[Always A Marine]

This is good news, finally. Padilla might well be a traitor and deserving of the death penalty, but he is a Citizen whose rights cannot be taken away without due process. Let the charges be proven in open court, to a jury of fellow citizens.

If the government can ignore the rights of one citizen, it can do the same to any and all of us.

[jwalsh07]

Two points.

The trial of the one-eyed "American Citizen" responsible for the first attack on the WTC resulted in several items becoming public which aided and abetted the second attack on 9/11. Those were the governments being forced in open court to reveal that they knew Usama bin Laden's cell phone number and also being forced to turn over all architecturals regarding construction of the WTC.

And the second point is this. When the drone sent a missile up the tailpipe of the car in Yemen with the six bad guys, one of those bad guys was a United States citizen. Is the government guilty of murder?

[jwalsh07]

Two points.

The trial of the one-eyed "American Citizen" responsible for the first attack on the WTC resulted in several items becoming public which aided and abetted the second attack on 9/11. Those were the governments being forced in open court to reveal that they knew Usama bin Laden's cell phone number and also being forced to turn over all architecturals regarding construction of the WTC.

And the second point is this. When the drone sent a missile up the tailpipe of the car in Yemen with the six bad guys, one of those bad guys was a United States citizen. Is the government guilty of murder?