re: #1363 Obdicut

To deny a fair and speedy and open trial is unamerican.

To torture is unamerican.

These are activities done by Russia, China and North Korea. Whether or not those nations have done far worse is irrelevant. In those nations, people are picked up, detained and held for ears without any rights. They are also tortured.

How is that different from picking up people, putting them in a legal grey zone and torturing them?

It isn’t.

By denying a speedy trial to the accused, and defending that, and their treatment, those people are advocating for what happened as a good thing.

The fact of the matter, as was also clearly written by me more than once, is that any fair and open trial will give us closure. These people are opposed to that. Moreover, read what they are saying about the accused not having rights. Even in the last few posts.

No. Again, the criticism is apt.

As to the trial putting soldiers in harms way. That is ludicrous. Firing up the enemy by giving them the propaganda that we are everything their masters say we are harms more of our men. Or perhaps, letting KSM speak in court will hurt our troops? How? If he opens his mouth and goes Jihad, he gives us the propaganda win for actually detaining a clear monster (which of course he is).