Defending liberty, How?
While I was cheering to the decision to only use eavesdropping with court warrant a new threat to civil liberties emerged:
The Pentagon set rules Thursday for detainee trials that could allow terror suspects to be convicted and perhaps executed using hearsay testimony and coerced statements, setting up a new clash between President Bush and Congress.
This isn’t the first time this administration passed laws and regulations that are in direct contradiction with civil liberties: The Patriot Act, The military Commission Act and more. and Once and Again the administration come with more reasons why it should limit, slightly more, the same liberties it put on the flag of war. I do not understand why we insist on trials for terrorist instead of holding them as prisoners of war. However, once we decided that we are going to trial terrorist we should not ease the requirement of guilt proof. We can’t win a war to "defend liberty", while destroying its meaning at the same time.
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