NoNukes
Gold Member
You display your ignorance of the law. You don't assume guilt, you prove it. I hate terrorists just as much as you, but if they are American citizens even only in title, they still deserve their due process rights.
So, you think that enemy combatants should be left to kill Americans if they have not been convicted in a court of law?
What? No. I want them to be captured and brought to justice! I never said anything of the sort! What I said was you don't deny an American his day in court, no matter how heinous his crime might be. Our justice system is a system of discovery, not a system of summary punishment. You don't assume guilt until you prove it. You don't maintain innocence, you defend it. You have faith in the system that it will dole out a fitting punishment.
Face the facts, the 14th Amendment applies to any and all American citizens.
Sending in troops and risking fatalities when the enemy can be taken out with a drone is a bit ridiculous, although it may have been done if it was possible. An enemy is an enemy, pure and simple.
If a liberal started a thread defending these people, those of you on the right would be screaming bloody murder.