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iceweasel1/10/2010 9:01:16 pm PST

re: #611 Gus 802

I think he won’t get any deal and wind up just like Richard Reid. By the time you add up 278 counts of attempted murder… Another thing, a military tribunal is (or in this case would be) no guarantee of a severe sentence.

Exactly. There isn’t anything ‘more’ that the military tribunal situation could accomplish— except possibly to to reinforce the already widespread lie among extremists that the US legal system is corrupt and won’t deal out justice.

IMO one of the best ‘advertisements’ for our legal system, and for the US as a nation of laws, is to put these people on trial openly for the world to see, treat them justly, and thereby demonstrate exactly how far we are from those who despise us (for precisely those protections, rights, and considerations we offer to all).
And the pragmatic point here is: we can do all that and still convict them.
They want to be martyrs, after all. They want to believe we’re unjust. I say, we don’t let that happen.