From mriddle@monarch.papillion.ne.us Fri Jul 6 02:42:36 2018 From: Mike Riddle To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: None Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:42:36 +0000 Message-ID: <172289231600.3881296.12037249347422152507.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6862224897976064258==" --===============6862224897976064258== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >President Bush has quietly signed an executive order allowing civilians to >be tried by military tribunals. This may be outrageous. > >I say "may be" because the degree to which we should be outraged depends on >the details of this not-yet-released executive order. Does the executive >order apply only to non-U.S. citizens, as some news reports say? Perhaps it >applies only abroad, to Al Qaeda saboteurs trying to blow up U.S. military >bases? Does it apply solely to illegal immigrants? If it applies to people >living in or visiting the U.S. legally, what happened to our Sixth >Amendment right "to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury?" Look up APPLICATION OF YAMASHITA, 327 U.S. 1 (1946), http://laws.findlaw.com/us/327/1.html