Here’s why terrorists – including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – need to be tried by military tribunals instead of civilian courts.
U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour spoke at a recent meeting of the Open Society Institute that was hosted by George Soros. (That sentence alone should tell you that trouble is coming.) Coughenour makes it clear that people with his philosophy are the reason civilian trials won’t work.
Coughenour: Another set of rules – consistent with our Constitution? It’s kind of hard for me to conceive what those rules would be. If people had problems with the way they gathered evidence…if they gathered evidence through harsh interrogation techniques…you know it may be that there will be some people that can’t be convicted because of the way we conducted ourselves. So be it. The world isn’t at a loss for dangerous people, and the fact that we are unable to convict one or more of these folks, it’s part of the price we pay for being the country we are. And we either live up to our responsibilities as being a leader in human rights, and commitment to our Constitution, or we shouldn’t profess to be what we say we are.
Nice work, Attorney General Holder. Really nice work.
Source: Verum Serum
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that judge should be recalled
He makes sense. So as the article said try the bastard in military court not federal. Trying in federal presents too many constitutional issues that the military does not and it the military is cheaper.
The fact that we are having the conversation/debate as to whether people who are professed terrorists, and who have openly waged war against the United States should be tried in civilian courts within the constitutional framework allotted to US Citizens is gross.
These guys shouldn’t be tried-they should be held indefinitely in gulag-style military prisons where they get daily beatings. That is the only way to exact justice from such animals-screw human rights-these people are animals not human beings!
uhm .. khalid sheikh mohammed was killed september 11th, 2002 as reported in Pakistani media.
the guy they are flaunting as KSM is actually Ahmed Abdul Qadus.
and there is no justification for denying ANYONE their civil rights. if these people are so damn guilty, what would it matter if they had their right to a fair trial? shouldnt you have ample evidence to convince a jury that they are so guilty? apparently not.
if you let government deny anyone their rights, it wont be long before they come for yours.