Enemy combatants

[txglock21]

Well said! Don't worry, he will get what is coming to him according to the laws of the land.

[Dave2]

If we want our government to stand up for our rights under the Constitution, but not for his rights under the same document, then just what does it mean to be a US citizen? No matter what he has done (and I am just as upset as the next person), he is still a US citizen with the right to a trial. The right to hear the evidence against him. To be tried, convicted, and sentenced. If there is ample evidence he did what he is accused of, then there should be no problem getting him convicted. If we cry for his rights to be ignored, then what happens to ours? The hitch I see is just who wants to sit on a jury that gives the death sentence to terrorist. Courageous persons would be needed.

If we can't stick to our principles in tough times, then what's the point of having them?

[G26ster]

I didn't see anyone calling for no trial. He would get a civil trial even as an Enemy Combatant, and that declaration does not strip him of due process, at least according to the SCOTUS (8-1).

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority.

[hounddog]

Those jokers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but they're not totally stupid either. They may have figured out a great Trojan Horse. Using our own rule book, they can work their way into our beautiful country, and on paper be a citizen. But if you don't have it in your heart, you're just fartin' in the wind. Everyone knows that most of them hate our guts. They will stoop to the lowest of lows to weasle in here and kill as many of us as they can. I love our country, but I don't ever remember things being as crappy as they are right now. I don't follow a god that teaches you to kill everyone that won't switch to your way of thinking. Those people have patience, as long as they get to wreak havoc on us. They know that if they become citizens, they will be afforded our rights, and waste our taxpayer money, dragging their crap through our court systems. I try to live a Christian life, but I have to call a spade a spade. Sorry to get so wound up, just had to vent a little.

[Purplehood]

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It is a tough call, but he is a US citizen. At what point do we say you do or do not receive the Bill of Rights? They made the decision for criminal court so that is out.

Not tough for me....he lost ALL rights when he set that bomb off.

So how would you handle someone born and raised in the USA?

Just the same way. Timothy McVeigh proved he didn't want to be a citizen, so grant him his wish, after conviction, and Hassan is worse, HE should be declared an enemy combatant, a saboteur, and an enemy agent and stood against a wall and shot, upon conviction.

That seems to be a rather simplistic response. Shouldn't we do the exact same things to every mass-murderer, serial-killer/rapist in the USA? Or do we just tailor our justice towards certain categories of 'bad-guys'?