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[Mike Riddle]

>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

<a href="http://laws.findlaw.com/us/327/1.html>Application of Yamashita, 327
U.S. 1 (1946)</a>

Read it with an eye to due process and particularly look at the dissent.

Not encouraging at all.

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