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To: emax

Wonder how many of those also demand military trials for terrorists which this law ordains? While it does not specifically doesn’t rule such trials out for US citizens, this is nothing new. US citizens have been tried in military courts in the past. See Ex Parte Qurin.

I think the problem is, too many folks do not understand that certain actions may be handled by military courts even for those who have never served. But even when a citizen is detained, he still retains habeus corpus and can require the government to justify his detention.

Another problem. Those who think our military would detain US citizens because Obama demanded that do our military a grave injustice. Such a demand would be unconstitutional and would be rejected.


23 posted on 01/02/2012 3:31:17 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: DugwayDuke

Well, i know this is an unpredictable and downright creepy time for a lot of us, but dman dude, I would think “support our troops” means understanding that they are citizens like us, citizens who joined to fight for our Constitutional Rights and know these rights-in short, that these are not a bunch of idiots and mindless droves that can be made to carry out any adminsitrations whims. I thought presuming our troops to be moronic was for the hard leftists.


24 posted on 01/02/2012 3:37:08 PM PST by emax
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