12-19-2005, 04:05 AM
kandrathe,Dec 18 2005, 08:30 PM Wrote:This is why after 9/11 many people talked about sacrificing liberty for security, and that we need to be careful not to over react. That means both sacrificing liberty driving down the road to dictatorship, and the wenging and hand wringing everytime a Jose Padilla gets swept off to an undisclosed prison. Have there been mistakes? You bet. Can it be 100% perfect? I don't know. But, given the choice between allowing Jose Padilla to carry out his terrorist missions, and mistakenly locking someone up for a while. I know which choice I would make. But, I would really want a mountain of tangible evidence, and an unbiased tribunal to make the decision.
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"Those who would sacrifice essential liberty for a small amount of security deserve neither and will soon lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
In all honesty, I think it's just plain wrong to imprison people (especially US citizens) as unlawful combatants and hold them in a military prison without being charged with a crime and with no judicial oversight. It stinks of military dictatorship.
After all, if we give up our rights to maintain "security," how can we even pretend to claim the moral high ground over our opponents anywhere?