US suspends 'war on terror' trials after court ruling

Yahoo News ^ | 11/15/05

[Melas]

Last time I checked, the Constitution did indeed give congress such oversight. Perhaps you should check again?

[Melas]

Article I Section 8, clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces

Solely the job of congress. Are you familiar with the UCMJ? Handed down from congress my friend. Congress makes the rules.

[right-wingin_It]

I'm glad that the Government will wait a while before they appeal. They should wait until Alito is in for O'Conner, and another lib steps down in the comming year.

[bill1952]

There is nothing separate between the judiciary and congress.

Most all of congress is in the legal profession, and the bills are vetted by lawyers.

To be truly separate, there should be no member of the legal profession in Congress.

[bill1952]

Sorry, but BS.

The Nuremberg trials were conducted by a group of Victors and allies.

We have none. What we do have are entire legal organizations devoted solely to the destruction of the US.

Not to mention a myriad of Socialist states wanting the same.

Just shoot them and be done with it.

[geezerwheezer]

I say we give Fidel Castro a really nice present...turn all of them loose in Cuba, and tell Fidel "Merry Christmas". That would solve all of our problems really quick.

[gondramB]

" Just shoot them and be done with it."

To my knowledge we have never had a situation where the Federal government systematically executed people without trials in our history. Do you think Al Quaida is the biggest threat we have faced?

[conservative physics]

you are correct, I was wrong.

[bill1952]

To your knowledge, have you ever heard of military trials and summary execution?

There are so many examples of such from the Revolutionary War to Korea, that I doubt your veracity.

And thats what we are writing about here.
Speedy military trials & punishment.

Not the ACLU trying to neuter us with endless civilian complaints.

[mosquitobite]

That was the first thing I looked up too...

[gondramB]

"
There are so many examples of such from the Revolutionary War to Korea, that I doubt your veracity. "

Since you think I am being dishonest, I at least appreciate you being polite about it.


Let's leave the revolutionary war aside since we didn't have much government pr infrastructure in place.

But since then i have to tell you I am not aware of the Federal government systematically executing either civilians or captured soldiers without trials.

You changed the topic when said they had military trials. I guess you are gonna think I'm either dishonest or naive again but I think of executions following military trials not being normal for enemy soldiers, even irregulars.

Now for spies, I've heard of that. And I've heard of executions when there were no facilities for holding and it was unsafe to release.

But even if you are right about the history I think we are mistaken to not afford captured Al Quaeada some kind of rights -either as POWs or as civilian terrorists.

As POW's they could be held til the end of the war. I'm not sure why that is not the right choice if we don't want to let them go.

[conserv13]

The trials need to be more like the Nuremburg trials and less like a secret tribunal.

Please don't confuse this for sympathy with traitors - if he fought with the enemy against his country then he should hang.. but first he should have a fair trial with proper charges, a good lawyer and and a public hearing.

I agree 100%. Well put.