re: Our President doesn't think the Terrorsit will make it to GITMO

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I feel like you should forfeit all of your rights the moment you get charged with an act of terror.

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You trust every justice department from now until the end of time to wield that kind of power? It would eventually become a new Court of Star Chamber.

He can join the fort hood shooter on death row @ Leavenworth.

I think Bergdahl's trial ends today. Maybe he will get beyond life in prison and will get the the death penalty; and he can join Nidal Hasan the POS who in court pledged terrorism and asked to be a martyr-- who infiltrated our military as a terrorist.

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MTs don't afford the full panoply of US Const rights to unlawful enemy combatants. MTs were ruled Constitutional.

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Military tribunals are Constitutional. Admittedly, they slipped my mind. That said, it does not come into play until the CSRT reviews the case.

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Take care, bro! Have fun in federal criminal court in Manhattan with all of the Jihadis.

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A working knowledge of the Constitution makes me a terrorist? Weird.

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A working knowledge of the Constitution makes me a terrorist? Weird.

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If you had a working knowledge of the Constitution, wouldn't you have had in mind how MTs fit into that Constitution?

Just asking because I want to learn.

Besides, nobody tried to insinuate that you are a Jihadi. Try not to have so many emotions because they cloud reason.

Take care, bro ! Have fun in federal criminal court prosecuting all of the Jihadis as though they were regular american street criminals.

There's a big difference between Mirandizing someone arrested in the US versus Mirandizing captured fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq, which the Obama administration was going. The former I tend to be okay with, especially if they are in the US on legal visas. The latter is a very big problem, you're essentially extending constitutional protections to non-citizens engaged in active warfare against the US on foreign soil.

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let’s remember we still have the greatest and fairest justice system in the world.

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If that's true that's really sad. The red tape in our justice system is beyond laughable.

Better a guilty man go free than an innocent man be locked up.

Downvote away, but that’s one of the cornerstones of due process and Western liberalism.

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feel like you should forfeit all of your rights the moment you get charged with an act of terror.

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I’m torn on the subject.

I feel like US citizens should always be afforded all of their rights and tried by civilian courts for any crimes committed on US territory. Members of the armed services who commit “military” crimes and any crime on military land should be tried in military courts.

I also think there should be a mechanism by which it could be determined that an action (like joining a military of a nation at war with the US) would “renounce” your citizenship. This would effectively make you, in the eyes of the law, a combatant of the US; the military courts could then handle you accordingly.

Perhaps in this case (or in the case of the Boston bomber, etc.) there would be a hearing to determine the terrorist’s affiliation. If this court decides he’s a full citizen then he gets tried the same as anyone else; if the court determined he’s not a citizen then he’s handed over to the military.

Honestly I see opportunities for corruption no matter how we go about it - corruption in the vain of activist judges, and in the vain of an overzealous prosecution.