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To: Sacajaweau
Do you really consider ANY terrorist a citizen? These terrorists mock our courts.

Our Constitution wasn't written so that the party in power at any particular time can cherry-pick the requirements needed to arrest an individual under military jurisdiction. A United States Citizen while in United States territory should NEVER be subject to military arrest and/or military trial at the whim of the government, regardless of what they have been accused of.

17 posted on 11/29/2011 10:20:27 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

Well said. I have no great objection with detaining citizens engaged in terrorism abroad, who are on the battlefield, so to speak. Try them in a military tribunal.

But when it comes to detaining citizens without trial in the U.S., that is a step too far.


18 posted on 11/29/2011 10:23:49 AM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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