I think we can live up to the standard set by the Turks

June 10th, 2009 by Sonny

via How civilized, law-abiding countries imprison terrorists – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.

Glenn points out that recently Turkey and Germany both managed to use actual legal means to prosecute and imprison terrorists:

While the U.S. continues to debate whether it must imprison accused terrorists without charges or trial — and now even refuses to say whether it will release those who are given trials but then acquitted — numerous other countries are, with their actions, adhering to the values and principles which we, with words, righteously claim to embody…

…Numerous countries that aren’t the U.S. — including those targeted by Terrorist threats at least as serious as those faced by the U.S. — have routinely and repeatedly given what are called “trials” and “due process” to those it accuses not merely of harboring terrorist wishes, but also actually having carried out atrocious terrorist attacks. During the Bush era, even the U.S. — when we were moved to do so — successfully did the same.

But who needs legal means when you have a craven legislature that refuses to defend the Consititution and executives whose only concern about the the Constitution is how to best circumvent it?