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Now keep walking down that road. WHY must these "terrorists" be tried in military tribunals, where Constitutional rights and the rules of evidence need not apply, and where they can't face their accusers and cross-examine them? Why set that precedent, unless it's to set into law the precedent that our court system isn't up to the challenge of dealing with dissidents, who then must also be tried by the military?

And the very first thing they'll tell you about this kind of shit?

"Oh, we'd NEVER do that to American citizens."

I'm old enough to remember when the DPS said it was NEVER going to pull people over just for not having a seatbelt on. Now they run entire campaigns on it, calling it "Click it or Ticket".

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Yes I'm getting that now. The question is not are you paranoid, but are you paranoid *enough*?

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Clever trick, making the first case an American muslim extremist. Of course, that doesn't mean they staged the incident, though they could have, all they really had to do was wait.

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Now it will be interesting to see what happens. He's going to a regular court and pleading insanity. If that works, people will be outraged, and the govt. will step in, call him a "terrorist" and retry him in a military tribunal. Or some form of mock justice. The more I see of justice the more I understand why Lao Tse has such a serious problem with the concept.

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