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How Obama is Bringing Martial Law to America
Interesting take.By Shannon Love In my previous post, I listed some (but far from all) of the practical problems presented by trying in a civil criminal court an individual (1) who was captured overseas, (2) had evidence against him collected using covert means, with (3) no chain of evidence or custody, and (4) was harshly and physically interrogated with (5) all witnesses and methods being secret. The greatest danger posed in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) isnt that he will go free. The greatest danger is that he will be convicted and that during his appeals the courts will ratify all of the extraordinary measures used to capture and convict him. The great danger is that the courts will ratify the rough, inaccurate and ambiguous norms of martial law as applying to all civil criminal trials. After a couple of decades of these court decisions reverberating throughout the legal system, we could end up living under de facto martial law. Rest at link Posted by: ed 2009-11-17 |
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