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  gamahuche1 month, 4 weeks ago

  FTA

  Meanwhile, to date, just six of the "enemy combatants" detained at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been charged with capital offences under the Military Commissions Act (MCA). They are being tried before military commissions on war crimes charges, and if convicted, face the death penalty.

  According to Alston, the United States has an obligation to provide fair trials which afford all essential judicial guarantees.

  "The fundamental principles of a fair trial may never be derogated from. But the text of the MCA, which provides the rules which govern the trials, and the experiences of those with whom I met during my mission involved in the trial process to date, indicate clearly that these trials utterly fail to meet the basic due process standards required for a fair trial under international humanitarian and human rights law," he added.

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    gamahuche1 month, 4 weeks ago

    So this so-called civilisation which we are supposed to be defending actually does not support any of the basic principles of a democracy - such as the presumption of innocence till guilt has been proved, fair trials, justice being done [and being SEEN to be done].

    Would we do worse by simply surrendering to the Taliban and let them chop heads off at random?

    Not a serious proposal!

    But how did the "moral high-ground" turn into this swamp of raw sewage?

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