re: #1317 freetoken

Are you claiming that we have not prosecuted (via the criminal system) terrorists before?

It seems you’re trying to define away the issue here by saying the 5 individuals in question are only like the combatants of nations we have fought via declared (by Congress, UN mandate, or whatever) wars.

If the people involved in the previous attack on the WTC were subject to trial, then why not those who were part of (by direction and conspiracy) the second attack?

Actually it is both a federal crime to bomb our buildings and an act of war. The call could easily be made either way legally. That is just a fact.

What is not a fact is that these people are given the status of POWs. They most pointedly were not given that status to avoid having to give them the rights and protections of the Geneva Conventions.

What is also not a fact is that these people were given any form of fair representation in a speedy trial.

What is also not a fact is that it is somehow legal to torture.