tribunals as best I can recall—I could be wrong on this, but I think that was the case. As Lindsay Graham said recently at the Senate hearing this would be ground breaking precedent. If its so vital to have these civil trials why then well some still be tried by military courts—Eric Holders answers just don’t wash. Something else is afoot here.

On a personal note Larry, I use to live in OK, in the small town of Medicine Park just outside of Lawton, had a small stone house there on the side of Wolf Mountain and guess what I also raised pigeons, but not the homing kind, rather the cooking kind—-squabs were great. That, however was many years ago.
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