What is your opinion about the Supreme Court giving terrorists the same trial rights as Americans?

Question

Recent supreme court ruling gives terrorists the same "rights" that Americans have in a court of law.
What do you think??

Answer 1

Terrorists deserve no rights. To anyone who thinks they do deserve any-would you feel the same if they killed someone in YOUR family ? I seriously doubt it. That's whats so funny about liberals. Everything is all about rights for the criminal and how horrible we are due to cruel treatment of criminals/terrorists. AWWW poor murderers! I want to know would you feel the same if it was your child, parent, spouse, sibling etc??

Answer 2

The "Supreme Court" didn't give the terrorists the same rights...the United States Constitution did.

Answer 3

It's about time. Terrorism is like the Salem witch hunt of modern times anyone can be accused of terrorism and detained without due process. Everyone thinks that when they hear the word terrorist they attribute it with the Middle East, but some americans were branded as terrorist and locked up without due process and abused. How would you like it if it was you or someone you love.

Answer 4

That's not what the Supreme Court said. They said that the President does not have the power to decide that certain people have no rights and to detain them indefinitely on that basis.

He is legally obliged to:
- charge them and try them;
- change their status to POW and hold them until hostilities are ended; or
- let them go.

That's the rule for everybody and no executive is exempt from the rule. The President is not a king. At least not yet.

Answer 5

You are either a liar or have badly misunderstood the ruling. That is not what it says. Maybe you should read it and have someone explain it to you, if necessary, before you start trying to tell others what the Court said. The real situation is much more complicated than you make it sound, and over-simplified debates don't really add much.

Answer 6

They were 100s of 1000s of men after WW2 that were in the same place. We did not give them or even think of it.

The men that are in question here. Were found on a Battle field fighting against the US. They were not fighting for any country or in a uniform. If It was 1943 they would have been shot.

Answer 7

About time. If you want to wage a global 'war' against the 'terrorists' (which is such a useless label, we are all terrorists in different ways) then you must respect rights. Its what makes us 'civilised', something people on this board should remember

Answer 8

I think that we should not permit terrorists/fear of terrorism to lower our standards of democracy or ethics. It's what separates "us" from "them," if you will. Fair & open trials conducted in accordance with due process is one of the cornerstones of American democracy. Have faith in our system. Justice will prevail and it will be accomplished in accordance with our democratic procedures. Isn't this better than doing it in secret without the fundamental cornerstones of American democracy properly put into the proceedings for the world to see?
If done in secrecy sans proper procedure, it would be no different than, for example, than how "justice" was delivered in Iraq, prior to the War.

Answer 9

If anyone can be denied rights in America, we all can be denied rights. The Constitution does not say all Americans are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. The neocons do, and the religious right does.

Answer 10

It is not about American rights, it is about human rights. They should be afforded the same treatment that we expect from other country's. While some other country's people do not recognize this, do you not think that lowering ourselves to their standards makes us them and they in a way have won. Bush has overstepped his authority on many occasions and should be held accountable to it himself.