Senate OKs US Trials for Gitmo Prisoners

"Prosecuting these individuals in our U.S. courts simply will not work, and there is too much at stake to grant the unprecedented benefit of our legal system's complex procedural safeguards to foreign nationals who were captured outside the United States during a time of war," said Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. - Translation? 'Under US law, anyone who's been kidnapped and then tortured is probably going to get off on a technicality' - Now before the thumbs down storm let me say - no fucking way I would ever be in favour of some psycho retard who has misread the Koran and turned himself into a one man murder spree being set free, or avoiding punishment - but the point is - once you start down the road of grey area justice - you either go all the way and put a bullet in the back of their heads somewhere quiet - or you go after them legitimately from the get go - you can't do both. That's the real dilemma facing the anti-terrorist agencies - they have to do something and the enemy isn't playing by the same rules. But in the bigger picture - when you break your own rules - for whatever reason - once - then there's a whole slippery slope history shows us is waiting for the unsuspecting soul with 'right' on their side and no rules to play by. Reply

Good. Nice to see democracy finally in action. Reply