The ink was barely dry on the last column concerning the damage that accommodating violent fanaticism does to our society when our very own government announced that it was planning to give the 9/11 co-conspirators an open hearing in civilian court
in downtown New York, no less! After hearing the jaw-dropping news, many people openly questioned, "Why would we do that?"
The idea of trying terrorists in a U.S. civilian court may appear noble on the surface, but upon closer scrutiny it is deeply disturbing to some. The concept of our constitutional rights being applied to noncitizens who disdain those very rights and...
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