Posted on 11/05/2009 8:48:21 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
We strongly object to the President creating a two-tier system of justice for terrorists in which those responsible for the death of thousands on 9/11 will be treated as common criminals and afforded the kind of platinum due process accorded American citizens, yet members of Al Qaeda who aspire to kill Americans but who do not yet have blood on their hands, will be treated as war criminals. The President offers no explanation or justification for this contradiction, even as he readily acknowledges that the 9/11 conspirators, now designated "unprivileged enemy belligerents," are appropriately accused of war crimes. We believe that this two-tier system, in which war criminals receive more due process protections than would-be war criminals, will be mocked and rejected in the court of world opinion as an ill-conceived contrivance aimed, not at justice, but at the appearance moral authority.
The public has a right to know that prosecuting the 9/11 conspirators in federal courts will result in a plethora of legal and procedural problems that will severely limit or even jeopardize the successful prosecution of their cases. Ordinary criminal trials do not allow for the exigencies associated with combatants captured in war, in which evidence is not collected with CSI-type chain-of-custody standards. ...
Additionally, federal rules risk that classified evidence protected in military commissions would be exposed in criminal trials, revealing intelligence sources and methods and compromising foreign partners, who will be unwilling to join with the United States in future secret or covert operations if doing so will risk exposure in the dangerous and hostile communities where they operate. This poses a clear and present danger to the public. The safety and security of the American people is the President's and Congress's highest duty.
(Excerpt) Read more at keepamericasafe.com ...
Full disclosure: My wife and I, Patty and Tim Sumner, are among the 200 signers of the letter.
They can’t pass this Amendment fast enough! The idea that these rabid dogs should have the rights and privileges of the US court system that those who died never got, is to this American, and should be to every American, abhorrent and disgusting. Unfortunately the man sitting in our White House is not an American, and sympathizes with their cause.
God Bless you and your wife.
hey now!
You rose up from you rest to support our men and women in uniform!
No surprise there!
Could to see you at the keyboard.
Pat
That would be, GOOD to see you.
Sorry.
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