US civil war
While this is a disturbing trend, the operative word is forign. We treated German and Japanese sabatuers the same way during the second world war. The military has a duty to deal with forign incursions into the homeland that are intended to do us harm. We captured and exicuted quite a few spies during the war without anyone hearing about it. This was not a constitutional violation beacause they were forign spies caught during wartime. Citizens caught doing the same thing however were given full jury trials just like anyone else. I am concerned that that that won't be the case this time, but other than rumors about patriot three, I haven't heard about the government quite crossing the line yet. Still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Determined to deal aggressively with the terrorists they expected to capture, the officials bypassed the federal courts and their constitutional guarantees, giving the military the authority to detain foreign suspects
While this is a disturbing trend, the operative word is forign. We treated German and Japanese sabatuers the same way during the second world war. The military has a duty to deal with forign incursions into the homeland that are intended to do us harm. We captured and exicuted quite a few spies during the war without anyone hearing about it. This was not a constitutional violation beacause they were forign spies caught during wartime. Citizens caught doing the same thing however were given full jury trials just like anyone else. I am concerned that that that won't be the case this time, but other than rumors about patriot three, I haven't heard about the government quite crossing the line yet. Still waiting for the other shoe to drop.