"Hunter, in opening remarks at the hearing, suggested that Congress must not grant detainees access to the military's courts-martial system, which would afford them certain rights, such as immediately being informed of charges against them and immediate access to legal counsel."
From: CNN.com - House chairman: Pentagon must remain tough on terror suspects - Jul 12, 2006
What a concept. Suspected criminals should know what they are accused of. Barely a week after a judge threw out 2/3 of SCO's lawsuit against IBM because SCO would not tell IBM what they had done wrong (comparing it to telling a shoplifter at Macy's, "I'm not telling you because you know what you stole"), a US congressman is saying that suspected terrorists don't deserve the basic rights that any judicial system founded on the premise of "innocent until proven guilty" should give any suspect. I don't remember congressmen saying Timothy McVeigh shouldn't be told what he was accused of, or that he shouldn't get a speedy and fair trial.
I don't care what we suspect them of, these people deserve to be treated as human until they've been proven guilty. That is a basic part of the US legal system and cannot be ignored if we are to be true to ourselves and the ideals we claim to believe in.
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