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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
The Geneva Conventions require that any such person be afforded due process.

Well, if you have any experience with the Executive Branch, you'll know that 'due process' is any official process: obviously, in this case, the due process is to be shot out of hand.

Actually, I'm not so much in favor of shooting them as I am of tying them to stakes, heaping rolled copies of the Constitution around their feet and setting fire to the whole sheebang.

20 posted on 12/08/2001 11:10:00 AM PST by Grut
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To: Grut
The Geneva Conventions require that any such person be afforded due process.

Well, if you have any experience with the Executive Branch, you'll know that 'due process' is any official process: obviously, in this case, the due process is to be shot out of hand.

I agree with you that bureaucrats in the Executive Branch are enamored of their power and tend to intimidate and coerce we the people.

However, 'due process' is a concept primarily associated with the Judicial Branch, and there the situation is the same--judges tend to love to intimidate and ram their personal agendas through by means of their official process, which all too often is no where near synonymous with fairness.

Due process tends to mean in practice that you are afforded an opportunity to present your case (not adequately in many cases) to a judicial official; there's no guarantee in practice that the judicial official is going to conduct the hearing fairly.

I disagree with your assumption that due process under Bush's executive order will be to have the al Qaeda members shot out of hand. I think they will be afforded proper due process by the military tribunals. Rush has documented that the conviction rates of similar military tribunals are lower than those for our federal court system!

I personally think most should be executed after being tried, but I somehow and unfortunately doubt that this will happen in today's PC environment. Just imagine what the terrorist huggers like Daschle, Kennedy, Leahy and a lot of TaLibertarians that post here would do?

22 posted on 12/08/2001 11:37:39 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
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