Big Fish - Little FIsh

Submitted by rick (United States), May 3, 2006 at 12:56

Those with prominent names and especially those in prominent places l- ike al-arian - should be brought to trial. A public defeat within our legal system is entirely the appropriate way to go.

However, for those many foot soldiers such as the Guantameno prisoners, legal action is to be avoided. The United States did not issue warrants for every German member of the armed forces of the Third Reich and intend to try each of them.

A war is not a trial. These al-qaeda soldiers should be hunted down and taken out where ever they are.

Those within the US should be arrested, face deportation hearings together with whatever family members are with them, have their computers, mail, phone records carefully scrutinized, etc. A trial of these people unless the evidence is overwhleming should be avoided. Deportation to another country where they will most likely be jailed by that host country.

The US need not care about whether the country they are sent to will torture them or not.

Concern for the safety and well being of people we know are terrorists but cannot prove it in under the stringent rules required in a United States law of court do not deserve any consideration.

In fact, their harsh treatment by their country of origin - however that treatment does not reflect out values - does reflect their values. It is their world.

Let them face the consequences of their own murderous and sick culture.

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