Who needs them?

[Ivo Skoric]

I am completely perplexed as to why does the US government 
need the military tribunals for terrorists?! I mean, if they already 
decided that anybody declared by the President to be a terrorist is 
as guilty as sin, denying those poor loosers any rights of due 
process (no open trial, no trial by jury, no right to chose a lawyer, 
no right to talk to anybody, no right to know all the evidence held 
against you, no right to appeal to an independent judiciary), holding 
them incomunicado at undisclosed places around the planet, 
preferrably such places that condone torture, WHY there is a need 
for tribunals at all? Military can just milk the information they need 
with stress and duress techniques out of the unfortunate suckers 
that got caught, and disappear them thereafter - who would know? 
This is simply a hipocrisy to allow for an illusion of justice, while 
there is really no intention to dispense it. The most fantastic 
aspect of the proposed tribunals is that even if the suspect is 
acquitted there is no guarantee that he would walk - he may be 
held continuously and indefinitely by the US authorities as a 
security threat. What exactly would then the acquital actually 
mean? And why on Earth would such a trial be neccessary to 
anybody but a few Washington's sanctimonious bureaucrats?

ivo